From Conspiracy to Decolonial Critique: Discourses on Neoliberalism and Resource Exploitation in Russia

• In Event: Reclaimed Rhetorics: Right-Wing Appropriations of Decolonial Discourses in Post-Socialist Context

Abstract

This paper proposes a theoretical approach to understanding the overlaps between conspiracy discourses that emerged in Russia during the 1990s–2000s—claiming that Russia, through its integration into the global neoliberal market economy, was being transformed into a resource colony of the West—and decolonial discussions on land and resource exploitation in the Global South.

Author

• Gulnaz Sibgatullina, U of Amsterdam (Netherlands)