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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/
'El componente de género de la política reaccionaria no es solo una represalia contra los valores progresistas, sino que es fundamental para construir la visión neoliberal y neocolonial de la extrema derecha internacional.'
Entrevista con Natalia Marsicovetere
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You can find Natalia's report chapter (co-authored with Tristán López), which this interview is based on, here: lassociacio.org/wp-content/u...
05.12.2025 13:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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'The gender component of reactionary politics is not just a retaliation against progressive values, but is central to building the neoliberal, neocolonial vision of the international far-right.'
Natalia Marsicovetere on anti-gender democratic erosion.
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'Terms like “detransitioner,” like “transitioner,” reduce people to the act of transitioning and frame transitioning as an extremist act or impulsive decision'
@katfuller.bsky.social discusses transphobic moral panics on the far right.
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Countering the trend towards fascism can take many shapes and forms but it cannot take the form of a blind faith support in the status quo and mainstream elite as has been argued for too long
Some thoughts @reacpolrn.bsky.social on the latest developments in the UK
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'We must ask ourselves whether a liberal articulation of fascism is better than full fascism or whether both must be countered with equal vigour.'
@aurelmondon.bsky.social on the mainstreaming of reactionary politics and the need for radical alternatives.
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With just a few weeks until publication, it's possible to pre-order my book in time for Xmas! For anyone who wants to read a decolonial approach to populism and understand why we are still so attached to the idea of 'populism'
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-popu... @brisunipress.bsky.social
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'Anyone opposing racist policies risks being accused of not caring about women’s safety.'
Victoria Scheyer discusses white feminism and femonationalism in the German context.
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You can find Georgios' research article, which this interview is based on, below.
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'Moving from an immaterial feed to a poster on a street furnishes AfD’s claims with context and permanence.'
@gsamaras.bsky.social discusses the mnemonic normalisation of the German far right through its visual politics.
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'Neoliberal ideology builds the structure, the structure rewards domination, and from that, both misogyny and microfascism take root.'
@imrobwalker.bsky.social and Kay Sidebottom discuss neoliberalism, microfascism, and misogyny in classroom settings.
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Just one week to go before the submission deadline for the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social annual conference. You can submit your paper to the Reactionary Politics Specialist Group stream below!
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ICYMI, check out @georgenewth.bsky.social's blog on the limits of Keir Starmer's 'patriotic' discourse and his ongoing enabling of the far right.
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'Starmer’s intervention on the side of progressive values might be a welcome one, were it not premised on a dead duck narrative of “progressive patriotism”.'
@georgenewth.bsky.social reflects on the limits of Keir Starmer's 'patriotic' discourse.
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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
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📣Call for papers📣
If you are planning to attend the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social annual conference in Oxford (30 March-1 April), please consider submitting your paper to our Rectionary Politics Specialist Group stream at the link below! Deadline: 17th October.
www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa-a...
If you missed this year's summer school but feel you would belong there, consider joining the network!
Solidarity!
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Another photo of the room with participants online and in person
This means that we will continue to
- keep attendance free
- provide bursaries to those who need them
- welcome researchers from all backgrounds
- pay precariously employed speakers
- facilitate attendance for those who cannot be with us in person through a hybrid and interactive format
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Room with arouhd 30 participants sitting around table and online participants on one of the screens
While securing funding for such events is difficult, we hope to keep the space alive for years to come, and crucially break accessibility barriers wherever we can
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RPSS banner next to the stairs towards the room
That's a wrap!
The second edition of the Reactionary Politics Summer School is over!
Once again, it was incredibly energizing to share this space with critical, committed researchers from all over the world ❤️
More info about the RPSS below
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You can find Meaghan's open access research article, which this interview is based on, here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
29.08.2025 14:33 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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'Sentiments that are popular in the manosphere—like the idea that women’s “purpose” is to serve men—have their roots in more “mainstream” norms and histories.'
Meaghan Furlano discusses 'manosphere creep' in the context of Netflix's Adolescence.
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📣New open access research article 📣
Our member, Meaghan Furlano, discusses how emotional and hermeneutic labour are presented in Netflix's Adolescence. Check it out below!
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You can find Daniel's research article, which this interview is based on here: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
12.08.2025 11:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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''Polarisation’ is used not only by those concerned with democratic erosion, but also by those seeking to protect ‘really existing (neo)liberalism’ from democratic critique'
@daniel-balinhas.bsky.social discusses his critical approach to 'polarisation'
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'Thin is back in and whiteness is re-associated with rightness.'
Our member, Meghan Furlano, on why Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle campaign is part of a wider cultural backlash.
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@paskokisic.bsky.social discusses how psychoanalytic theory can help us understand the contemporary far right and its normalisation. Check it out below!
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ICYMI check out @cburchett.bsky.social's interview on the far right's weaponisation of anti-antisemitism as part of their Islamophobic agenda.
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'Fascism and the Women’s Cause offers a vital and unvarnished insight into the ways in which historical campaigns for women’s rights often intertwined with far right and fascist ideas about gender, race, class, and empire.'
Thank you @drkatw.bsky.social and @reacpolrn.bsky.social for the review.
You can find Mohamed's research article, which this interview is based on, here: brill.com/view/journal...
21.07.2025 13:51 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
