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Duncan McDonnell
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Professor of Politics | 🇮🇪🇦🇺| Australian Research Council Future Fellow | populism and party youth wings | https://duncanmcdonnell.com/

Political science 78%
Sociology 10%
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I'm thrilled to see @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & I have won over $825,000 in funding from the Australian Research Council for our Discovery Project "Generation-Z engagement with political parties".

(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).

Thanks Luca!

I'm still jet-lagged from South America so getting on a plane was the last thing I wanted to do, but...once I arrived, it was good to be in Melbourne at the AusPSA conference and catch up with old friends.

And today I had the pleasure of presenting in front of living Australian legend Antony Green!

Also coming very soon (i.e. in 4 hours), I'll be speaking on this AusPSA panel on populism, with a star cast of @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Rachel Busbridge, @benmoffitt.bsky.social (and me).

If I can somehow manage to have a nap before then, I'll be the happiest person in Melbourne.

Thanks Hugo!

A rare benefit of being awake in the middle of the night (day 10 of jetlag!): you get to see this drop into your mailbox.

Coming soon, by @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me, in Political Geography.

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Having won this last year, there are few people I'd be happier to see take the title than Ben Moffitt - a truly world-class researcher and a nice guy too!
Rather gobsmacked & honoured to find that I have been named Australia's top researcher in political science by The Australian!
www.theaustralian.com.au/special-repo...
www.theaustralian.com.au
Rather gobsmacked & honoured to find that I have been named Australia's top researcher in political science by The Australian!
www.theaustralian.com.au/special-repo...
www.theaustralian.com.au

And if that's still too long to read, here's a recent thread by Josh about our study:

bsky.app/profile/jhol...
🎉 New publication out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with @duncanmcdonnell.com and Michelle Evans!

We expected public bias to work against aspiring Indigenous political candidates in Australia. Instead, we found the opposite - an 'inverted hierarchy' of bias.

Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

I didn't have “walking back from the supermarket into the middle of Kaiser’s rally” on my agenda for this evening in Santiago…

That's so annoying.

I have a grumpy middle-aged man theory that general rudeness in terms of not replying to emails and/or not showing up has increased since Covid (and from people of all ages).

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It was a pleasure to give a seminar at the Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba last Friday about our research (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) on the transnationalisation of the populist right.

Thanks to Oscar Gracia Landaeta, Andrés Laguna-Tapia & Claudia Muriel for being excellent hosts 💕
🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆

'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social

How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots
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Tomorrow at UPB in Cochabamba: our final presentation of what has been an excellent South American fieldwork and seminars trip.

I'm looking forward to meeting the faculty and students, seeing a new city, and being at a lower altitude than La Paz for a couple of days.
All good things come to an end 🥲

The last seminar of our South American trip (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) will take place at Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba, this Friday.

Looking forward to further exchanges about the transnationalisation of the PRR with UPB students and colleagues!

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All good things come to an end 🥲

The last seminar of our South American trip (w/ @duncanmcdonnell.com) will take place at Universidad Privada Boliviana in Cochabamba, this Friday.

Looking forward to further exchanges about the transnationalisation of the PRR with UPB students and colleagues!

It was a pleasure to present today at PUCP in Lima with @ammassarisofia.bsky.social about our research on the transnationalisation of the populist radical right.

Great audience participation & such impressive students too.

Now we have a couple of much needed days off and then move on to Bolivia!

Not at all! The first thing I'd be doing after they confirmed the flights is getting on to 'manage my booking' to make sure I had the seat I wanted.

Coming up tomorrow, at PUCP in Lima:

Grazie!

Thanks Nacho!

Thanks Ben!

Thanks Stefano!

Grazie!

Thanks Cas!

Grazie Gabriele!

Coming up next Thursday at noon in Lima: @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & I will be presenting our research on the transnational populist right at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

I'm looking forward to good discussions and the local ceviche.

(states of emergency etc. permitting, of course).

It was. Not sure whether, overall, it was a better experience than the Flamengo home game a few weeks ago. But definitely worth it.

And, in a few hours, I'll know if it's been a perfect football weekend...

Next time.

And I also want to go to La Monumental (which, to my surprise, was across the road from the Torquato di Tella university where we did a seminar the other day).

Basically, all things considered, I need to come back to this city for at least a month.

La Bombonera yesterday evening.

I’ve been to lots of big games, including all 4 Italian derbies, but I’ve never seen a curva like that. Constant singing for 90 minutes, even when Boca conceded goals. Just amazing.