Three Types of Culture Wars and the Populist Strategies in Central Europe

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2021-2-130" target="_blank" >10.5817/PC2021-2-130</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Three Types of Culture Wars and the Populist Strategies in Central Europe
Original language description
Since the 'migration crisis' in 2015 at the latest, the politics of a broadly conceived Central Europe has been marked by conflicts over symbols, values and norms. Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Austria, and the Czech Republic have witnessed divisive debates and campaigns over refugee quo- tas, women's and gay rights, abortion laws and public monuments. As the term 'culture wars' was becoming ubiquitous, it remained ambivalent in its meaning and usage. The aim of this article is to identify a political logic of recent Central European cultural conflicts without leaning solely on the ideological explanation, e.g. the anti-liberal backlash thesis of Rupnik, and Krastev and Holms. By borrowing R. Brubaker's conceptualizations of identity and populism, the article contends that it is possible to analyze culture wars as a repertoire of a populist political style. To do so, the article de- velops a critical perspective on culture wars, defined as polarizing conflicts in the arenas of the pol- itics of memory, politics of identity and politics of morality. Culture wars are analyzed as a strategy of re-politicization of memory (especially of World War II), (civilizational) identity and public morality and a code used in struggles for political and cultural hegemony.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-18675S" target="_blank" >GA18-18675S: Culture wars and national secularisation processes in Central Europe</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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