Debates to invent an exceptionality: the concept of populism in Colombia and its relation to violence (1970-2010)

This article analyzes the debates on the definition of the concept of populism in Colombia and its relation to the concept of violence between 1970 and 2010. Following the footsteps of certain intellectuals and their hypotheses on violence, we also believe that this came as a consequence of several populist phenomena that did not come to power, such as gaitanismo and anapismo, or as antecedents of those that did, as in the case of uribismo. In our opinion, this link between populism and violence constructed by the authors is a fundamental part of the invention of Colombia as an exceptional case in Latin America. The work is developed thanks to different perspectives of the new intellectual history and tries to reconcile some of its theoretical and methodological tools to think of its own object of study and approach it from its own dimensions.