Co-convenor of the Reactionary Politics Research Network.

Research interests:

• The mainstreaming of far right and reactionary discourse and politics
• Liberal and Illiberal articulations of reactionary politics in elite discourse
• Populist hype and the construction of 'the people' as a threat to democracy

Selected publications:

Books

Mondon A and Winter A (2020) Reactionary Democracy: How racism and the populist far right became mainstream. London: Verso.

Titley, Gavan, Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany & Aurelien Mondon (eds.) (2017) After Charlie Hebdo: Politics, Media and Free Speech, London: Zed.

Mondon A (2013) Mainstreaming the Extreme Right in France and Australia: A Populist Hegemony? Farnham: Ashgate.

Edited books

Vaughan, A, Tinsley, M, Braune, J & Mondon, A (eds) (2024 forthcoming) The ethics of researching the far right, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Mondon, A, Parish, N, Demossier, M & Lees, D (eds) (2019) Handbook for French politics and culture. London: Routledge.

Titley, Gavan, Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany & Aurelien Mondon (eds.) (2017) After Charlie Hebdo: Politics, Media and Free Speech, London: Zed.

Peer-reviewed articles

Mondon, A. (2024) ‘Really existing liberalism, the bulwark fantasy, and the enabling of reactionary, far right politics’, Constellations.

Mondon, A. (2024) ‘“I was gonna fight fascism …”: the need for a critical approach to illiberalism’, Illiberalism Studies, 4(1), 9-18.

Mondon, A (2024) ‘Conceptualiser la République réactionnaire : entre hype populiste, racisme libéral et normalisation du discours d’extrême droite’, POLI, 17.

Shuttleworth, L., Okonkwo, K., Bremner, F. and Mondon, A. (2024) ‘The far and extreme right in documentaries: euphemisation, exceptionalisation, and humanisation’, Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Kim, S. and Mondon, A. (2024) ‘From objectivist bias to positivist bias: A constructivist critique of the attitudes approach to populism’, Political Studies Review.

Beaman, J and Mondon A (2023) ‘The Moral Panic of Islamo-gauchisme in service of a colourblind approach to racism’, Contemporary French & Francophone Studies.

Mondon, A (2022) ‘Epistemologies of ignorance in far right studies: the invisibilisation of racism and whiteness in times of populist hype’, Acta Politica, online first.

Mondon, A (2022) ‘Populism, public opinion, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The ‘immigration issue’ and the construction of a reactionary ‘people’’, Politics, Online First.

Brown K, Mondon A & Winter A (2021) ‘The far right, the mainstream and mainstreaming: towards a heuristic framework’, Journal of Political Ideologies. Online first.

Brown K & Mondon A (2020) ‘Populism, the media and the mainstreaming of the far right: The Guardian’s coverage of populism as a case study’, Politics, online first

Mondon A & Winter A (2018) 'Whiteness, Populism and the racialisation of the working-class in the United Kingdom and the United States', Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 26(5): 510–528.

De Cleen, B, Glynos, J & Mondon, A (2018) 'Critical Research on Populism: Nine Rules of Engagement', Organization, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 649-661.

Mondon, A (2017) 'Limiting democratic horizons to a nationalist reaction: populism, the radical right and the working class', Javnost - The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 355-374.

Mondon, A & Winter, A (2017) 'Articulations of Islamophobia: From the Extreme to the Mainstream?', Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 40, no. 13, pp. 2151-2179.

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Aurelien Mondon has published widely in the mainstream and more specialised media such as CNN, the Guardian, The Independent, Open Democracy, Jacobin, Newsweek, DiscoverSociety, Libération