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.

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) 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

Roch, J., Balinhas, D. and Mondon, A. (2026) ‘A critique of the polarisation narrative: Expanding the limits of democracy, parties and political participation’, Contemporary Political Theory. 25(5). 

Shuttleworth, L., Brown, K. and Mondon A. (2025) ‘The pretence of the cordon sanitaire: non-collaboration as a distraction from discursive congruence’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, online first.

Newth, G., Brown, K. and Mondon A. (2025) ‘Researching and understanding far-right politics in times of mainstreaming’, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, online first.

Yates, A. and Mondon, A. (2025) ‘Get off your high horse and vote for us: the anti-populist construction of the elite and the people’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, online first.

Mondon, A. (2024) ‘Hegemonic defeatism: The mainstreaming of far-right politics in France’, Parliamentary Affairs, online first.

Amery, F. and Mondon, A. (2024) ‘Othering, peaking, populism and moral panics: The reactionary strategies of organised transphobia’, The Sociological Review, online first.

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

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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