Nativism and Nostalgia in the Netherlands¹

This article scrutinizes the employment of temporality in nativist discourse. Looking at nostalgia context contemporary nativism reveals that operative is not limited to just past. The perception “threat,” central nativism, does only inform historical claims made by nostalgic nativists, but also refers present and future which this threat be overcome. After defining focuses on invocations national To what (imagined) times do nativists refer when they speak about “good old days”? What exactly perceived as attractive those days? next section deals with dystopian utopian future. As for empirical scope article, we focus two most influential representatives Dutch radical right: Partij voor de Vrijheid Forum Democratie. We conducted a discourse analysis textual verbal material from period between 2006 2021. By analyzing entanglements past, present, discourses, seeks enrich our understanding role plays dominant debates belonging.