LUNN seminar series - The Return of the Native: Navigating between Nativism and Liberalism

Abstract: Duyvendak will present his co-authored new book The Return of the Native (Oxford University Press, 2023) that explores the extraordinary rise of nativism in liberal settings, paying particular attention to nativist narratives that intertwine islamophobia, racism, populism and nostalgia. He will discuss the rise of nativism in France, the US and the Netherlands, focusing on striking similarities and small differences.

About the authors: Jan Willem Duyvendak is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Since 2018, he is also director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIAS-KNAW). In 2021, he was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and in 2022 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Co-authored with Josip Kesic, who is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES), University of Amsterdam, where he currently finishes his doctoral research European Peripheries: continuities, commonalities and conflicts in cultural stereotyping of Spain and the South-Slavic region. He also works as a researcher and lecturer at the Inholland University of Applied Sciences. Besides political nativism, his interests include cultural nationalism and imagology.

In collaboration with Timothy Stacey, who is Researcher and Lecturer at the Urban Futures Studio, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, Canada.