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1. Doing gender at the far right: A study of the articulations of nationalism and populism in Vlaams Belang's gender discourses.

Author

Gustin, Archibald

Subjects
NATIONALISM, GENDER, DISCOURSE, PRACTICAL politics
Abstract

Debates over the difference between populism and nationalism have been at the forefront of political research on the far right in recent years. This paper aims to provide an empirical support for the claim that nationalism and populism are two distinct phenomena by analysing the articulations of both discourses in Vlaams Belang gender politics. In this perspective, this paper starts by presenting Benjamin De Cleen and Yannis Stavrakakis's discursive-theoretical distinction of populism and nationalism (De Cleen and Stavrakakis 2017, 2020), before to introduce the literature on far right gender politics. The contribution then analyses Vlaams Belang's gender discourses by mobilizing this theoretical framework in order to show how this distinction can help us identifying the different dimensions underlying contemporary far right gender discourses. The article concludes by suggesting new avenues for a better understanding of the various discursive strands composing far right politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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2. De Catch 22 van het Wokedebat

Subjects
Woke, Anti-woke, Flemish nationalism, Mainstreaming, Radical right, N-VA, Discourse, far-right, Metapolitics, Vlaams Belang
Abstract

The anti-woke smear campaign does not merely legitimize a nationalist agenda, it injects far-right talking points into the mainstream

Published
2023

3. De Catch 22 van het Wokedebat: The Catch 22 of the Wok debate

Author

Maly, Ico and Rapid Social and Cultural Transformation: Online & Offline

Subjects
Woke, Anti-woke, Flemish nationalism, Mainstreaming, Radical right, N-VA, Discourse, far-right, Metapolitics, Vlaams Belang
Abstract

The anti-woke smear campaign does not merely legitimize a nationalist agenda, it injects far-right talking points into the mainstream

Published
2023

4. The rhetoric of the Flemish populist radical right party Vlaams Blok/Belang in a context of discursive struggle: a discourse‐theoretical analysis

Author

De Cleen, Benjamin, Communication Sciences, Applied Linguistics, and ECHO: Research group on media, culture and politics

Subjects
conservatism, authoritarianism, vlaams blok, vlaams belang, nationalism, discourse, populism
Abstract

I will present the results of my doctoral thesis on the rhetoric of the Flemish populist radical right party Vlaams Blok/Belang (VB). Empirical material for the talk is drawn from case studies of three moments of particularly fierce discursive struggle between the VB and its opponents: (1) the 0110 concerts for tolerance, a very large scale mobilisation against the VB, (2) the struggle between the VB and its opponents within the nationalist Flemish Movement for an annual nationalist singing festival, and (3) the struggle between the VB and the Flemish city theatres. I will discuss how the VB has used four main components - nationalism, populism, conservatism, and authoritarianism - in its rhetoric, applying these components together in a relatively stable but flexible, evolving, and sometimes contradictory manner. Throughout, I will pay particular attention to how the history of Flemish nationalism (and especially WWII collaboration) has often become articulated in the discursivestruggle between the VB and its opponents.

Published
2013

5. False notes. The VB and the struggle for the Flemish National Songfest as a struggle for the Flemish Movement (1991-1995)

Author

De Cleen, Benjamin, Communication Sciences, Applied Linguistics, and ECHO: Research group on media, culture and politics

Subjects
Flemish National Songfest, vlaams blok, vlaams belang, populist radical right, discourse
Abstract

The paper presents an analysis of the discursive struggle for the Flemish National Songfest between the Flemish populist radical right party Vlaams Blok/Belang and its opponents within the Flemish Movement in the period 1991-1995. The main focus is on how the VB's rhetoric is structured around a radical nationalism, whereas the VB's opponents' rhetoric is structured around the attenuation of nationalism's exclusive and authoritarian potentials.

Published
2012

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