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Lars Cornelissen
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Researcher, editor, teacher

Author of *Neoliberalism and Race* (https://bit.ly/46bn07F)
Blogs at *Keeping Up With the Neoliberals* (https://bit.ly/3IhsnJk)
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September 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Author’s copies of my book have arrived! It looks even better IRL!

Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
A picture of eight copies of Neoliberalism and Race, sat on a wooden side table next to a plant
September 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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(2/3) ... For reasons I haven't been able to reconstruct, the first five or so volumes of the MQ sported on its back cover an advertisement from the University of Edinburgh asking alumni to donate money towards the upkeep of the uni's estate and facilities.
At no time in our history has the need for higher education been greater: at no time has the demand been more insistent, or the requirements more exacting. The scope and content of many aspects of scientific learning has more than doubled in the course of a generation; and with the growth of science a corresponding efficacy in the processes of general and humane education has become essential. The University of Edinburgh, conscious of the immensity and responsibility of its task, is painfully aware that its physical assets, in the shape of laboratories, classrooms, ancillary accommodation, and the necessary equipment, are inadequate and out of date. These things cost money. Though much will be provided from Government sources, the University itself will have to meet the cost of a substantial part of its building programme, which, over the next few years, will involve the expenditure of many millions of pounds. To this end it is making an Appeal to all its graduates and friends, and has aiready raised more than £363,000. Still more is required if our young men and women are to have the education they desire and deserve. All contributions will be most gratefully acknowledged, and full information on the University's needs and plans, with advice on methods of contributing, will gladly be sent on application to the Secretary to the University, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, 8
July 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Table of contents:
A screenshot of the table of contents for the forthcoming book, Neoliberalism and Race. It says: Acknowledgements: ix Introduction: 1 One: Liberalism or Barbarism: 21 Two: A Listless and Dejected Mass: 51 Three: Born Empire Builders: 76 Four: Race Is History: 107 Five: A Wonderfully Secret Code: 143 Conclusion: 183
April 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The paper is paywalled, unfortunately. We can send a link for free copies to those without institutional access - just DM myself or Carla

The paper will be part of a special issue on neoliberalism and fascism, ed by Henry Maher, which promises to be excellent!

Finally, here's the abstract
Abstract for the article, which reads: "This paper argues that a shared investment in racial hierarchy has historically formed a key point of convergence between neoliberal and far-right ideologies. To make this argument, the paper develops a close analysis of the career and works of Louis Rougier (1889-1982). Known principally as a prominent early free-market advocate who helped to organize the neoliberal movement in the interwar period, Rougier stands out from many other neoliberals by his lifelong connections to the French far right. The paper maps out these connections, focusing in particular on Rougier's links, first, to neo-fascist circles during and after the Second World War and, second, to the Nouvelle Droite as it emerged in the late 1960s. It then reconstructs Rougier's views on race, showing that he saw racial variables as a decisive factor in the historical ascendancy of Western civilization. Late in his life he took a keen interest in a body of racialist pseudo-science to support this view. The final section of the paper explores the ideological affinity between far-right and neoliberal ideology, arguing that Rougier's signally racialised conception of Western civilization was so closely aligned with both worldviews it was able to serve as a conceptual bridge. The paper concludes that this ideological affinity positions the far right as a more or less organic ally to neoliberalism."
March 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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We made some interesting discoveries, including that:

- the 1938 Lippmann Colloquium was funded by a fascism sympathiser,
- in the 60s Rougier moved in the same circles as Jean-Marie Le Pen
- in the 70s Rougier advocated for eugenics
Screenshot of a section from the 1973 issue of French far-right magazine Éléments in which Rougier is interviewed about abortion and eugenics. He argues that people should have the right to eugenics and that advances in medical science have created a danger of the 'genetic deterioration' of the human species. Screenshot of an advert from a 1965 far-right magazine that lists Louis Rougier and Jean-Marie Le Pen as having attended the same far-right gathering
March 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Here's the abstract
A screenshot of the abstract. The text reads: "The recent resurgence of exclusionary nationalism across the advanced capitalist world has caused historical scholarship on neoliberalism to reorient itself. Previous accounts of neoliberalism proved inadequate to theorize the hegemonic crisis that neoliberalism has been thrust into, prematurely rushing to declare neoliberalism dead. The task is to offer an interpretation of resurgent nationalism that can account for points of tension with hegemonic neoliberalism without underestimating the ways it lives on in the present. This essay critically reviews three books that offer distinct interpretations of neoliberalism’s enduring hegemonic crisis. If Melinda Cooper and Tehila Sasson’s respective works provide new critical perspectives on the history and present of neoliberal ideas, Jennifer Burns’s study offers an insider’s perspective on the pressures that neoliberalism is under from the nationalist right."
March 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM