De conservatieve revolte van de Vier van Višegrad (Tsjechië, Slowakije, en vooral Polen en Hongarije) is geen conflict tussen Oost- en West-Europa. Het is een symptoom van een tegenstelling die het hele continent bezighoudt. De hardnekkige Oost-West-tegenstelling is voorbij, en kan beter vervangen worden door die tussen een vooroorlogse en naoorlogse visie op Europa. http://www.donaustroom.eu/oost-europa-en-de-slechte-oude-tijd-essay/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guido-van-hengel-8312729/
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This article shows that employment of temporality in nativist discourse is not limited to just the past. The perception of “threat,” central to nativism, does not only inform historical claims made by nostalgic nativists, but also refers to the present and to the future in which this threat is to be overcome. After defining nativism, the article focuses on nostalgic invocations of the national past. To what (imagined) times do nativists refer when they speak about the “good old days”? What exactly is perceived as attractive about those days? The next section deals with the dystopian and utopian invocations of the future. We focus on the two most influential representatives of the Dutch radical right: Partij voor de Vrijheid and Forum voor Democratie. By analyzing the nativist entanglements of past, present, and the future, this article enriches our understanding of temporality in the dominant debates about national belonging.
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Jan Willem Duyvendak and Josip Kesic, with Timothy Stacey, explore how nativist logics have infiltrated liberal settings and discourses, primarily in the Netherlands as well as other countries with strong liberal traditions like the US and France. They deconstruct and explain the underlying logic of nativist narratives and show how they are emerging in the discourses of secularism (a religious nativism that problematizes Islam and Muslims), racism (a racial nativism that problematizes black anti-racism), populism (a populist nativism that problematizes elites), and left-wing politics (a left nativism that nativists themselves as a threat to national culture). By moving systematically through these key iterations of nativism, the authors show how liberal ideas themselves are becoming tools for claiming that some people do not belong to the nation. This book illuminates the resurgence of the figure of the "native," who claims the country at the expense of those perceived as foreign.
