CIRAF

Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far-right

[CIRAF @CIRAF_Network]

Look out for our online & in-person events, including:
- Brexit and higher education (Feb)
- The rise of Christian Nationalism (March)
- Brexit: a retrospective (Apr)
- The 2026 UK elections: panel event (May)
- Workshop: Learning from 2016, navigating 2026, imagining 2036 (May)

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Event series 2026

Looking Forward / Looking Back: Learning from 2016 a decade on.

2016 has become known as the year the far- and populist-right broke into the mainstream. A lot has happened in the long decade since then, and CIRAF is using 2026 as an opportunity for reflection.

[CIRAF @CIRAF_Network]

In this year's events, we ask: What have been the major themes and patterns that brought us to this place? How can we understand our present condition? And looking forward a decade to 2036, what could the future hold?

[Vanessa E. Thompson @v_e_thompson]

"Critical Engagements with Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism" is now out with Studies in Political Economy. Some rad pieces, @RaulZelik and I also contributed a piece: https://t.co/QNF4X3h1Ty

[Stanley Hughes @sehguhyelnats]

#bristolcity #woke

[Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon]

Great analysis by @Katy_Brown4

"The far right is not some threat lying waiting in the future – its normalisation is happening now"

https://t.co/hHJNA9dyTd

[Aaron Winter @aaronzwinter]

Looking forward to participating in this @CIRAF_Network webinar today

[Kate Barber @katebarber2015]

📣 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 👇

[Manès Weisskircher @ManesWeissk]

Here comes the sun 🌞 New publication with @SabineDVolk!

"The People against the Sun? Ideology & Strategy in Far-Right Parties' #Climate #Obstruction of Solar Energy" now out in @Env_Pol.

➡️ https://t.co/DumPzOgD3j #openaccess

This is part of my #REXKLIMA research group. (1/3)

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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 - @aaronzwinter & Chris Allen.

Sign up: https://t.co/12AEj40oAt

[Uygar Baspehlivan @DrUBaspehlivan]

Have a look at our introduction for this Interventions section I guest edited with my friend Elisabeth Moerking for @csosjournal. It comprises some great short-form creative interventions on the micro-, ordinary affective politics of global reaction.

https://t.co/zSfWwTURzq

[CIRAF @CIRAF_Network]

You beat us to it 😄 We can't wait!

[Aaron Winter @aaronzwinter]

Looking forward to taking part in this event next month:

The 2024 riots, the far right and racism

@CIRAF_Network Seminar

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:00 - 17:30 GMT Online

@NatiAnneHall

You can register here:
https://t.co/OE93gvEtHf

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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...

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📣 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: https://t.co/pzHMDu70lC

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📣 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: https://t.co/pzHMDu70lC

[Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon]

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/

https://t.co/mLXbw2Hltg

[CIRAF @CIRAF_Network]

Ooh this looks interesting!

[Alex Yates @alexkyates2000]

📣New open access publication in @JournalPolitics 📣

We talk a lot about pluralism as populism’s supposed opposite in populism studies, but what does pluralism actually mean? More importantly, what do we want it to mean? 🧵

https://t.co/CoJFiagy31

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Slightly delayed tweet, but it was great to hear @lizzypearson reference the brilliant former CIRAF member Kat Williams in her fascinating @BirthingNation talk on masculinity & the UK far right recently.

(Find more of Kat's work on women in the AfD here: https://t.co/OxLHtK94NM)

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This is today - could be v interesting!

[Dr Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson]

Join me online on Monday for discussion with Birthing the Nation of riots, extremism and gender - and how the US election result impacts efforts to counter extremism. 👇🏿👇🏽👇

[CIRAF @CIRAF_Network]

Could be a great new initiative

[The Helsinki Notebooks @HelsinkiNB]

THN Mission Statement: https://t.co/bwrZ4X8zJN

[Andrea Pirro @AndreaPirro]

🔥 We have a new article out in @jepp_journal 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

https://t.co/gh5E2FhC7S