Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to the crisis‐driven accumulation of fictitious capital over recent decades. Mahmood Mamdani's critique of the settler–native binary and Moishe Postone's critique of romantic anti‐capitalism together illuminate how such nativist ideology privileges the ‘concrete’ over the ‘abstract’ — use value over exchange value — thereby reproducing an ideology that remains blind to the concrete historical totality from which this dualism arises and that can only flourish in the absence of dialectical mediation.
Source: Development and Change
DOI: 10.1111/dech.70082
Authors: Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,870
OpenAlex ID: W7203837015