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/
📣New working paper📣 Oluwaseun J. Oguntuase reconceputalises the climate delayism of corporate elites in Africa as a mode of reactionary politics, situated within existing extractivist political economies. reacpol.net/workingpaper...
Working paper: Climate Delayism As Reactionary Politics in Africa - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Austerity Redux: Climate Delayism As Reactionary Politics in Africa (Oluwaseun Oguntuase)
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🟥Red Lines🟥 'Using algorithmic visibility tactically is only meaningful if it translates into informed citizenship, democratic participation, and organisational capacity.' Deniz Celikoglu reflects on the relationship between radical politics and digital platforms. reacpol.net/masters-tools/
Can the master’s tools dismantle the master’s house? (Deniz Celikoglu) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Deniz Celikoglu discusses using platform affordances as tools of resistance.
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RPRN statement of support and solidarity for Prosfygika and its inhabitants, who are at risk of eviction. reacpol.net/prosfygika-s...
RPRN statement of support and solidarity for Prosfygika - Reactionary Politics Research Network
RPRN statement of support and solidarity for Prosfygika
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🟥Red Lines🟥 'The right to mental and bodily integrity, the right to inviolability – that is autonomy.' @ajoellie.bsky.social reflects on the role of women's shelters and the need for autonomy. reacpol.net/abolish-wome...
Should We Abolish Women’s Shelters? (Antje Joel) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Antje Joel discusses women shelters and autonomy
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📣New interiew📣 'Men like Trump, Musk, and Thiel are overwhelmingly anxious about not only “white death” but also about their own mortality' @hannamorris.bsky.social discusses the rise of apocalyptic authoritarianism. reacpol.net/apocalyptic-...
Interview: “Apocalyptic Authoritarianism” with Hanna Morris - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Hannah Morris's book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism
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📣New working paper📣 Ana Țăranu continues our working paper series by reflecting on the neoliberal convergences of the technocratic centre and far right in the Romanian context. Check it out below! reacpol.net/workingpaper...
Working paper: Austerity Redux: Sovereigntism and Technocratic Centrism as Neoliberal Bedfellows - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Austerity Redux: Sovereigntism and Technocratic Centrism as Neoliberal Bedfellows (Ana Țăranu)
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🔴 Red Lines 🔴 @georgenewth.bsky.social explores the reaction to Henry Nowak's murder and shows why the government needs to channel a real ‘common sense’ 'Trying to outflank Reform UK is a dead end that will lead to more hate and division.' Read on 👇 reacpol.net/redlines-com...
Reaction to Henry Nowak murder shows why the government needs to channel a real ‘common sense’ (George Newth) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by George Newth explores the reaction to Henry Nowak's murder and shows why the government needs to channel a real ‘common sense’.
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📣New working paper📣 Ana Țăranu continues our working paper series by reflecting on the neoliberal convergences of the technocratic centre and far right in the Romanian context. Check it out below! reacpol.net/workingpaper...
Working paper: Austerity Redux: Sovereigntism and Technocratic Centrism as Neoliberal Bedfellows - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Austerity Redux: Sovereigntism and Technocratic Centrism as Neoliberal Bedfellows (Ana Țăranu)
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🟥Red Lines🟥 'How is this cordon sanitaire supposed to survive if it is undermined from within?' @uselesssimo.bsky.social and @cburchett.bsky.social examine the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz. reacpol.net/merz-farrigh...
Red Lines: Sch-Merz-haft! Friedrich Merz’s Culturalist, Reactionary Perspectives and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right (Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett discusses the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz.
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📣New book review📣 'What the book ultimately demonstrates is the dynamic adaptability of the contemporary Christian right.' Benjamin Nangle reviews 'Esther’s Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right' by @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social. reacpol.net/esther-army/
Book review: Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Book review of Katie Gaddini's Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right
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📣New interview📣 'Hate doesn’t do compromise.' @furtadoht.bsky.social discusses liberal fantasies of reconciliation with the far right. reacpol.net/reconcile-fa...
Interview: Should we reconcile with the far right (Henrique Tavares Furtado) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Henrique Tavares Furtado's article "Should We Reconcile with the Far Right? The 2024 Race Riots in Britain and the End of Post-Fascism."
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📣New interview📣 'Outside of game studies, there has been limited engagement with what games actually are and why they matter politically' Briar Dickey discusses the relationship between far-right influencers and video games. reacpol.net/respawning-t...
Interview: Respawning the Hero (Briar Dickey) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Briar Dickey’s article "Respawning the Hero: Metapolitics, Historical Fiction Video Games and the Shifting Strategies and Subjectivities of Far-right Influencers".
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📣New interview📣 'The route to transnational left-populism is simply a question of political will.' Reid Kleinberg discusses left-wing populism, nationalism and the limits of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s conversion strategy. reacpol.net/populism-nat...
Interview: Left-wing populism, nationalism, and the limits of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s conversion strategy (Reid Kleinberg) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Reid Kleinberg's article "The Firebrands Echo: National Fantasy as an Obstacle to Jean‐Luc Mélenchon's Populist Spectacle."
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🟥Red Lines🟥 'In our circumstances, it should be obvious that voting does not equate to democracy.' @aurelmondon.com explains why democracy is not (only) about elections. reacpol.net/elections-no...
Red Lines: Elections are not democratic (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Aurelien Mondon discusses elections and the role they play in democracy.
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📣New working paper📣 Benjamin Nangle launches our working paper series by reflecting on the consolidation of reactionary politics in Lithuania. He credits this consolidation to the fusion of market fundamentalism, cultural traditionalism, and border securitisation. reacpol.net/workingpaper...
Working paper: Mythologised Pasts, Foreclosed Futures (Benjamin Nangle) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Mythologised Pasts, Foreclosed Futures: Selective Memory, Neoliberalism, and Reactionary Consolidation in Lithuania (Benjamin Nangle)
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📣New book review📣 'By the end, so much momentum is gathered the weight of evidence feels undeniable.' @sara-hill.bsky.social reviews 'Apocalyptic Authoritarianism' by @hannamorris.bsky.social. reacpol.net/apocalyptic-...
Book review: Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media and Power - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Book review of Hanna E. Morris’ Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media and Power
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📣New interview📣 'The ecology produces ideological effects that exceed and outlast the intentions of any individual actor within it' Benjamin Nangle discusses the affective-discursive ecologies of the far right. reacpol.net/affective-di...
Interview: Affective-discursive ecologies of the far right (Ben Nangle) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Ben Nangle and Leen d’Haenens’s article “Affective-discursive ecologies of the far right”.
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New interview in @crossbordertalks.bsky.social 'Nick Fuentes and Corp.: Dialectics of the New Far-Right Ecosystem' Great to chat with Wojciech Albert Lobodzinski @lancasteruninews.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social www.crossbordertalks.eu/2026/03/23/n...
Nick Fuentes and Corp.: Dialectics of the New Far-Right Ecosystem - Cross-border Talks
There is a systemic dynamic at play that matters more than any single individual. These...
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Not sure what to read over the weekend? @imrobwalker.bsky.social and other brilliant RPRN members have you covered with this provocative anthology about Louis Theroux's Inside the Manosphere documentary It also includes the first ever poem published by Red Lines! reacpol.net/theroux-docu...
Red Lines: Working ‘Theroux’ What Louis Missed: a Multi-Lens Structural Analysis of the Manosphere - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This anthology on Theroux's Inside the Manosphere documentary was curated by Rob Walker
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'In sum, Louis Theroux's Inside the Manosphere captures the visibility of misogyny within the manosphere, it does not fully account for the infrastructure within which it is sustained' Read our thought-provoking anthology edited by @imrobwalker.bsky.social here 👇 reacpol.net/theroux-docu...
Red Lines: Working ‘Theroux’ What Louis Missed: a Multi-Lens Structural Analysis of the Manosphere - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This anthology on Theroux's Inside the Manosphere documentary was curated by Rob Walker
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📣New publication📣 '‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti-Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’' or how the Commission constructs the threat of 'populism' to deflect from its own exclusionary policies and discourses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 1/
‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti‐Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’
Whilst ‘populism’ is often considered antithetical to ‘European values’, how this contrast shapes the very meaning of such ‘values’ remains underexplored. This article investigates the European Commi...
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Excellent presentation @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference from @emmyeklundh.bsky.social on her new book "Europe's Populist Condition"
Emmy Eklundh@emmyeklundh.bsky.social · 4mo agoVery excited to head to Oxford tomorrow for the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social annual conference! Will be doing a roundtable on my book Monday afternoon and present some new work on Wednesday morning! @reacpolrn.bsky.social
🗣️ New Interview 🗣️ “In a nutshell, don’t be anti-populist, be anti-fascist!” Read more on @alexyates2000.bsky.social ’ new article ‘A Cure for ‘Populism’?’ Thanks to @imrobwalker.bsky.social for doing the interview! reacpol.net/anti-populism/
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📜 RPRN statement 📜 HEPI’s Preparing for Populism is a profoundly unhelpful document that mistakes capitulation for strategy Research, critical inquiry, expertise, and the transmission of knowledge are not incidental irritants reactionary projects, they are its targets reacpol.net/populism-hepi/
RPRN statement on HEPI’s Preparing for Populism debate paper - Reactionary Politics Research Network
RPRN statement on HEPI’s Preparing for Populism debate paper
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🟥Red Lines🟥 'The Lithuanian border was one node in an accelerating continental project of exclusion, where the violence is increasingly legal.' Benjamin Nangle discusses grassroots resistance at Europe's Eastern border. reacpol.net/grassroots-r...
Red Lines: The Disproportionate impact of Grassroots Resistance at Europe’s Eastern Border (Benjamin Nangle) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Benjamin Nangle discusses the disproportionate impact of grassroots resistance at Europe's Eastern Border
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🟥Red Lines🟥 'The Lithuanian border was one node in an accelerating continental project of exclusion, where the violence is increasingly legal.' Benjamin Nangle discusses grassroots resistance at Europe's Eastern border. reacpol.net/grassroots-r...
Red Lines: The Disproportionate impact of Grassroots Resistance at Europe’s Eastern Border (Benjamin Nangle) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Benjamin Nangle discusses the disproportionate impact of grassroots resistance at Europe's Eastern Border
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📣New publication📣 Some of our members have co-authored a policy study on progressive strategies to counter far-right mainstreaming. Check it out below!
Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · 5mo ago🚨New policy study🚨 There must be an alternative: Against mainstream defeatism and towards the rejuvenation of the democratic public space We make seven key recommendations to turn the tide @feps-europe.eu 🧵 1/ feps-europe.eu/publication/...
📣New interview📣 @ugaudino.bsky.social discusses how centre-left political parties in Western Europe mobilize Islamophobia in security discourse and policy for political gain. reacpol.net/islamophobia...
Interview: Islamophobia and Translations of Securitization in the UK, France, and Italy (Ugo Gaudino) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Ugo Gaudino’s book ‘Islamophobia and Translations of Securitization in the UK, France, and Italy’
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Our online book launch of Europe's Populist Condition is tonight! Sign up below!
Reactionary Politics Research Network@reacpolrn.bsky.social · 5mo agoLess than a week to go until our online book launch of Europe's Populist Condition by @emmyeklundh.bsky.social. Sign up below! reacpol.net/populist-con...
📣New interview📣 'Once you rework the history of the Indian subcontinent as one oppressed by Islamic and Christian invasions it takes you away from the political economy of colonialism' Shray Mehta discusses the BJP's reactionary co-option of anti-colonial discourse. reacpol.net/decolonising...
Interview: Decolonizing the Hindu Mind (Shray Mehta) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Shray Mehta’s article ‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India
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