Christopher Jackson – Linguistic Nationalism in Belgium @instituteofeuropeanstudies9439

Uploaded April 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

How did nationalism originally arise in a bilingual country such as Belgium? What is the future of nationalism in Belgium, and has English become the unofficial language of its capital Brussels? In this lecture, Christopher Jackson (De Anza College) investigates the rise of linguistic nationalism in Belgium, a country long divided along linguistic lines, and investigate whether Belgium is still a European microcosm—an EU avant la lettre.

Christopher Jackson – Linguistic Nationalism in Belgium

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