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Aaron Winter
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Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, @identitiesjournal.bsky.social, has curated a special collection of articles and made them open access.

@tandfresearch.bsky.social
@nasarmeer.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/journals/gid...
January 21, 2026 at 9:31 AM
I'll be keynote speaker at the International Criminology and Global Security Conference (ICGSC) at @teessideuni.bsky.social tomorrow.

My talk is on 'Researching right-wing extremism and terrorism in the middle of a reactionary culture war'. Really looking forward to it.

@lancasteruni.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 5:38 PM
This week, I was interviewed on Sky News about the ICE shooting and killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.

@neonuk.bsky.social
@lancasteruni.bsky.social
@lancasteruninews.bsky.social
January 10, 2026 at 9:43 AM
I'll be the keynote speaker at the ICGSC @teessideuni.bsky.social next week. The theme of the conference is Crime, Security & Society in Context. My talk is on Researching right-wing extremism & terrorism in the middle of a reactionary culture war. Looking forward to it.

@lancasteruni.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Great to finally meet @pdkmitchell.bsky.social in person - in Newcastle for the Launch of the Race and Migration IDRT at Northumbria and drinks.
December 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
4FS
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I'm sorry but a 6 months fixed-term lectureship that includes research, teaching and scholarship and has responsibilities including designing and developing courses, teaching materials and curriculum proposals, income generation, and strategic future orientated planning is absolutely wrong ARU. 1/
October 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Join us for the next #IdentitiesEvent @identitiesjournal.bsky.social

From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness - Dr Jamella N. Gow. Chaired by Dr Aaron Winter

@uofgsocsci.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-colon...
October 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Really looking forward to participating in this event:

Theology, Churches & the Mainstreaming of the Far Right

15 October 2025
7:00-8:30 pm
Online
Register using the QR code
October 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Literature only on the back of British Airways seats. I didn't have any on me though.
September 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I'm in the hotel lobby killing time before my flight and this guy has been staring and smiling for hours.

It's not that I don't realise it's a cardboard cutout, but I'm tired, sick and drifting in and out of sleep so I forget each time I am woken up.
September 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Memòria de la repressió, Barcelona

ajuntament.barcelona.cat/memoriademoc...
September 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
'Change'. Still centrism.

Is this left looking right or centrists nodding at, as opposed to attacking, the left.
September 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Yes, AI can be used to radicalise, spread misinformation and disinformation, but policy and power matter more. Also, don't use AI for a synopsis of films when writing essays or renting.
September 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This is not racist, it's classist & an example of elites attacking anti-racist by projecting racism onto the white working class as if bottom up & defending them against that representation. Old divide-rule & distraction tactic + right wing & @thetimes.com. Why buy & re-sell it @novaramedia.com?
September 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
RIP Graham Greene
September 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
August 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Been thinking about inclusive and anti-fascist symbols
August 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
In my neighborhood. Red paint & property damage at the taxpayer's expense is designated terrorism in some cases & legitimate in others. The politics of this 'double standard' is consistent though: genocide & fascism are acceptable & opposition to them, like migration, is a threat to the nation.
August 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The problem is definitely social media and online radicalisation of our youth ... say politicians and mainstream media.
August 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is a clip from my interview with Raees Khan on BBC Radio Manchester (BBC Local Radio) about Lord Anderson's review of Prevent and the response to the far right following the Southport riots.

@neonuk.bsky.social
@lancasteruninews.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
July 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
You can support racism, fascism and genocide, but not oppose them. That causes outrage, bans and criminal investigations, instead of an endorsement in a major establishment broadsheet - despite the 2024 far right riots. That's where we are.
June 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Social media and youth radicalisation again!
June 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Some good research on this. I came across this catalogue a while back. Had heard about the older stuff, but not the later songs that overlapped with grunge.
June 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Great to see my article on BLM and the far right backlash in the Big Issue

www.bigissue.com/opinion/blac...
June 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM