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Reactionary Politics Research Network
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The Reactionary Politics Research Network (RPRN) brings together researchers to study and tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics

Find us at: https://reacpol.net/
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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!

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Publications - Reactionary Politics Research Network
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Our launch of The Far Right and the Media: International Trends and Perspectives is coming up tomorrow!

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📣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.

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Book Launch: The Far Right and the Media - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Book launch of The Far Right and the Media, edited by Imogen Richards.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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/
Publications - Reactionary Politics Research Network
reacpol.net
February 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
📣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.
February 4, 2026 at 9:21 AM
📣New interview📣

@anthonypkelly.bsky.social discusses how the often antagonistic relationship between reactionary content creators and their audiences mediates exclusionary politics.

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Interview: Conceptualising the Role of Audience Antagonism in the Mediation of Reactionary Politics (Anthony Kelly) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Anthony Kelly’s article, “On the Interface of Influencers and Antagonists: Conceptualising the Role of Audience Antagonism in the Mediation of Reactionary Politics.” (2025)
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February 2, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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...
Book Launch: The Far Right and the Media - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Book launch of The Far Right and the Media, edited by Imogen Richards.
reacpol.net
February 2, 2026 at 4:02 PM
📣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...
Book Launch: The Far Right and the Media - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Book launch of The Far Right and the Media, edited by Imogen Richards.
reacpol.net
January 28, 2026 at 12:04 PM
We are now on Instagram! You can keep up with us over there at the link below.

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January 14, 2026 at 8:06 AM
📣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.

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Interview: On polarisation hype (Juan Roch and Daniel Balinhas) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Juan Roch and Daniel Balinhas’s article, “A critique of the polarisation narrative: expanding the limits of democracy, parties and political participation.” (2025)
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January 14, 2026 at 8:01 AM
📣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.

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Interview: The discursive tenets of Geert Wilders’ pro-Israelism (Omran Shroufi) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Omran Shroufi’s paper, “A critical discourse analysis of Geert Wilders’ pro-Israelism.” (2025)
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December 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
'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

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Entrevista: La erosión democrática en clave antigénero (Natalia Marsicovetere) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Entrevista con Natalia Marsicovetere basada en el estudio de caso: “La erosión democrática en clave antigénero: la influencia de los actores conservadores españoles en Guatemala”
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December 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
📣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.

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Interview: Democratic erosion through an anti-gender lens (Natalia Marsicovetere) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Natalia Marsicovetere's report 'Democratic erosion through an anti-gender lens: the influence of Spanish conservative actors in Guatemala' (with T. López, 2025)
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December 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
📣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.

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Interview: Moral panic: Transphobia, gender ideology and far-right conspiracy (Kat Fuller) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Kat Fuller's chapter 'Moral panic: Transphobia, gender ideology and far-right conspiracy' (2025, w. Q. McLamore)
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December 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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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

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Article: In the fight against fascism, the middle ground is not an option (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Aurelien Mondon discusses the rise of fascism in the UK in the wake of yet another extreme right protest.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
📣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.

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Article: In the fight against fascism, the middle ground is not an option (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Aurelien Mondon discusses the rise of fascism in the UK in the wake of yet another extreme right protest.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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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'
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Europe’s Populist Condition
Europe’s Populist Condition; Challenging the notion that populism is an anomaly in European politics, this book argues that the main threat to democracy is the exclusionary nature of European democrat...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📣 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.

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Article: White feminism and femonationalism in Germany (Victoria Scheyer) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Victoria Scheyer explores the role of white feminism in the mainstreaming of reactionary politics in Germany.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
📣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.

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Interview: Mnemonic normalisation in the visual politics of the German far-right (Georgios Samaras) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Georgios Samaras's article 'Mnemonic normalisation in the visual politics of the German far-right' (2025)
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October 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
📣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.

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Interview: If you tolerate mis(ogyny), then fascisms will be next (Rob Walker) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Rob Walker and Kay Sidebottom's article 'If you tolerate mis(ogyny), then fascisms will be next: rewriting the classroom script through affirmative ethics' (2025)
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October 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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!

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October 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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.

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October 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
📣 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.

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Starmer has enabled the far right – promises of ‘progressive patriotism’ are no longer enough
After the unite the kingdom rally, the flag raising campaigns of recent weeks now look like astroturfing.
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September 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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

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Article: On reactionary politics (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Aurelien Mondon explores the meaning of reactionary politics and its use in our current context
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September 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
📣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.

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PSA Annual Conference | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
Political Studies Association 76th Annual International ConferencePSA26: Political Studies Futures30 March – 1 April 2026, Oxford Join us in Oxford for PSA26 to discuss 'Political Studies Futures'Our ...
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September 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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

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September 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
📣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.

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Interview: Manosphere creep in Netflix’s Adolescence (Meaghan Furlano) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Meaghan Furlano's article 'Manosphere creep: Emotional and hermeneutic labour in Netflix’s Adolescence' (2025)
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August 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM