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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 24/09/2025

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...

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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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Liam Gillespie @liamgillespie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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...

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Blaming ‘extremists’ for March For Australia rallies lets ‘mainstream’ Australia off the hook

March For Australia did not occur in a vacuum. There’s a long history of racism and nationalism we’re at risk of obscuring.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 04/04/2025

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"

Elon Musk reposting Trump and saying:
Free Le Pen!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
The Witch Hunt against Marine Le Pen is another example of European Leftists using Lawfare to silence Free Speech, and censor their Political Opponent, this time going so far as to put that Opponent in prison. It is the same "playbook" that was used against me by a group of Lunatics and Losers, like Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, and Lisa Monaco. They spent the last nine years thinking of nothing else, and they FAILED, because the People of the United States realized that they were only Corrupt Lawyers and Politicians. I don't know Marine Le Pen, but do appreciate how hard she worked for so many years. She suffered losses, but kept on going, and now, just before what would be a Big Victory, they get her on a minor charge that she probably knew nothing about - Sounds like a
"bookkeeping" error to me. It is all so bad for France, and the Great French People, no matter what side they are on. FREE MARINE LE PEN!

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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.

Et voilà: our NEH grant with Harriet Murav for “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” has been terminated. This project does not, the letter notes, support “the furtherance of the President’s agenda.” I guess work on Jews surviving genocide is out of step with the agenda of this presidential administration whose only use for Jews is the weaponization of Jewish safety to destroy higher education.

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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...

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Opinion | Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade. We’re Tossing That Away. (Gift Article)

The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.

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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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!

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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

📢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/

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Webinar 6: The haunting past: memory and far right studies (20/03/2025) - Reactionary Politics Research Network

This webinar series, co-organized by RPRN, CASEI and C-REX, aims to initiate and facilitate a much needed discussion about the methodological, ethical, political, personal, practical and professional ...

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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.

Online Hate: From the Far-Right to the ‘Alt-Right’ and from the Margins to the Mainstream by Aaron Winter (2019)

Reactionary Democracy:
How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (2020)
by Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter

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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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

The Mexican Repatriation was the repatriation, deportation, and expulsion of Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the United States during the Great Depression between 1929 and 1939. Estimates of how many were repatriated, deported, or expelled range from 300,000 to 2 million (of which 40-60% were citizens of the United States, overwhelmingly children) [4):fn 2015]

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Liam Gillespie @liamgillespie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 07/03/2025

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.

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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).

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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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

DOJ, HHS, ED, and GSA Announce Initial Cancellation of Grants and Contracts to Columbia University Worth $400 Million

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Sarah Bracke @antigonesdream.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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.

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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

'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... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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Vacro @vacro.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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...

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Number of children under 14 in adult watch houses in Queensland rises 50% in 12 months

Report to parliament the adult cells are an ‘inadequate place to keep young people overnight’ and are ‘harmful and traumatising’

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

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...

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Highest university executive pay packets revealed

Universities are spending more on top management staff, with almost 200 people on salaries of $500,000 or more a year.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 05/01/2025

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

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Liam Gillespie @liamgillespie.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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

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Liam Gillespie @liamgillespie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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

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Stephen Burrell @thedailypanda.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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...

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It’s time to recognise the role masculinity is playing in the climate crisis

COP29 came to a fairly disappointing end. We need to address the role of masculinity in harms against nature, says University of Melbourne expert

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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

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Suraj Lakhani @surajlakhani.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

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...

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 16/12/2024

'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....

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On the proximity of the far right and the misuses of the ‘mainstreaming’ metaphor

A recent body of work has examined the normalization of far-right ideas and political violence. This is often referred to as the ‘mainstreaming’ of the far right. This article explores some of the ...

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