Miri Davidson
Assistant Professor in Political Theory
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I work on the history of political thought, with a focus on the far right, Marxism, twentieth-century French thought and anthropology. My current research focuses mostly on the intellectual history of the European far right. I am currently working on a monograph about the political philosophy of the radical right.
Teaching
From October 2026 to April 2028, I will be on research leave supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundation’s Ideas Workshop.
Recent Publications
(forthcoming) 'Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Ethnopluralist Imagination', Theory, Culture and Society.
(2025) with Chenchen Zhang, Gorkem Altinors, Priya Chacko, and Aliaksei Kazharski, and Sivamohan Valluvan, ‘The uses and abuses of the anticolonial in global reactionary politics’, International Political Sociology (forthcoming).
(2024) ‘On the concept of the pluriverse in Walter Mignolo and the European New Right’, Contemporary Political Theory 24: 469-489.
(2023) with Musab Younis, Maria Chehonadskih, Layli Uddin, and Dilar Dirik, ‘The Meanings of Internationalism: A Collective Discussion on Pan-African, Early Soviet, Islamic Socialist and Kurdish Internationalisms across the Twentieth Century’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 52(1) 135–157.
(2021) ‘The Primitive’, in Sara R. Farris, Beverly Skeggs, Alberto Toscano and Svenja Bromberg (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Marxism (London: SAGE Publications, 2021).
Essays & Reviews
(2025) ‘The Moral Economy of the Far Right’, The Ideas Letter 50.
(2024) ‘Sea and Earth’, Sidecar (New Left Review). Republished on E-Flux as ‘Decolonialism of the Far Right’.
(2023) ‘Jean Baudrillard Grasped the Symbolic Life of Capital but Lost Track of the Material World’, Jacobin.
(2019) ‘Speech Work’, Social Text Online.
(2018) ‘Anthropology beginning again’, Radical Philosophy 2.03.