"الشعب" إلى أين الشعبوية ؟ : الشعبوية و الأيديولوجيا و التنازع السياسي على الرياضة

Abstract EN

This study explore the concepts of populism and "the people," linking them to ideology, hegemony, and the making of modern sport in Western liberal-capitalist democracies.

While populism is widely seen as a useful way to understand oppositions between "the people" and elites, This study particularly interested here in what happens when self-styled populist political leaders actually govern, ostensibly on the people's behalf.

To illustrate this, the study consider two examples of self-styled populist leaders from different eras - Benito Mussolini and Donald Trump - that have used sport to promote narrow, ideologically laden, conceptions of "the people." Through these examples the study argue that the concept of populism on its own does not provide a comprehensive understanding of political and cultural struggles in sport today, nor does it provide adequate guidelines for oppositional political strategies.