Academic publications - Aurelien Mondon

Mondon, A., & Winter, A. (2019). Whiteness, populism and the racialisation of the working class in the United Kingdom and the United States. Identities, 26(5), 510–528. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2018.1552440

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, 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.

Mondon, A (2015) ‘Populism, the people and the illusion of democracy: the Front National and UKIP in a comparative context’, French Politics, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 141–156.

Mondon, A (2015) ‘The French secular hypocrisy: the extreme right, the Republic and the battle for hegemony’, Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 392-413.

Mondon, A (2014) ‘The Front National in the twenty-first century: From pariah to republican democratic contender’, Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 301-320.

Mondon, A (2013) ‘Nicolas Sarkozy’s legitimization of the Front National: background and perspectives’, Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 22-40.

Mondon, A (2012) ‘An Australian immunisation to the extreme right?’, Social Identities, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 355-372.

Reviews or commentary in peer-reviewed journals

Farkas J and Mondon A (2025) ‘The Roots of Reactionary Tech Oligarchy and the Need for Radical Democratic Alternatives’. Communication, Culture and Critique, 18(2), 123-126.

Amery, F., & Mondon, A. (2025). Anti-Gender Movements in Who’s Afraid of Gender: Marginal or Mainstream? Contemporary Sociology, 54(3), 190-193.

Policy Report

Mondon, A and Winter A (2024) ‘Creating a crisis: Immigration, racism and the 2024 general election’, Runnymede Trust Report, https://www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/creating-a-crisis-immigration-racism-and-the-2024-general-election

Symposium

Mondon A and Winter A (2021) ‘Returning to Reactionary Democracy: reviews, responses and reflections’, Symposium on Reactionary Democracy, Ethnic and Racial Studies (44)13, 2408-2413.

Book chapters

Brown, K., & Mondon, A. (2026) ‘The media and the mainstreaming of the far right: reporting, enabling or countering?’ in The Far Right and the Media: International Trends and Perspectives, Richards, I (ed). Routledge.

Mondon, A (2024) ‘Far Right Studies and the unbearable whiteness of being’ in Vaughan et al (eds) The ethics of researching the far right. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Joseph-Salisbury, R, Connelly, L and Mondon, A (2024) ‘An anti-racist scholar-activist ethic: Working in service to racial justice’ in Vaughan et al (eds) The ethics of researching the far right. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Goyvaerts, J., Brown, K., Mondon, A., De Cleen, B. and Glynos, J. (2024) ‘On the Politics of ‘Populism’: The Case of Populist Hype’ in Katsambekis, G. and Stavrakakis, Y. (eds) Elgar Research Handbook on Populism. Cheltenham: Elgar.

Mondon, A (2022) ‘Populist Hype’ in Luca Mannucci (ed), The Populism Interviews: A Dialogue with Leading Experts, Abingdon: Routledge.

Begum, N, Mondon, A & Winter A (2021) Between the ‘Left Behind’ and ‘The People’: Racism, Populism and the Construction of the ‘white working class’ in the context of Brexit. In Hunter S & van der Westhuizen, C (eds) Routledge Handbook of Critical Whiteness Studies. London: Routledge.

Brown K, Mondon A & Winter A (2021) “I’m not ‘racist’ but”: Liberalism, Populism and Euphemisation in the Guardian. In Des Freedman (ed) Capitalism’s conscience: 200 years of the Guardian. London: Pluto.

Mondon, A & Winter, A (2020) Far-Right Research: Between Demonisation, Legitimisation and Normalisation. In Ashe S, Busher J, Macklin G & Winter A (eds) Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice. London: Routledge.

De Cleen, B, Glynos, J, & Mondon, A (2021) Populism as Political Logic and Signifier: The Radical Right in Western Europe in Moffitt, B, Ostiguy, P & Panizza, F (eds) ‘Populism in a Global Perspective: Performative and Discursive Approach’. London: Routledge.

Mondon A & Winter A (2020) Racist Movements, the Far Right and Mainstreaming. In Solomos J (Ed) Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Racisms. London: Routledge.

Mondon, A (2019) From despair, to hope, to limbo: The French elections and the future of the Republic. in Mondon, A, Parish, N, Demossier, M & Lees, D (eds) Handbook for French politics and culture. London: Routledge.

Glynos, J & Mondon, A (2019) The political logic of populist hype: The case of right-wing populism’s ‘meteoric rise’ and its relation to the status quo. in P Cossarini & F Vallespín (eds), Populism and Passions: Democratic Legitimacy after Austerity. Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory, Routledge.

Mondon, A & Winter, A (2019) Mapping and Mainstreaming Islamophobia: Between the illiberal and liberal. in I Zempi & I Awan (eds), The Routledge International Handbook of Islamophobia. Routledge, Abingdon.

Mondon, A & Winter, A (2018) Liberal and Illiberal Islamophobias. in I Ingham-Barrow (ed.), More than words: Approaching a definition of Islamophobia. MEND.

Fleming, A & Mondon, A (2018) The Radical Right in Australia. in J Rydgren (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right. Oxford University Press.

Mondon, A & Winter, A (2017) Charlie Hebdo, Republican Secularism and Islamophobia. in G Titley, D Freedman, G Khiabany & A Mondon (eds), After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech. Zed Books, London, UK.

Mondon, A (2013) ‘Fair Dinkum’ politics or the end of politics. in G Tavan (ed.), State of the Nation: Essays for Robert Manne. Black Inc, Collingwood, Australia.

Aurelien Mondon – Research

There is no such thing as ‘right-wing populism’: Reclaiming the emancipatory potential of populism in reactionary times

There must be an alternative: Against mainstream defeatism and towards the rejuvenation of the democratic public space

The media and the mainstreaming of the far right: reporting, enabling or countering?

A critique of the polarisation narrative: expanding the limits of democracy, parties and political participation

The pretence of the cordon sanitaire: non-collaboration as a distraction from discursive congruence

The Roots of Reactionary Tech Oligarchy and the Need for Radical Democratic Alternatives

Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming

‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people

Hegemonic defeatism: The mainstreaming of far-right politics in France

I was gonna fight fascism …”: the need for a critical approach to illiberalism

Othering, peaking, populism and moral panics: The reactionary strategies of organised transphobia

Really existing liberalism, the bulwark fantasy, and the enabling of reactionary, far right politics

The far and extreme right in documentaries: euphemisation, exceptionalisation, and humanisation

From Objectivist Bias to Positivist Bias: A Constructivist Critique of the Attitudes Approach to Populism

Conceptualiser la République réactionnaire : entre hype populiste, racisme libéral et normalisation du discours d’extrême droite

The Moral Panic of Islamo-gauchisme in Service of a Colorblind Approach to Racism

The mainstreaming of the far right in France: Republican, liberal and illiberal articulations of racism

Epistemologies of ignorance in far right studies: the invisibilisation of racism and whiteness in times of populist hype

Populism, public opinion, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The ‘immigration issue’ and the construction of a reactionary ‘people’

Populism (studies) does not exist, but it still matters

The far right, the mainstream and mainstreaming: towards a heuristic framework

Populism, the media, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The Guardian’s coverage of populism as a case study

Whiteness, populism and the racialisation of the working class in the United Kingdom and the United States

Critical Research on Populism: Nine Rules of Engagement

Limiting Democratic Horizons to a Nationalist Reaction: Populism, the Radical Right and the Working Class

Articulations of Islamophobia: from the extreme to the mainstream?

The political logic of populist hype: The Case of Right-wing Populism’s ‘Meteoric Rise’ and its Relation to the Status Quo

The French secular hypocrisy: the extreme right, the Republic and the battle for hegemony

Populism, the people and the illusion of democracy: the Front National and UKIP in a comparative context

Nicolas Sarkozy’s legitimization of the Front National: background and perspectives

Aurelien Mondon – Research