Red Lines
Managing editors: Archibald Gustin, Diana Wallens and Katherine Williams.
Interviews with our members by our members about their recent publications.
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This interview is based on Sebastián Ronderos and Emmy Eklundh's article 'Does populism challenge the status quo? Understanding transgression and subversion in...
Book review of Evelyn Iritani, Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World...
This interview is based on Hanna Morris's book “Apocalyptic Authoritarianism” Morris, H.E. (2025). Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power. New...
Book review of Katie Gaddini, Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right. The book review was conducted by Benjamin Nangle. For more information on...
Interview: Should we reconcile with the far right? (Henrique Tavares Furtado) This interview is based on Henrique Tavares Furtado's article 'Should We Reconcile with...
This interview is based on Briar Dickey’s article "Respawning the Hero: Metapolitics, Historical Fiction Video Games and the Shifting Strategies and Subjectivities of...
Interview: Left-wing populism, nationalism, and the limits of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's conversion strategy (Reid Kleinberg) This interview is based on Reid Kleinberg's...
Interview: White terrorism on trial (Sophie Marois) This interview is based on Sophie Marois's article 'White terrorism on trial' Sophie Marois, "White terrorism on...
Book review of Hanna E. Morris’ Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media and Power by Sara Hill. For more information on the book:...
Interview: Affective-discursive ecologies of the far right (Ben Nangle) This interview is based on Ben Nangle and Leen d’Haenens’s article 'Affective-discursive...
Interview: Anti-populism, framing, and reactionary politics (Alex Yates) This interview is based on Alex Yates’ article ‘A Cure for “Populism”? Diagnostic and...
This interview is based on Ugo Gaudino’s book ‘Islamophobia and Translations of Securitization in the UK, France, and Italy’ Gaudino, U (2026), Islamophobia and...
This interview is based on Shray Mehta’s article ‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India Mehta, S...
This interview is based on Miranda Jeanne Marie Iossifidis’ paper “The Populationist Climate Futures Industry: NGO SF Capital, Eco-emotions and Speculative Ecofascism”....
This interview is based on Maximillian Guarini's articles, “Visualising the ‘British Red Scare’ Through Media Coverage of Jeremy Corbyn” and “A three-step manual for...
This interview is based on Anthony Kelly's article, “On the Interface of Influencers and Antagonists: Conceptualising the Role of Audience Antagonism in the Mediation...
This interview is based on Juan Roch, Daniel Balinhas and Aurelien Mondon's article, “A critique of the polarisation narrative: expanding the limits of democracy,...
This interview is based on Omran Shroufi’s paper, “A critical discourse analysis of Geert Wilders’ pro-Israelism.” Shroufi, O. (2025). A critical discourse analysis of...
Entrevista con Natalia Marsicovetere basada en el estudio de caso “La erosión democrática en clave antigénero: la influencia de los actores conservadores españoles en...
This interview is based on Natalia Marsicovetere's report contribution, co-authored with Tristán López, 'Democratic erosion through an anti-gender lens: the influence...
This interview is based on Kat Fuller's chapter 'Moral panic: Transphobia, gender ideology and far-right conspiracy', co-authored with Quinnehtukqut McLamore. Fuller K...
This interview is based on Georgios Samaras's article 'Mnemonic normalisation in the visual politics of the German far-right' Samaras, G. (2025) 'Mnemonic normalisation...
This interview is based on Rob Walker and Kay Sidebottom's article 'If you tolerate mis(ogyny), then fascisms will be next: rewriting the classroom script through...
This interview is based on Meaghan Furlano's article 'Manosphere creep: Emotional and hermeneutic labour in Netflix’s Adolescence' Furlano, M. (2025). Manosphere creep:...
This interview is based on Daniel Balinhas's article 'Bringing critical social psychology to the study of political polarization' Balinhas, D. (2023). Bringing critical...
This interview is based on Pasko Kisić-Merino's PhD thesis 'Enjoying the Fall: The Normalisation of the Far-Right as an Algorithmically-Mediated Fantasy of Ontological...
This interview is based on Mohamed Salhi's article 'Reinventing the Right in Morocco: Right-Wing Populist Discourses and Sentiments in Moroccan Online Spaces' Salhi, M....
This interview is based on Georgios Samaras's article 'Hide and seek: extreme-right leadership and communication tactics behind bars in Greece' Samaras, G. (2025). Hide...
This interview is based on Claire Burchett's thesis 'Everyday victimhood on social media: The discussion of Jews and (anti-)antisemitism in the populist radical right...
Interview: Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming (George Newth)
This interview with George Newth is based on his recent article co-authored with Katy Brown and Aurelien Mondon: Newth GH, Brown K, Mondon A. Researching and...
This interview is based on Reid Kleinberg's new article: Kleinberg, R. (2025). Paleo-libertarianism articulated: the DeVos dynasty and the dire consequences of extreme...
This interview is based on Lazaros Karavasilis's new article: Karavasilis, L. (2025). What we talk about when we talk about ‘the elite’ in populism studies:...
This interview, conducted by Fran Amery, is based on Sandra Duffy's recent article 'Moral panics and legal projects: echoes of Section 28 in United Kingdom transgender...
Alison Phipps is Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University, and Honorary Professor in the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York. She is also a...
This interview is based on Alex Yates and Aurelien Mondon’s article ‘‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the...
This interview is based on Fran Amery’s article ‘Gender critical’ feminism as biopolitical project published in Sexualities (2025). *** The anti-trans movement in the...
This interview is based on Odilon Caldeira Neto’s book Neo-Fascism and the Far Right in Brazil published Cambridge University Press (2025). *** In your book, you use...
This interview is based on Charlène Calderaro’s article Beyond Instrumentalization: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France published in Politics &...
This interview is based on Liam Gillespie’s article ‘On the proximity of the far right and the misuses of the ‘mainstreaming’ metaphor' published in Identities (2024)....
This interview is based on Emmy Eklundh and Sebastián Ronderos's article 'Studying affect through discourse theory: Towards a methodology of practice' published in The...