Alienation and Knowledge: The Anthropocene and Human Development 2

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: SJES009 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC36 Alienation Theory and Research (host committee)

Language: English

Perceived powerlessness is often used to explain populism. However, do the powerless support populists? If so, why do they prefer voting for populists over abstaining from voting? Some researchers view support for populist ideology as a means for the powerless to gain empowerment and find solutions to their problems outside of the existing political system. Others, however, suggest that only those with a high level of political efficacy can support populists. Empirical research also yields contradictory results. We invite researchers with theoretical and empirical contributions to revisit the role of perceived powerlessness, one of the components of models of alienation, in the support for populist ideology. Of particular interest is research aimed at establishing causality between perceived powerlessness and populist support.
Session Organizers:
Ekaterina LYTKINA, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Germany and David EMBRICK, University of Connecticut, USA
Oral Presentations
The Powerless and the Elites
Andrew BLASKO, IPHS-BAS, Bulgaria
Do Llms Transform Alienation?: Human Consequences of Non-Human Language Developments
Sunjin OH, The University of Tokyo, Japan
The Alienation of Sociology from Its History
Vessela MISHEVA, Uppsala University, Sweden
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