Dr Sandra Duffy (they/she) is a lecturer at University of Bristol Law School, where they teach human rights and health law. Sandra’s research focuses on the regulation of gendered identities by law, including where this interacts with anti-gender movements and transphobic politics. They are currently writing their first monograph.

Aurelien Mondon (he/him) is a Professor of Politics at the University of Bath and co-convenor of the Reactionary Politics Research Network. His research focuses predominantly on the mainstreaming of reactionary politics, focusing in particular on the role of elite discourse. His latest book Reactionary democracy: How racism and the populist far right became mainstream, co-written with Aaron Winter, was published in 2020 with Verso. In 2024, he co-edited The Ethics of Researching the Far Right with Antonia Vaughan, Joan Braune and Meghan Tinsley.

Dr Henrique Tavares Furtado is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UWE. He writes on the memory of authoritarianism in Latin America and reactionary ontologies in Political Theory and International Relations. He is the author of Politics of Impunity: Torture, the Armed Forces and the Failure of Transitional Justice in Brazil (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and numerous articles in the journals Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology, Review of International Studies, Critical Security Studies, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Critical Military Studies, The Journal for the Study of Radicalism and others.

I am a first-year PhD student at the University of Bath with a research focus on anti-populism: discourses which seek to defend the status quo from contestation by demonising challenges to it as irresponsibly “populist”. As such, I am interested in two reactionary consequences of these discourses. Firstly, the ways in which they close down opportunities to contest neoliberal hegemony and, secondly, the euphamisation of far-right politics as merely “populist”. Within the Reactionary Politics Research Network I am hoping to explore how reaction operates at the core of the liberal-democratic mainstream.

I am currently senior lecturer in the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies (PoLIS) at the University of Bath, UK. My work situates itself in the burgeoning debate in political theory of technology which seek to highlight the hidden values, interests and ideologies that are embedded in the technologies. I am also working the politics of the green transition today, and more specifically the role that technologies, affects and imaginaries play within it.

I am interested in the interaction between state regulation and disruptive agency, the politics of crisis, the visibilities that “culture war” politics produces and the circulation of far-right ideas.

Miranda Iossifidis is a Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University. Her research interests are to do with speculative populationist and ecofascist futures, reproductive and climate justice, and creative and collaborative methods.

Alison Phipps is Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University. Her work focuses on gender and racial capitalism, feminist politics, and sexual violence. She is interested in ‘gender critical’ feminism as a reactionary formation and how that sits within broader contemporary right wing ecologies and histories of reactionary feminism. She is also interested in how ‘gender-critical’ feminists and other right-wing movements weaponise the issue of ‘women’s safety’ and imputations of sexual violence. Her work draws on and extends theoretical frameworks such as colonial feminism and the coloniality of gender, the afterlives of slavery, femo-nationalism and femocapitalism, and social reproduction theory.

I am a first-year PhD student at the University of Bath with a research focus on anti-populism: discourses which seek to defend the status quo from contestation by demonising challenges to it as irresponsibly “populist”. As such, I am interested in two reactionary consequences of these discourses. Firstly, the ways in which they close down opportunities to contest neoliberal hegemony and, secondly, the euphamisation of far-right politics as merely “populist”. Within the Reactionary Politics Research Network I am hoping to explore how reaction operates at the core of the liberal-democratic mainstream.

Aurelien Mondon (he/him) is a Professor of Politics at the University of Bath and co-convenor of the Reactionary Politics Research Network. His research focuses predominantly on the mainstreaming of reactionary politics, focusing in particular on the role of elite discourse. His latest book Reactionary democracy: How racism and the populist far right became mainstream, co-written with Aaron Winter, was published in 2020 with Verso. In 2024, he co-edited The Ethics of Researching the Far Right with Antonia Vaughan, Joan Braune and Meghan Tinsley.

Leah Owen (she/her, xie/xir) is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Swansea University. She works largely in the field of security studies – looking at threat perception and xenophobic securitisation in mass violence and in climate politics. Her secondary research interests include trans/queer politics, and post-conflict justice.

I am a first-year PhD student at the University of Bath with a research focus on anti-populism: discourses which seek to defend the status quo from contestation by demonising challenges to it as irresponsibly “populist”. As such, I am interested in two reactionary consequences of these discourses. Firstly, the ways in which they close down opportunities to contest neoliberal hegemony and, secondly, the euphamisation of far-right politics as merely “populist”. Within the Reactionary Politics Research Network I am hoping to explore how reaction operates at the core of the liberal-democratic mainstream.