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...

New article by me in @aunz.theconversation.com which discusses how explaining March For Australia *solely* in reference to 'extreme' actors provides an alibi to the racism + nationalism of 'mainstream' Australia: theconversation.com/blaming-extr...

New article by me: The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it’s been enabled by the mainstream | Liam Gillespie www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New blog post with @identitiesjournal.bsky.social on my recent article:

New article out with Sahar Ghumkhor and Sean McMorrow! Here, we offer a critique of dominant approaches to understanding the spread of racist conspiracy theories. Open access: doi.org/10.1057/s412...

With reactionaries, as always, hypocrisy is always the point They can literally disappear people for a tattoo or expressing an opinion and call it justice but stealing millions from the public purse is an "bookkeeping error" and the sentence a "witch hunt"

My @nehgov.bsky.social grant “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” was canceled by “DOGE.” The project doesn’t support "the furtherance of the President's agenda.” Jews surviving genocide: out of step w/ the agenda of using Jews to destroy higher ed.

I did an interview with @reacpolrn.bsky.social about my article on 'gender critical' biopolitics: reacpol.net/gendercritic...

New article day! My latest piece on the nomophilia of Sovereign Citizens and their critics. Open access: doi.org/10.1177/0964...

📢New Blog 📢 Our member, @odiloncaldeira.com, discusses the rapid development of neofascism in Brazil and the future of Bolsonarism. reacpol.net/brazil-neofa...

📣New blog📣 Our member, @calderarocha.bsky.social, discusses her recent article on the appropriation of feminism by a far-right women's collective of 'identitarian feminists.' Check it out below! reacpol.net/farright-fem...

This is about Columbia bowing to authoritarianism but hello hasn’t this degradation also been a slow burn? The long kowtowing of universities to political and market demands. The “event” of capitulation happens because the groundwork is there www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...

ICYMI check out our timely interview with @emmyeklundh.bsky.social and Sebastián Ronderos about their paper on the role of affect and fantasy in political identification. A must-read for anyone working on reactionary politics!

📢Webinar announcement📢 Our ethics of researching the far right webinar with @crexuio.bsky.social and CASEI returns on Thursday 20th March with a session on memory and far right studies. Check out the full details and our line up of great speakers below! reacpol.net/webinar-6/

I see experts warning & writing about the mainstreaming of the far right. It's already happened & should not have taken a nazi salute & overt fascism to see it. If you think counterextremism or liberal centrism are solutions, you have not really been paying attention. Better late than never though.

For those who doubt that the US would ever deport US citizens.

Excited to see this out! I spoke with @reacpolrn.bsky.social about my recent article on the mainstreaming of the far right:

I do appreciate the call to sign our solidarity into actions pushing to save ‘science in the US’. The call issued by the academic community in France is ‘endearing’ given that the scholasticide in Palestine ongoing for over a year & more hasn’t sufficed to strike a chord in our hearts.

i hope academics understand very clearly that columbia didn't lose their funding because of protesters against genocide. if they honestly think that, then they're going to get gutted by fascists who played them like the fucking fools they apparently are.

📣New Blog📣 Our member @aaronwinter.bsky.social discusses Elon Musk's Nazi salutes and how reactionaries have sought to redefine fascism for their own ends. Check it out below! reacpol.net/musk-fascism/

The liberals now starting to realise it was never really a bulwark, American democracy was founded on and reinforces racism, and the far right is part of that system ... Better late than never. It'll be forgotten by next election (midterms).

Columbia University thought there wouldn’t be any material consequences as long as it appeased those in power.

Important argument on how the frame of "mainstreaming" risks creating an illusion that all the things the far right stands for in terms of social inequality and violence are ontologically distinct or even alien to liberal democracies... They are not.

'On the proximity of the far right and the misuses of the ‘mainstreaming’ metaphor' by @liamgillespie.bsky.social New from #Identities, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070...#Identities,#OpenAccess:@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Article from me on the criminalisation of racist symbols/gestures. In short, criminalisation is problematic and plays into the hands of groups like the NSN... pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/we-...

Turns out a bipartisan effort to lock up and traumatise more kids in adult police cells leads to more kids - mostly First Nations kids, mostly kids living with disabilities - locked up and traumatised in adult police cells. We must do better in VIC. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

UniMelb has at least 14 staff with pay packets over $500k. That’s more than the Premier of Victoria. And yet all of our staff research and engagement budgets have been reduced to $0 in the Faculty of Arts this year www.smh.com.au/national/hig...

I can't believe this still has to be said but you don't have to take far-right leaders at their word They may claim they care for "the people" but their politics are elitist by nature and as such particularly prone to oligarchic behaviour Meloni, Trump, Farage, Le Pen are in it for their clique

Artshub article about AI music and far right hate www.artshub.com.au/news/feature... with comment from me, @heyouonline.bsky.social @liamgillespie.bsky.social

The idea police could enforce 'social cohesion' reveals exactly what it means to those currently mobilising it...

Nothing says "social cohesion" like a brutal police crackdown...

Cassie Pedersen & I have written for the University of Melbourne's Pursuit about how #COP29 demonstrates that we urgently need to address the role of men and masculinities in the climate crisis, and engage with boys and men about caring for the world around us: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/its...

really great analysis of climate change and masculinity from Stephen Burrell @thedailypanda.bsky.social and Cassie Pederson: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/its...

Great to soon have a book on sociological approaches to violent extremism. An important resource for research and teaching. Great to be part of it as well: Ch9 Far-Right Extremism and the Sociology of Race and Racism. Thanks to the editors @surajlakhani.bsky.social & @amaramarasingam.bsky.social

Thrilled to share the cover of the ed. collection @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and I have authored! This book brings together a wonderful lineup of chapters, each offering a sociological lens on the complex issues surrounding violent extremism. Available soon! A thread introducing the chapters...

'Even critical appraisals of mainstreaming – which generally implicate not only the far right, but the mainstream as well – can work to ontologize the far right and mainstream as distinct, separable entities' Excellent article by @liamgillespie.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to have this out! New article in @identitiesjournal.bsky.social which examines how work on far right ‘mainstreaming’ can sometimes paradoxically exceptionalise the far right even as it attempts to explain how it has become un-exceptional. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I wrote about the flag wars 2 years ago but here we go again: overland.org.au/2022/06/behi...