Critical Research on Reactionary Politics
Researchers (broadly speaking) who work to tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics in an intersectional manner (racism, sexism, LGBTQ+phobia, classism, ableism etc) Please DM if you would like to be added.
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@aurelmondon.bsky.social
@mirandaioss.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University Interested in populationism, speculative ecofascist futures, reproductive and climate justice, cities, SF, creative & collaborative methods.
@handle.invalid
Activist: Queer Nation, ACT-UP, WHAM, BARF, clinic escort, Feminist. Queer Femme, Bastard/adult adoptee, T2D, Covid infuriated, masking. Spent the last couple decades researching wingnuts. A cranky Cassandra at times https://linktr.ee/laurensabinakneisly
@carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social
Constitutional law prof specializing in First Amendment, both speech & religion. Also repro Likes: art,science, feminism, LGBTQ rights, CRT, separation of church & state Things I've written: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=797431
@zetkincollective.bsky.social
The Zetkin Collective is a group of scholars and activists working primarily on the political ecologies of the far right.
@somabasu.com
Journalist turned researcher, teacher, fact-checker. 📚 Affect, digital politics, violence, imaginations, & pervasive game cultures. 🛠️ (Sensory) Ethnography, CDA-DHA, PAR PhDing: Tampere Uni 🇫🇮 Project: Muslims in India (Columbia, Princeton, Science Po)
@smrodriguez.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Gender, Rights and Human Rights @ LSE, Penal Abolitionist, Black disabled QT 🏳️⚧️🌍, Author of "The Economies of Queer Inclusion" | all views are my own www.smrodriguez.com
@norocel.bsky.social
🇫🇮🇸🇪 #Firstgen AssocProf at #Lunduniversity former #MSCA IF #ULBruxelles I use #intersectionality in 💻 #extremism & #radicalright #populism #welfarechauvinism #criticalbigdata #criticalAI
@michellelkahn.bsky.social
Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
@cffominaya.bsky.social
Dog lover, writer, human rights supporter, yoga lover, Ed in Chief Social Movement Studies, founding ed Interface, author of Democracy Reloaded (Oxford University Press), Prof. Global Studies, Aarhus U, PhD@UCBerkeley Book cover pic is by Olmo Calvo (crop)
@evansmithhist.bsky.social
Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian and southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own
@danancona.bsky.social
Daddo and married to @jenancona. Standing athwart history yelling, WTF. Research, writing, ads, and building processes for understanding and persuading across the Dem-left coalition.
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo.
@williamcallison.bsky.social
Political theorist and Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard. Political ecology and the far right w/ @zetkincollective.bsky.social
@mcneilwillson.bsky.social
Lecturer in critical extremism and global Muslim studies, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Leiden, Cambridge and European University Institute. Academic vagabond. Scottish Greens member. e: richard@mcneilwillson.eu
@drkatw.bsky.social
Third sector research by day, the German far-right by night. I like books, plants, knitting, and pretending that I'm going to start running again soon. My book, Women and the Alternative für Deutschland, is due in 2026. 🖥️: https://linktr.ee/drkatwilliams
@phenominal.bsky.social
You don't know me... but i unfortunately know a lot about climate denial, propaganda and rightwing disinformation
@etvpod.bsky.social
A #philosophy podcast for surviving the worst of all possible timelines. Hosted by ethicist Aaron Rabinowitz. Ethics director and credentialed creator at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org. Obsessed with luck. Sibling show: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/
@cat-tebaldi.bsky.social
Postdoc @ culture & computation lab | language & gender & far right | Still trying to make anti-fascist semiotics happen
@reedvanschenck.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Communication @ IE University. Researching reactionary digital networks and infrastructures. 🇺🇸 living in 🇪🇸 #TeamRhetoric #MediaStudies Views = mine
@aaronwinter.bsky.social
Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
@jessunderwood.bsky.social
Everyday politics, economic ideas and racism scholar. PhDone @ University of Warwick. GTA @ King’s College London. Political economist. PSA race, migration and intersectionality SG co-convenor.
@demonologian.bsky.social
Author: Passing Orders (Fordham). Rogue Academic. US Religious & Cultural Studies. Intersectional Demonologist. Infernal Epicene.
@gretajasser.bsky.social
Researcher | Political Science | Researching the far-right and misogyny online | Co-founder of @theIRMS
@gamingdemocracy.bsky.social
Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social and Joseph Dunne-Howrie @drjdunnehowrie.bsky.social are theatre scholars researching rightwing postdigital extremism through the lenses of gaming, conspiracies, and influencers.
@lubardab.bsky.social
MSCA postdoc @upf.edu. Formerly at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social & @weareceu.bsky.social. Odd bedfellows in politics, environment, everyday fascism. Author of Far-Right Ecologism. Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZQ2VTfIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=
@semacrae.bsky.social
Digital sociology ECR researching the interplay between education, politics and the digital. Previously worked in the UK public sector on drugs/sexual health policy and practice. Local library and heritage volunteer in my spare time. Own views. she/her
@ngamita.bsky.social
researcher studying influence ops & surveillance; open source, human rights, privacy & pro-democracy tech. lead: @thraets.org advisor: digitaldemocracyinitiative.net
@joemulhall.bsky.social
Director of Research @hopenothate. Writer, historian, journalist, anti-fascist. Latest book: Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance is out now!
@furtadoht.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social | Writes on trauma, war metaphors and present-day reactionary violence | Co-convener of reacpol.net | Author of https://shorturl.at/qODmp
@franamery.bsky.social
academic, feminist, illegal lesbian. abortions and sex changes for all co-convenor @reacpolrn.bsky.social
@chenchenzh.bsky.social
migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. she/her. 不必等待炬火. co-host @shichapodcast.bsky.social https://chenchenzhang.net/
@emmyeklundh.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff Uni. Researching populist parties and movements. Forthcoming book “Europe’s Populist Condition”
@reacpolrn.bsky.social
The Reactionary Politics Research Network brings together researchers to study and tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics Find us at: https://reacpol.net/
@aurelmondon.bsky.social
Researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social Reactionary Democracy w. @aaronwinter.bsky.social and co-editor of The Ethics of Researching the Far Right Full profile: https://shorturl.at/CiYKm