Lasse Thomassen is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics & International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the co-editor of Radical Democracy: Politics Between Abundance and Lack (2005) and the author of articles on, among other things, representation, radical democracy and post-structuralism.
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Published in: HomeWhat Bruce Springsteen can teach us about identity politicsIn the US and the UK, the left could learn something from Bruce Springsteen: to articulate a different narrative about collective identities – about how people 'lost control' – it must talk in a common language.
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Published in: HomeIdentity politics: everybody does it (and it’s ok too)If there is no way around talking about and invoking identities, we need to ask three questions: which identities? whose identities? and how do we think about identities?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Is there an Alternative for Denmark?The outcome of Denmark's general election on June 18 could depend heavily on the success of a radical new party called The Alternative.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spanish voters wake up to new political landscapeYesterday’s Spanish municipal and regional elections confirmed what the opinion polls have shown for the past year: the electorate is in a flux, and the voters punished the old parties and rewarded the new ones.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Andalusian TestLooking forward from the Andalusian test, the Spanish party system has been transformed. What used to be effectively a two-party system is now a four-party system.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?After Syriza: What’s next for Spain?Although Podemos are unlikely to win an outright majority in the general election, they have galvanised the opposition to the conservative government, while simultaneously challenging the parties of the old left.