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

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel explores the intersections of decolonial discourses, conspiracy narratives, and far-right and civilizational ideologies in post-socialist spaces. It examines how anti-colonial language, once a tool of leftist liberation movements, has been reappropriated across the center-right of the ideological spectrum in contemporary Russia and Eastern Germany. The four papers analyze the entanglements between these contemporary decolonial narratives and those developed in the Global South, tracing the transformation of Soviet anti-colonial discourse into broader anti-liberal thought and Russia’s positioning as a global anti-hegemonic power.

Sub Unit

• Religion, Philosophy

Papers

• 'In 1989, We Sparked the Revolution!': Legacies of 1989 and the Far-Right in Eastern Germany Today - Dorine Schellens, Leiden U (Netherlands)

• From Conspiracy to Decolonial Critique: Discourses on Neoliberalism and Resource Exploitation in Russia - Gulnaz Sibgatullina, U of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

• Ali Shariati and Contemporary Russian Civilizational Discourse - Maria Engström, Uppsala U (Sweden)

• Russia’s Rediscovery of its Soviet Anticolonial Language and its Adaptation to the Global South - Marlene Laruelle, George Washington U