We have been working hard behind the scenes for this year's suite of activities at #CIRAF. Expect more fascinating online seminars featuring scholars at Cardiff and beyond in the winter and spring, and a public event in summer 2025! Watch this space 👀

Some really interesting discussion here about masculinity and the far right, as well as some of the methodological and emotional challenges of such research.

If you're researching right-wing violence, you should check out the RTV Dataset, the RTV Map Tool and the RTV Trend Reports, which are all freely available on the C-REX (@crexuio.bsky.social) website. sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/…

Great online event coming up on 11th October: Far-Right Movements, Far-Right Ideologies, and the Corporate World This event moves away from discussions of "populism" towards a focus on the political-economic aspects of the far right. Register here: critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/far-right-move…

🔥 We have a new article out in JEPP on far-right contentious politics. We tackle nativist mobilisation in the protest arena and its relationship with ‘crisis’ adopting short- as well as long-term perspectives. Here’s what we found. 🧵 1/7 doi.org/10.1080/135017…

Could be a great new initiative

This is today - could be v interesting!

Slightly delayed tweet, but it was great to hear Dr Elizabeth Pearson reference the brilliant former CIRAF member Kat Williams in her fascinating Birthing the Nation talk on masculinity & the UK far right recently. (Find more of Kat's work on women in the AfD here: scholar.google.com/citations?user…)

Ooh this looks interesting!

In this new article, I argue that hegemonic defeatism is a key part of the mainstreaming of far right politics We are told that the rise of the far right is considered irresistible and our only choice is about who will implement its politics 🧵1/ academic.oup.com/pa/advance-art…

📣 New CIRAF webinar on Queer Antifascism 📣 #Queer #Antifa 12th Feb, 1-2.30pm GMT We're thrilled to host Sébastien Tremblay talking queer memory practices in post-WWII Germany and Ivana Marjanović on the antifascism of QueerBeograd Cabaret Register: eventbrite.com/e/queer-antifa…

This was a superb event today - two great talks and so much discussion that we ran half an hour over time! Registration for our next seminar on the UK's 2024 summer disturbances coming soon...

You beat us to it 😄 We can't wait!

Have a look at our introduction for this Interventions section I guest edited with my friend Elisabeth Moerking for Critical Studies on Security. It comprises some great short-form creative interventions on the micro-, ordinary affective politics of global reaction. tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/10…

Upcoming webinar: The 2024 Riots, the Far Right & Racism Join us on Wed 19 March for a fascinating session on the nature & meaning of last summer's events with two great scholars of contemporary far-right politics - Aaron Winter & Chris Allen. Sign up: eventbrite.com/e/the-2024-rio…

Here comes the sun 🌞 New publication with Sabine Volk! "The People against the Sun? Ideology & Strategy in Far-Right Parties' #Climate #Obstruction of Solar Energy" now out in Environmental Politics. ➡️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #openaccess This is part of my #REXKLIMA research group. (1/3)

📣 Only two more days to register for this. Join us to discuss the events of Summer 2024 and how we can best understand them. Get your free, online tickets here 👇

Looking forward to participating in this CIRAF webinar today

Great analysis by Katy Brown "The far right is not some threat lying waiting in the future – its normalisation is happening now" reacpol.net/starmer-immigr…

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