Aurelien Mondon

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Aurelien Mondon (he/him) is a Professor of Politics at the University of Bath and co-convenor of the Reactionary Politics Research Network.

His research focuses predominantly on the mainstreaming of reactionary politics through elite discourse.

He is the author of The Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right in France and Australia: A Populist Hegemony? (2013) and co-author of Reactionary democracy: How racism and the populist far right became mainstream (2020) with Aaron Winter. He is the co-editor of After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, racism and free speech (2017) and The Ethics of Researching the Far Right (2024). His work has appeared in various mainstream and expert outlets around the world, including CNN, The Guardian, The Independent, Libération, Newsweek, Le Soir, Mediapart and Al Jazeera.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Professor, University of Bath
  • 2015–2025
    Senior lecturer, University of Bath
  • 2012–2015
    Lecturer, University of Bath

Education

  • 2011 
    La Trobe University, Doctorate in Politics

Publications

  • 2022
    Populism, public opinion, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The ‘immigration issue’ and the construction of a reactionary ‘people’, Politics
  • 2022
    Epistemologies of ignorance in far right studies: the invisibilisation of racism and whiteness in times of populist hype, Acta Politica
  • 2021
    The far right, the mainstream and mainstreaming: towards a heuristic framework, Journal of Political Ideologies
  • 2020
    Reactionary Democracy: How racism and the populist far right became mainstream (co-authored with Aaron Winter), Verso
  • 2020
    Populism, the media and the mainstreaming of the far right: The Guardian’s coverage of populism as a case study, Politics
  • 2014
    Immunisation or contamination? the extreme right in Australia, Routledge
  • 2013
    The mainstreaming of the extreme right in France and Australia: a populist hegemony? , Ashgate
  • 2013
    Nicolas Sarkozy's legitimization of the Front National: background and perspectives., Patterns of Prejudice
  • 2012
    An Australian immunisation to the extreme right?, Social Identities

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