Between radical orthodoxy and the turn to the empirical: a reply to Stacey

Abstract

This response to Tim Stacey’s paper agrees with Stacey’s assertion of the importance of narrative and myth to political culture but aims to challenge the notion that we need turn solely to the empirical and ethnographic to find resources outside of the Radically Orthodox in order to ground such an appeal. This is a reply to: Stacey, T. (2018) ‘Beyond populist politics: why conventional politics needs to conjure myths of its own and why it struggles to do so’. Global Discourse. doi:10.1080/23269995.2018.1524208