📣Book launch📣 Join us on Thursday 12th March (6pm GMT) for the launch of Europe's Populist Condition by @emmyeklundh.bsky.social. Sign up for this hybrid event below! reacpol.net/populist-con...

📣New interview📣 'Thatcherism has really never left us: the neoliberal dogma which her reign ushered in has become the common-sense of our present.' Maximillian Guarini discusses the visual demonisation of Jeremy Corbyn by the UK media. reacpol.net/political-vi...

Our launch of The Far Right and the Media: International Trends and Perspectives is coming up tomorrow! Sign up below.

The RPRN's two new publications are open for submissions! Red Lines is a space for political interventions on resisting reaction. The Reactionary Politics Working Paper series aims to publish cutting-edge scholarship on reactionary politics. Submit your work below! reacpol.net/publications/

📣Webinar announcement📣 Join us on Zoom (26th February, 12pm GMT) for a conversation in Spanish on 'Art, Memory, and Antifascist Genealogies' with Espe Pons and Jorge Marco.

📣New interview📣 @anthonypkelly.bsky.social discusses how the often antagonistic relationship between reactionary content creators and their audiences mediates exclusionary politics. reacpol.net/antogonism-i...

Just over a week to go until our launch of The Far Right and the Media: International Trends and Perspectives. Sign up below!

📣Online book launch 📣 Join us on Zoom (Feb 10, 7pm GMT / 11am PST) for the launch of The Far Right and the Media: International Trends and Perspectives, exploring how media systems shape the visibility and normalization of far-right ideas in today’s digital world. reacpol.net/farright-med...

We are now on Instagram! You can keep up with us over there at the link below. www.instagram.com/reacpol?igsh...

📣New interview📣 'Processes of democratic erosion started decades ago under neoliberalism, well before the current widespread concerns about polarisation.' @juanroch.bsky.social and @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social critique the polarisation hype. reacpol.net/polarisation...

📣New interview📣 'The more Palestinians are seen as modern-day Nazis, the easier it becomes to justify their killing.' Omran Shroufi examines Geert Wilders’ pro-Israel discourse and its influence on other far-right politicians. reacpol.net/wilders-proi...

'El componente de género de la política reaccionaria no es solo una represalia contra los valores progresistas, sino que es fundamental para construir la visión neoliberal y neocolonial de la extrema derecha internacional.' Entrevista con Natalia Marsicovetere reacpol.net/erosion-demo...

📣New interview📣 'The gender component of reactionary politics is not just a retaliation against progressive values, but is central to building the neoliberal, neocolonial vision of the international far-right.' Natalia Marsicovetere on anti-gender democratic erosion. reacpol.net/democratic-e...

📣New interview📣 'Terms like “detransitioner,” like “transitioner,” reduce people to the act of transitioning and frame transitioning as an extremist act or impulsive decision' @katfuller.bsky.social discusses transphobic moral panics on the far right. reacpol.net/moral-panic-...

Countering the trend towards fascism can take many shapes and forms but it cannot take the form of a blind faith support in the status quo and mainstream elite as has been argued for too long Some thoughts @reacpolrn.bsky.social on the latest developments in the UK reacpol.net/fascism-no-o...

📣New blog📣 'We must ask ourselves whether a liberal articulation of fascism is better than full fascism or whether both must be countered with equal vigour.' @aurelmondon.bsky.social on the mainstreaming of reactionary politics and the need for radical alternatives. reacpol.net/fascism-no-o...

With just a few weeks until publication, it's possible to pre-order my book in time for Xmas! For anyone who wants to read a decolonial approach to populism and understand why we are still so attached to the idea of 'populism' bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-popu... @brisunipress.bsky.social

📣 New blog 📣 'Anyone opposing racist policies risks being accused of not caring about women’s safety.' Victoria Scheyer discusses white feminism and femonationalism in the German context. reacpol.net/white-femini...

📣New Interview📣 'Moving from an immaterial feed to a poster on a street furnishes AfD’s claims with context and permanence.' @gsamaras.bsky.social discusses the mnemonic normalisation of the German far right through its visual politics. reacpol.net/mnemonic-nor...

📣New Interview📣 'Neoliberal ideology builds the structure, the structure rewards domination, and from that, both misogyny and microfascism take root.' @imrobwalker.bsky.social and Kay Sidebottom discuss neoliberalism, microfascism, and misogyny in classroom settings. reacpol.net/misogyny-fas...

Just one week to go before the submission deadline for the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social annual conference. You can submit your paper to the Reactionary Politics Specialist Group stream below! www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa-a...

ICYMI, check out @georgenewth.bsky.social's blog on the limits of Keir Starmer's 'patriotic' discourse and his ongoing enabling of the far right. reacpol.net/starmer-farr...

📣 New blog 📣 'Starmer’s intervention on the side of progressive values might be a welcome one, were it not premised on a dead duck narrative of “progressive patriotism”.' @georgenewth.bsky.social reflects on the limits of Keir Starmer's 'patriotic' discourse. theconversation.com/starmer-has-...

Core to reactionary politics is a cowardly project that aims to protect and restore privilege and hierarchies of oppression Some thoughts on terminology and the term reactionary @reacpolrn.bsky.social reacpol.net/on-reactiona...

📣Call for papers📣 If you are planning to attend the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social annual conference in Oxford (30 March-1 April), please consider submitting your paper to our Rectionary Politics Specialist Group stream at the link below! Deadline: 17th October. www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa-a...

That's a wrap! The second edition of the Reactionary Politics Summer School is over! Once again, it was incredibly energizing to share this space with critical, committed researchers from all over the world ❤️‍ More info about the RPSS below 1/ reacpol.net/summer-schoo...

📣New interview📣 'Sentiments that are popular in the manosphere—like the idea that women’s “purpose” is to serve men—have their roots in more “mainstream” norms and histories.' Meaghan Furlano discusses 'manosphere creep' in the context of Netflix's Adolescence. reacpol.net/manosphere-c...

📣New open access research article 📣 Our member, Meaghan Furlano, discusses how emotional and hermeneutic labour are presented in Netflix's Adolescence. Check it out below! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣New interview📣 ''Polarisation’ is used not only by those concerned with democratic erosion, but also by those seeking to protect ‘really existing (neo)liberalism’ from democratic critique' @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social discusses his critical approach to 'polarisation' reacpol.net/critical-pol...

📣New blog📣 'Thin is back in and whiteness is re-associated with rightness.' Our member, Meghan Furlano, on why Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle campaign is part of a wider cultural backlash. reacpol.net/sweeney-amer...

📣New interview📣 @paskokisic.bsky.social discusses how psychoanalytic theory can help us understand the contemporary far right and its normalisation. Check it out below! reacpol.net/psychoanalyt...

ICYMI check out @cburchett.bsky.social's interview on the far right's weaponisation of anti-antisemitism as part of their Islamophobic agenda. reacpol.net/weaponisatio...

'Fascism and the Women’s Cause offers a vital and unvarnished insight into the ways in which historical campaigns for women’s rights often intertwined with far right and fascist ideas about gender, race, class, and empire.' Thank you @drkatw.bsky.social and @reacpolrn.bsky.social for the review.

📣New interview📣 @uselesssimo.bsky.social discusses reactionary digital cultures in Morocco and their links to the global far right. Check it out below! reacpol.net/right-morocco/

📣New review📣 @drkatw.bsky.social reviews Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond's (@sisyphusa.bsky.social) 'Fascism and the Women's Cause', reflecting on the how tenets of women’s rights and agency are central to contemporary attempts to reinvigorate fascism. reacpol.net/fascism-wome...

📣New interview📣 @gsamaras.bsky.social discusses the Greek neo-Nazi party, Golden Dawn, and the limitations of legal repression in tackling the far right. reacpol.net/golden-dawn/

Only two weeks to go until applications for the Reactionary Politics Summer School close. Sign up below!

📣New interview📣 @cburchett.bsky.social discusses the weaponisation of anti-antisemitism by far-right parties and its role in their Islamophobic discourse. reacpol.net/weaponisatio...

"The coloniality of sexual violence tells us that white supremacy both enacts rampant sexual violence and projects it onto the Other." Alison Phipps reflects on sexual violence in racial capitalism in her interview with the RPRN. reacpol.net/sexual-viole...

'Being nominally a mainstream actor does not mean that one cannot support or implement far-right politics, espouse and promote far-right discourse or legitimise and embolden far- and extreme-right actors' reacpol.net/far-right-ma...

Applications for our Reactionary Politics Summer School are still open. The sessions will focus on how to understand, study, and disseminate research on reactionary politics. Sign up below!

ICYMI check out our interview with Reid Kleinberg on paleo-libertarianism in the US and its impact on contemporary politics. reacpol.net/paleo-libert...

Just over a month to go until applications for our summer school close! Apply below to develop your skills in researching reactionary politics.

'Moral panics are dangerous. Section 28 showed us this, and we clearly haven’t learned. It’s time for us to step up and stop this one in its tracks before more trans people get hurt.' @sandraduffy.bsky.social on the anti-trans moral panic in the UK reacpol.net/moral-panics...

Don't miss out on our second Reactionary Politics Summer School! Deadline for applications: 15 July

📣Applications for the second Reactionary Politics Summer School are open📣 The summer school provides a space to develop key skills for the research of reactionary politics. It will be hosted hybrid and attendance is free. Bursaries are also available. Sign up below! reacpol.net/summer-schoo...

Now online: Ep 29, w Rebecca Yeo @disabmurals.bsky.social ‬ The disabled people’s movement has long argued that preventing people from meeting their needs is disabling. Restrictions imposed on people in the immigration system disable people with existing impairments and create new impairments 1/7

📣New interview📣 @georgenewth.bsky.social discusses how to research, understand, and resist far-right politics in times of mainstreaming. reacpol.net/far-right-ma...

If you missed our talk with @jean23bean.bsky.social on 'Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies', you can now find the full recording on our YouTube channel below www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy4h...

📣New interview📣 Reid Kleinberg discusses the history of the paleo-libertarian movement and its influence on contemporary reactionary politics in the USA. Check it out below! reacpol.net/paleo-libert...