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Aaron Winter

@aaronwinter.bsky.social
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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

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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: Liberty Investigates and The Guardian discover British Transport Police’s initial six-month trial of live facial recognition tech in London’s railway stations: - cost more than £320,000 - took nearly 100 hours of police time - resulted in no arrests www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 11h
'Religification, racialization and romantic partners' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Tahseen Shams Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 12h
Great to chat with @owenjones.bsky.social about the Danny Thomas arrest and mainstreaming of the far right. 'Far Right Activist Danny Tommo ARRESTED After Dinghy SLASHED' YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfad... Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/7gm4...
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Far Right Activist Danny Tommo ARRESTED After Dinghy SLASHED
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Choosing hybridity: the possibilities and limits of #belonging among young adults from mixed Serb–Hungarian families in #Serbia' New from #Identities, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was interviewed for this article in @elperiodico.com La extrema derecha se radicaliza en el Reino Unido: cortes de carreteras e incursiones en el mar para frenar a los inmigrantes Lucas Font 26/09/26 amp.elperiodico.com/es/internaci... @sosslancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruninews.bsky.social
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La extrema derecha se radicaliza en el Reino Unido: cortes de carreteras e incursiones en el mar para frenar a los inmigrantes
Grupos organizados han protagonizado varios incidentes en las últimas semanas en su intento de detener por la fuerza la entrada irregular de personas a través del Canal de la Mancha
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still time to register for this week's #IdentitiesEvent! 'Working to Breaking Point: Una Marson’s Broadcasting Career at the BBC' www.eventbrite.co.uk... #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social
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Working to Breaking Point: Una Marson’s Broadcasting Career at the BBC
Identities online lecture with Dr Anthony Frampton and Yvette Rowe, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Pedagogies of the home and #migrant young people’s educational experiences in post-#Brexit Britain' by Marta Moskal New from #Identities, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #migration
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Higher Education risks irreversible damage, says British Academy president Prof Susan Smith, with humanities and social sciences disciplines disappearing in many cold spots. BA is tracking subject provision & calling for a comprehensive review www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...
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British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“The idea that preparing students to succeed in an AI-saturated world requires reimagining college as an AI incubator is not a sign of technological acumen, but of tech illiteracy. An LLM is not an aircraft requiring years of training to operate.” www.chronicle.com/article/harv...
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Opinion | The Ivy League’s Surrender to AI Is Insane
When college leaders drink the corporate Kool-Aid, the liberal arts die.
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'It's about class inequality and the left behind'. They have already been reducing the class and economic emphasis/arguments in this reactionary political project so all good ....
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reflecting on the rise of the far right in York and beyond. A talk by Aaron Winter @lancasteruni.bsky.social Defending the university: Fascism, free inquiry and the question of safety series University of York Department of Sociology & SATSU (Science & Tecnology Unit) Today! Sept 28 • 12-2pm
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'Intersecting #identities, exclusionary practices: the case of immigrant women in Türkiye' New from #Identities, now online: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #gender #ethnicity #migration #exclusion
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'Theorizing diasporic sociology' by Elisabeth Becker New from #Identities, now online: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #diaspora
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have you read the latest #IdentitiesBlog? '#Race, #gender and the city' by Mélodine Sommier Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @m3lodine.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'Working to breaking point: Una Marson’s pioneering broadcasting career at the B.B.C.' New from #Identities, by Anthony Frampton & Yvette Rowe: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #race #racism #postcolonial
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In New York, as air pollution fell, the toddlers' cognitive processing improved, the study found. In London, ULEZ coincided with improved lung health in children. When elected representatives take action to clean up air, our children benefit from better health: share.google/rnnWnmxNOzWF...
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Improved air quality linked to better mental development in toddlers, study finds
Long-term research in New York shows efforts to reduce air pollution associated with higher cognitive test scores
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New interview with me in Interia Minęło 61 dni od zmiany (It's been 61 days since the change) By Wojciech Albert Łobodziński 19/09/2026 tygodnik.interia.pl/tygodnik/new... @sosslancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruninews.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
'Reclaiming the frame: digital self-representation of migrant women in Estonia' New from #Identities, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... #migration #intersectionality @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'The brown/desi girl scape: diasporic young Bangladeshi women on social media' New from #Identities, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... #diaspora #migration @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'#Race, #gender and the city' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Mélodine Sommier Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @m3lodine.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New from #Identities: 'Experiences of #racism in postmigrant rural Austria: between discursive inclusivity and experiential exclusion' by Fatma Haron & Florian Ohnmacht: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
'“Resiliency regardless of where you were born”: #racialization, #coloniality, and Puerto Rican diasporic #identity construction' New from #Identities, by Janelle Ashley Viera: doi.org/10.1080/1070... #diaspora #PuertoRico @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
'Eldercare, childcare, and the making of kin: power and boundary-making in live-in migrant care work in Türkiye' New from #Identities, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... #migration #kinning @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Have you read the latest #IdentitiesBlog? 'When #identity becomes a floating target' by Fatma Haron & Florian Ohmacht Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A reminder: Rabbi Mirvis studied in an illegal West Bank settlement between 1976 and 1978. It is not surprising that for him, today is a dark day. For many many other Jews in the UK, today's statement is long overdue.
Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis on X

Today our Government has chosen to ignore the deep concerns expressed by so many of us. 

The measures announced amount to little more than political flag bearing for mendacious anti-Israel rhetoric and those who harbour a dangerous obsession with the Jewish State. These measures will succeed only in bolstering the very extremism they seek to target. 

On the eve of Rosh Hashanah and at a time when our community is more vulnerable than ever to the wave of extremism that has been building over recent years, these sanctions do nothing to advance the cause of peace. Nor do they make anyone safer – quite the contrary. 

Gesture politics of this kind feeds into an increasingly hostile discourse about Israel, and the cumulative effect of such punitive policies is to further embolden those, at home and abroad, who use hatred as a weapon against Jews.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Some in the media still claim that Trump is purely transactional, with no guiding ideology to speak of. They can only claim this because they refuse to recognize white supremacy as his guiding ideology.
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
'Religification of brownness and #racialization of Muslimness: how do Black and White Canadians perceive South Asian Muslims as romantic partners?' New from #Identities, by Tahseen Shams: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Naomi Waltham-Smith @auralflaneur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There are a number of problems with Stephen Bush’s FT piece on distinguishing il/legitimate concerns. They are, in the end, the contradictions within liberalism that explain it keeps mainstreaming the far right. (Read @aurelmondon.com & @aaronwinter.bsky.social.)
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
'Regional identities as potential tools for heritage based post-conflict reconciliation: the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina' New from #Identities, by Bogdan Dražeta et al.: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just saw that the podcast I did with Talking Terror (TERC) was added to the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation – managed by the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs - as a learning resource. Aaron Winter: The Extreme Right home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/eu-...
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
'Shared identity approach to conflict transformation: the case of the Konso–Derashe–Alle area, Ethiopian federalism in focus' From #Identities' latest issue, now published: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #LatestIssue
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Happy to announce that I've been made Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. It's a huge honour. Thanks to my nominators & the AcSS. Congratulations to the other new fellows @lancasteruni.bsky.social @lancasteruninews.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/social-...
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Social scientists recognised for outstanding contributions - Lancaster University
Two Lancaster academics are among 74 ‘outstanding’ social scientists to be recognised for excellence in their fields.
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
'When #identity becomes a floating target' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Fatma Haron & Florian Ohmacht Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
'‘One of the family’ revisited. Exploitation, bonding, and status in paid care work' From #Identities' latest issue, now published: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #LatestIssue
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
'Marseille in uproar: secularism, #multiculturalism, and urban degradation in the city of immigrants' From #Identities' latest issue, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #LatestIssue #immigration #France
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
'Ethnic languages conundrum in postcolonial Pakistan and the role of women in fostering Punjabi linguistic cringe' From #Identities' latest issue, now published: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #LatestIssue
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
'Food for the soul: religious #identity and ethical halal labelling in sharing economy apps' From #Identities' latest issue, now published: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #LatestIssue
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Have you read the latest #IdentitiesBlog? 'Being Bangladeshi in Britain', by Anushka Chaudhuri Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
That's how I stopped when I started ice skating but hadn't learned how to stop before hitting the boards.
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
'Whose nation? The #racialization of sporting heroes and the emergence of new cosmopolitan imaginaries' From #Identities' latest issue, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... #race #belonging @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Welcome to Britain, a country where literally any bigoted bullshit can and will be concocted to protect big business and corporate criminals who should be in jail.
Muslims should lose less water in their religious practices
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New issue from #Identities, now published! Vol 32 No 4 Explore the issue: www.tandfonline.com/... #LatestIssue @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
'Shared identity approach to conflict transformation: the case of the Konso–Derashe–Alle area, Ethiopian federalism in focus' From #Identities' latest issue, now published: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #LatestIssue
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
'Being Bangladeshi in Britain' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Anushka Chaudhuri Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
'Modes of embodiment: exercising agency through Afro-Cuban dance' From #Identities' latest issue, now published: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #LatestIssue
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
'Marseille in uproar: secularism, #multiculturalism, and urban degradation in the city of immigrants' From #Identities' latest issue, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #LatestIssue #immigration #France
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
'‘One of the family’ revisited. Exploitation, bonding, and status in paid care work' From #Identities' latest issue, now published: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #LatestIssue
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Have you read the latest #IdentitiesBlog? 'Formed in China, negotiated in the UK', by Dan Liu Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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