Liwen Zhang

Performing the People and Depleting the Commons: Bottom-up Populism in Canada and France

This study examines how ordinary citizens construct and circulate populist discourse through social media, comparing two cases of bottom-up populism: Canada’s Freedom Convoy and France’s Yellow Vests movement. Drawing on grounded theory and mixed-method content analysis of 4,725 Facebook threads, the study identifies three production strategies—labeling, lin