Culture wars in Belgium? The (meta)political implications of far right discourse on cultural warfare for activists and CSO’s in Flanders

This paper investigates how far right actors using the term ‘cultural warfare’ imagine activists and CSO’s. Drawing on post-foundational discourse theory, it presents a critical discourse study of articles published in Flemish nationalist online media, focusing on their metapolitical implications. In metapolitical conflict, imaginaries of what politics is and should be clash. Activism is understood as a form of political engagement where actors (re)imagine, (re)articulate and (re-)negotiate social relationships and different forms of capital, through imagined collective action. Flemish nationa... Mehr ...