You can check out Hanna's book, 'Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power' (OUP, 2025), here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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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'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.

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Affective–discursive ecologies of the far right: Multimodal softening, mobilisation and algorithmic proximity on Instagram - Benjamin Megarry Nangle, Leen d’Haenens, 2026 This article examines how far-right communication on Instagram uses positively valenced affect and humour to normalise extremist worldviews. Drawing on research...

This interview is based on Ben Nangle and Leen d’Haenens’s article ‘Affective-discursive ecologies of the far right’ which you can find here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... Thanks to @gsamaras.bsky.social for conducting the interview.

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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'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.

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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...

New interview in @crossbordertalks.bsky.social

'Nick Fuentes and Corp.: Dialectics of the New Far-Right Ecosystem'

Great to chat with Wojciech Albert Lobodzinski

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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

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!

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With contributions from @imrobwalker.bsky.social, Alison Phipps, Benjamin Nangle, Antje Joel and David S. Smith

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

'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 👇

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‘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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'‘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

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Excellent presentation @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference from @emmyeklundh.bsky.social on her new book "Europe's Populist Condition"

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“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!

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RPRN statement on HEPI’s Preparing for Populism debate paper - Reactionary Politics Research Network RPRN statement on HEPI’s Preparing for Populism debate paper

📜 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

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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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'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.

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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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'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.

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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!

You can find Ugo's book, upon which this interview is based, here: global.oup.com/academic/pro....

Thanks to Reid Kleinberg for conducting the interview.

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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@ugaudino.bsky.social discusses how centre-left political parties in Western Europe mobilize Islamophobia in security discourse and policy for political gain.

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Our online book launch of Europe's Populist Condition is tonight! Sign up below!

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You can find Shray's research article, upon which this interview was based here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thanks to Bec Devitt for conducting the interview.

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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'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.

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Less than a week to go until our online book launch of Europe's Populist Condition by @emmyeklundh.bsky.social. Sign up below!

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Great to talk to the wonderful @mirandaioss.bsky.social about this article - ecofascism and the banal NGO aesthetic legitimising populist narratives - appears in more places than you think...

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The Populationist Climate Futures Industry: NGO SF Capital, Eco-emotions and Speculative Ecofascism This article examines the speculative climate futures fabricated by population-focused environmental charities and non-profit organizations, to explore how they draw on NGO Science Fiction (SF) cap...

You can find Miranda's research article, upon which this interview is based, here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interview: The Populationist Climate Futures Industry (Miranda Jeanne Marie Iossifidis) - Reactionary Politics Research Network This interview is based on Miranda Jeanne Marie Iossifidis’ paper “The Populationist Climate Futures Industry: NGO SF Capital, Eco-emotions and Speculative Ecofascism” Image by freepik

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'I see ecofascism as really closely connected to populationist ideas and discourses, where people are seen to be both the problem and the solution of the climate crisis.'

@mirandaioss.bsky.social discusses the populationist climate futures industry.

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Red Lines: The death of Quentin Deranque, the demonisation of the French left, and far-right mainstreaming (Fraser McQueen) - Reactionary Politics Research Network This article by Fraser McQueen discusses the demonisation of the left in the aftermath of Quentin Deranque's death

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'The reaction, from far right to centre left, to Deranque’s death has been nothing short of shameful, particularly at a time when the far right and fascism are increasingly powerful'.

Read more on @frasermcqueen.bsky.social's analysis for Red Lines 👇

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This is excellent!

Red Lines: The death of Quentin Deranque, the demonisation of the French left, and far-right mainstreaming (Fraser McQueen) - Reactionary Politics Research Network This article by Fraser McQueen discusses the demonisation of the left in the aftermath of Quentin Deranque's death

I wrote for Red Lines @reacpolrn.bsky.social about the killing of French neo-fascist Quentin Deranque & the demonisation of the left/mainstreaming of far-right politics. Grateful to all three editors, and to @aurelmondon.com for the invitation! Link below:

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Red Lines: The death of Quentin Deranque, the demonisation of the French left, and far-right mainstreaming (Fraser McQueen) - Reactionary Politics Research Network This article by Fraser McQueen discusses the demonisation of the left in the aftermath of Quentin Deranque's death

🟥 Red Lines 🟥

'The reaction, from far right to centre left, to Deranque’s death has been nothing short of shameful, particularly at a time when the far right and fascism are increasingly powerful'.

Read more on @frasermcqueen.bsky.social's analysis for Red Lines 👇

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Arte, memoria y genealogías antifascistas YouTube video by Reactionary Politics Research Network

Vea el vídeo de nuestro seminario que reúne a la artista Espe Pons y Jorge Marco para dialogar sobre Maybe Never Again, el reciente fotolibro de Pons dedicado a las vidas de mujeres antifascistas internacionales que participaron en la Guerra Civil española
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Red Lines: The coloniality of sexual violence (Alison Phipps) - Reactionary Politics Research Network This article by Alison Phipps discusses the coloniality of sexual violence, building on her forthcoming book.

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"Sexual violence and sexual fear are means by which life, death and living-death are organised to support accumulation"

Alison Phipps on The coloniality of sexual violence, based on her forthcoming book

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