Anna Krasteva
New Bulgarian University
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-03S-02
Abstract. How does one write about civic activism in a time of no activism, of fatigue, political impasse, and crisis after crisis? What has become most constant is the exceptional: crisis. It is to the latter that this essay is devoted. It addresses the question: How do elites and citizens address, use or lose political crises? The conceptual cluster of the analysis is built on the triad national populism, post-democracy, and crisis.
Keywords: elites, citizens, crisis, national populism
