#RethinkingPopulism Lead Editor; Senior Fellow, LSE Middle East Centre
Spyros founded #RethinkingPopulism and is its lead editor. He is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Centre of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
His research explores the intersection of societal insecurity, identity and collective action and, to date, it has focused on Turkish politics and society, nationalism and populism in Europe and the Middle East, urban citizenship in the Middle East, European Muslim identities and politics, and the theory of populism.
His latest book – Turkish Politics and ‘The People’: Mass Mobilisation and Populism (Edinburgh University Press) – revisits the concept of populism through an exploration of the political uses of the notion of the people in contemporary Turkey and the emergence of populism and its genealogy as a tradition of action and discourse.
His other publications include Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe (Routledge), Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey (Hurst and Oxford University Press), and Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks (Palgrave).
He has a PhD in Politics from the University of Copenhagen and a BSc in Politics and International Studies from Panteion University and has previously worked as Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Lund, Kingston and Portsmouth Universities.
articles in #Rethinkingpopulism
- The Turkish election as a warning against the irresistible charms of populism
- Charting the waters: populism as a gendered phenomenon
- Bringing gender into the populism debate: a guided walk
- Situating populism beyond the deformation of Eurocentric and post-democratic narrative
Rethinking populism 