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Contentious politics in the 21st century
Contentious politics in the 21st century
Recently, western democracies have been wracked by unanticipated swells of populism, ethnonationalism, and isolationism, all of which greatly unsettled the neoliberal, globalist, and multicultural trajectories many assumed were durable and determined.The shock produced by events like Brexit in the UK, Donald Trump’s victory in the USA, and the Alternative for Deutschland’s (AfD) rise in Germany -- and by association, the success of far-right European parties such as the Sweden Democrats, the Party of Freedom in the Netherlands, the National Rally in France, and the Brothers of Italy -- indicate that taken for granted cultural assumptions are being not only called into question but upended.The Code_Flux MSCA project approaches these developments theoretically as representing severe challenges to the foundational cultural elements that control, anchor, and organize liberal, western democratic social orders. Code_Flux examines the scope and intensity of these challenges.
Binary Cultural Codes (BCCs)
in contentious political discourse:
Binary Cultural Codes (BCCs)
in contentious political discourse:
To examine the scope and intensity of challenges to a collectivity's democratic principles, Code_Flux looks for the presence and usage of Binary Cultural Codes in political and civil discourses.
BCCs are words - or signs - that exert extraordinary persuasive power in political and civil discourse.
The BCCs operate as foundational, abstract cultural elements upon which more context-specific narratives and discourses are assembled.
Code_Flux investigates the roles the BCCs play in recent, highly contentious political events in Germany, the U.K., and the U.S.A.
BCCs of actors:
Code_Flux and Contemporary Cultural Sociology:
Code_Flux and Contemporary Cultural Sociology:
Code_Flux joins ongoing research addressing "the biggest unanswered question in the sociology of culture: Whether and how some cultural elements control, anchor or organize others."
Code_Flux reveals how the BCCs operate as foundational cultural elements controlling, anchoring, and organizing discourses in three sites of intensely contentious politics:
Code_Flux reveals how the BCCs operate as foundational cultural elements controlling, anchoring, and organizing discourses in three sites of intensely contentious politics:
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