Hegemony, between theory and political action. Interviews with Iñigo Errejón, Lasse Thomassen and Yannis Stavrakakis

Abstract

Thirty years after the publication of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, we publish in this Social Window a series of interviews with three leading figures in the contemporary debate around the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, and their political influence. After the political and discursive changes that led to the irruption of anti-austerity demonstrations in many European countries, and the successive rise of political parties such as PODEMOS in Spain and Syriza in Greece, the objective is to investigate the value of both heuristic and political concept of 'hegemony', as well as the connection between theory and praxis, between the 'radicalization' of democracy - in the sense of Laclau and Mouffe - and the contemporary political scene.

Hand in hand with these three personalities - Iñigo Errejón, Lasse Thomassen, and Yannis Stavrakakis - we try to give answers to a series of central questions for this issue of International Relations, and at the same time offer interpretative paths of the European reality.