Understanding the far right's “cultural pedagogical battle” to contest the future of democracy
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Cultural Pedagogical Battle, Far Right, CPAC, Neo-fascism, blind | human rights | undergraduate education | prejudice., Ibero-America, Political Discourse AnalysisAbstract
This research analyses the narrative on education of the political forces united in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest and most influential far-right network globally. Using the Political Discourse Analysis (PDA) methodology, we examine the speeches of all members who participated in the last CPAC meeting in Argentina in 2024. The results indicate that they have forged a ‘public pedagogy’ that seeks to impact public debate on four levels: (a) anti-wokism, (b) Americanism and patriotism, (c) libertarianism, and (d) geopolitical reorganisation. We conclude that a pedagogical platform for social change is taking shape, conceived as the basic axis of the far right's ‘cultural battle,’ with which they attempt to turn extremist ideas, slogans, themes, and proposals into ‘common sense,’ some of which would have been unthinkable in the past. Their ideological and political banners, with which they seek to appeal to citizens around the world, constitute ‘authentic messages of freedom’ that ‘resonate and are familiar to all people,’ attempting to shape a new ‘meaning.’ The importance of this research lies in that it allows for a careful and systematic analysis of the cultural pedagogical strategy of neo-fascism in Ibero-America.
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