Belgium’s Right-Wing Populists Defy Expectations Over Coronavirus
Belgium’s populists Vlaams Belang “bucks Coronavirus expectations by neither amplifying the sense of alarm or encouraging scepticism about experts”.
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Author: Judith Sijstermans
How Belgium’s Vlaams Belang Leads the Way in Digital Politics
Way forward for Belgium’s right-wing populist Vlaams Belang: continue pairing local and personal with virtual in its development of 21st-century mass party.
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What Happens When Right-Wing Populism Meets Gender Politics?
Women are underrepresented in right-wing populist parties but “gendered activism, policies, and images require more nuanced view & more considered response”
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Populism and Sub-State Nationalism Intersect in Belgium’s Flanders
What European politics can learn from Vlaams Belang, the right-wing party in Belgium’s Flanders: “a nationalist approach incorporated populist narratives”
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Vlaams Belang’s Populists Seek Lead of Belgium’s “Flemish Front”
How Belgium’s Vlaams Belang right-wing populist party, ostensibly opposing government, is mobilizing supporters to make itself voice of Flemish nationalism
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A “Great Identity Crisis” Complicates Belgium’s Colonial and Racial Reckoning
“Debates around Belgium’s colonial past remind us that ideologies of populist radical right parties in Europe shouldn’t be reduced to nativism.”
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