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Rita Abrahamsen

Professor
University of Oxford

Nelson Mandela Professor 2025-26
Rhodes University

Research Fellow


Centre for International and Comparative Politics
Stellenbosch University
About

New article in Current History

Radical conservatives increasingly see themselves as part of a global movement with a shared agenda—united by their perceived persecution by the same liberal forces.
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New book! Coming soon!

Advancing an innovative Bourdieusian-inspired analysis of global politics as interaction between transnational fields, this book places development in the context of contemporary transformations in world order
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Professorship of African Studies, Oxford

I'm delight to announce that I have been appointed to the Professorship of African Studies at the University of Oxford.
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New article on dystopia and the radical Right!

This new article in Global Studies Quarterly shows how the radical Right mobilizes dystopian narratives in the global culture wars
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World of the Right

The book is out! World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order.
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