The purpose of this article is to offer a feminist critique of populism, not as a distinct mode of politics, but as an analytical and political concept. As such, it seeks to redirect our attention away from populism, understood as a politics ‘out there’, towards the academic theoretical debates that have given this analytical term a new lease of life and propelled it beyond academic circles into the wider public discourse. In this context, the article develops two broad arguments. The first is that the two prevailing conceptions of populism are marred by anaemic conceptions of power, collective agency and subjectivity and, as such, are unable to present us with a convincing account of why this form of radical politics emerges in the first place, who its protagonists are, and how they come together in collective struggle. The second is that our current frenetic deployment of the term as a blanket descriptor for radical politics of all persuasions does not bode well for feminism politically. For both reasons, I conclude that feminists need to resist the current ‘populist hype’.

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抵制“民粹主义炒作”：对全球化概念的女权主义批判

本文的目的是提供对民粹主义的女权主义批判，不是作为一种独特的政治模式，而是作为一种分析和政治概念。因此，它试图将我们的注意力从被理解为“外面”的政治的民粹主义转向学术理论辩论这为这个分析术语赋予了新的生命，并将其推向了学术界之外，进入了更广泛的公共讨论。在这种情况下，本文提出了两个广泛的论点。首先，两种流行的民粹主义概念都被权力、集体能动性和主观性的贫乏概念所破坏，因此，它们无法令人信服地解释为什么这种激进政治形式首先会出现，谁它的主角是谁，以及他们如何在集体斗争中走到一起。第二个是我们目前对这个词的狂热部署，作为对所有信仰的激进政治的概括性描述，对于女权主义来说并不是一个好兆头政治上. 出于这两个原因，我得出结论，女权主义者需要抵制当前的“民粹主义炒作”。