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...

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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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...

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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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...

The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right 'extremists’ - it’s been enabled by the mainstream | Liam Gillespie

The weekend’s protests provided an alibi to nationalism, obscuring the central place racism has always occupied

theguardian.com

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

Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power@identitiesjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

'The proximity of the 'far' right' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by @liamgillespie.bsky.social Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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...

Race still matters: the (post) racial politics of conspiracy theories - Contemporary Political Theory

The proliferation of conspiracy theories is seemingly on the rise. Among them, are many that are explicitly racist. Examples of this include Great Replacement Theory, White Genocide, QAnon, and Eurabi...

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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...

Interview: ‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project (Fran Amery) - Reactionary Politics Research Network

This interview is based on Fran Amery's article '‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project' (2025)

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

‘Sovereign Citizen Gets Roasted’: On the Nomophilia of Sovereign Citizens and Their Settler-Colonial Critics - Liam Gillespie, 2025

Sovereign Citizens have gained mainstream attention by refusing to recognise law. This attention often entails ridicule, as illustrated by viral Sovereign Citiz...

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📢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...

Interview: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France (Charlène Calderaro) - Reactionary Politics Research Network

This interview is based on Charlène Calderaro's article 'Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France' (2025)

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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...

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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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!

Reactionary Politics Research Network@reacpolrn.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣New interview📣 As part of a new interview series with our members, we've talked to @emmyeklundh.bsky.social and Sebastián Ronderos about their new paper in @jlanpol.bsky.social and the role of affect and fantasy in reactionary politics. Check it out below! reacpol.net/fantasy-reac...

📢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/

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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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:

Reactionary Politics Research Network@reacpolrn.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢New blog📢 @liamgillespie.bsky.social discusses the misuses of the 'mainstreaming' metaphor in far right studies. Check it out below! reacpol.net/misusing-mai...

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/

Blog: Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism (Aaron Winter) - Reactionary Politics Research Network

Blog post by Aaron Winter on Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism

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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.

Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power@identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 2y ago

'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

'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

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-...

We need more than a ban on Nazi salutes to fight racism

While addressing racist gestures is important, criminalisation is not the only answer. We must meaningfully deal with the underlying social, political and cultural conditions that enable their use, ex...

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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...

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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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...

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.

smh.com.au

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

How AI music has become a common fixture of far-right hate – part one

The far-right is using AI to create music and content as a way to spread racist and other extremist views.

artshub.com.au