This talk, based on the 2022 book with the same title, explores how diverse phenomena, such as populism, anti-black racism, and islamophobia in various countries share the same core: nativism. It Includes an in-depth, original analysis of political developments in three countries: the US, France, and the Netherlands, some of the most liberal countries in the world, and shows why liberalism is not a safeguard against the rise of nativism. The talk offers a distinct approach from alternate explanations of the rise of far-right nativist discourses.

Speaker
Jan Willem Duyvendak is the Director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) and Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). His main fields of research currently are belonging, urban sociology, 'feeling at home' and nativism.