1. Jan Willem Duyvendak Studium Generale Wageningen September 19th, 2018
The Consequences of Nationalism.
The Rise of Progressive Nativism
in the Netherlands
Jan Willem Duyvendak
Studium Generale Wageningen
September 19th, 2018

2. A Multicultural, Progressive, Tolerant Country?
No multicultural policies
History of pillarization: the Netherlands as one of the most conservative and religous countries in Western Europe till 1960s
The enormous impact of the 1960s: liberation and secularization
After 1960s: increasing cultural consensus (a superdiverse society?)
Pivotal role for gender and sexuality
From tolerant to intolerant monoculturalism
The culturalization of citizenship

3. Gender and Sexuality 94 % of the Dutch in favour of gay marriage
All political parties -including the far-right populists, the Christian-Democrats and right-wing liberals- strongly supportive for gender and sexuality equality (at least on a discursive level)
In opposition to Muslims who are supposed to be against gender and sexual equality
LGBT and women’s rights as the core of Dutch identity, of Dutch nativism
No place for Muslim LGBTs or Muslim feminists

4. Forms of Nativism Religious nativism (instead of Islamophobia)
Populist nativism (instead of populism)
Racist nativism (instead of racism)

5. Putting the Dutch in Perspective
The Netherlands as a radical case
But same tendencies in many European countries: the return of the native
Some more in terms of gender equality, others more focused on (homo)sexuality
Part of a global polarization: North-West versus South-East
Gender and sexual equality not in terms of universal human rights but in ‘North-Western/modern’ versus ‘South-Eastern/traditional’