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A recording of last week’s panel on research on former members of the far-right and far-right participants is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htxYs2CCqRI. The panel included chapter authors from a section of The Ethics of Researching the Far Right and was cosponsored by the Reactionary Politics Research Network and C-REX, the Center for Research on Extremism basedContinue reading “Panel Recording: Ethics of Researching Formers and Far-Right Participants”

The Ethics of Researching the Far Right is now out in a more affordable paperback version.

I am pleased to be speaking on and chairing this panel on February 20, with chapter authors from The Ethics of Researching the Far Right. See more here, and sign up for this and upcoming webinars:

New review of my work in Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy:

I am pleased to share long-time antifascist scholar-activist David Renton’s review of The Ethics of Researching the Far Right. I am grateful that Renton appreciated my chapter on the ethical problems involved in trusting and amplifying the narratives of former members of far-right movements: “Joan Braune’s contribution – for me, the highlight of the bookContinue reading “David Renton Reviews “Ethics of Researching”!”

I enjoyed doing this interview over the summer with philosopher Aaron Rabinowitz on his podcast Embrace the Void. Needless to say, my book Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void (!!!) to Hope was a natural fit, arguing in fact that a kind of void-embracing is necessary in the struggle against fascism. Listen here: https://www.voidpod.com/podcasts/2024/8/3/understanding-and-countering-fascist-movements-with-joan-braune.

I am speaking tomorrow (Saturday, June 15) to Palouse Democratic Socialists of America at the Washington State University campus and on zoom: 1pm in CUB room 406 at WSU or on Zoom: https://dsausa.zoom.us/j/86454345816Facebook event here for more details: Addressing Far-right Mobilization and Resurgence | Facebook. I’m sorry for the short notice—if there’s a shareable recording, will share. Recent podcastContinue reading “June Updates”

I really enjoyed talking with Andrew Tonkovich on his podcast Bibliocracy about Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements. (I will have to read Gore Vidal’s novel Kalki now!) You can listen to the podcast episode here: https://www.bibliocracyradio.org/episodes/ttnrwcf3w9t7reh-wxmnj-lc6zh-a38sg-kt8xz-g3p77-4rblf-f94r7.

The Ethics of Researching the Far Right: Critical Approaches and Reflections, edited by Antonia Vaughan, Joan Braune, Meghan Tinsley, and Aurelien Mondon, is out now through Manchester University Press. Table of contents and more info: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173874/. Very excited about this excellent collection that is more than a primer, but raises important critical questions that theContinue reading “Out Now: The Ethics of Researching the Far Right”

I am pleased to share this new review of Marcel Stoetzler’s volume Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism (Bloomsbury 2023), in which I have a chapter. In the review, Mike Makin-Waite writes: Amongst the chapters in the second part of the volume, which ‘extend the Frankfurt School-inspired perspective to a range of contemporary matters’,Continue reading “Aliens and Antisemitism”