This book investigates the interconnections between populism and neoliberalism through the lens of postcolonialism. Its primary focus is to build a distinct understanding of the concept of populism as a political movement in the 21st century, interwoven with the lasting effects of colonialism.

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Populism and postcoloniality: Geopolitical experiences; 1. Populism, religion and the many faces of colonialism: Ongoing struggles for "the people"; 2. Parody, satire and the rise of populism under postcolonial criticism: A French and an Italian case; 3. Neoliberalism and Populism in Argentina: Kirchnerism and Macrism as the two side of the same coin; 4. Vox of whom? An assessment of Vox through discourse analysis and study of the profile of its social base; 5. From Jorge Eliécer Gaitán to Alvaro Uribe: A brief exploration of populism in Colombia; 6. The social question in the twenty-first century: A critique of the coloniality of social policies; 7. Losing the battle to take back control? Clashing conceptions of democracy in the debate about Brexit; 8. Populism and neoliberalism in Chile; 9. The game of disillusion: social movements and populism in Italy; 10. Intercultural critical reflections on postcolonialist-decolonialist and populist theories from Latin America and Ecuador; 11. Populism: The highest stage of neoliberalism of the twenty-first century?; Index