Articulating metalinguistic and political awareness in Flemish discourses on integration and allochthony

This article focuses on the way actors involved in the Flemish minority debates construct alternative modes of subjectivity and political awareness in the debate on the integration of ‘allochthon’ minority members. Resistance to hegemonic discourse requires articulatory practices marked by a high degree of metalinguistic awareness. This type of awareness is necessary in order to distinguish between preferred and disavowed modes of activism and subjectivity. Through his analyses of the decision of newspaper De Morgen to ban the notion of ‘allochthony’ and of an interview with a former Arab Euro... Mehr ...