Dr Aaron Winter
Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Race and Anti-Racism)Profile
Aaron Winter, BA Hons. Political Science (York, Canada), MA Philosophy and Social Theory (Warwick, UK), DPhil Social and Political Thought (Sussex, UK), is Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Race and Anti-Racism) at Lancaster University. Prior to Lancaster, he taught at the Universities of East London, Abertay, Sussex and Brighton. His research is on the far right with a focus on racism, mainstreaming and violence, and on race, counterextremism and counterterrorism. He is co-author, with Aurelien Mondon, of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso, 20202), and co-editor of Discourses and Practices of Terrorism: Interrogating Terror (Routledge, 2010), New Challenges for the EU Internal Security Strategy (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), Reflexivity in Criminological Research Experiences with the Powerful and the Powerless (Palgrave, 2014), Historical Perspectives on Organised Crime and Terrorism (Routledge, 2018) and Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method, Practice (Routledge, 2020). He has published in the journals Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Political Ideologies, Sociological Research Online, and Women and Performance, and is co-editor of Identities and the Manchester University Press (MUP) book series Racism, Resistance and Social Change. He has been interviewed by the BBC, CBC, LBC, NBC, Radio France, The Washington Post, The Times, The Telegraph, Wired, NewStatesman, HuffPost, Oriental Morning Post, Dundee Courier and Gara,. He has also appeared on the podcasts Surviving Society, Politics Theory Other, The Malcolm Effect, Who do we think we are?, Enemies of the People Pod, The Sociology Show, and Hope Not Hate. For further information and publications please see: https://uel.academia.edu/AaronWinter
PhD Supervision Interests
I am happy to supervise PhD students whose projects relate to my research interests, including racism and anti-racism, race and class, the far right, fascism, populism, hate crime, extremism/counterextremism and terrorism/counterterrorism.
Step Up to Stop Hate (London Scholars)
01/01/2017 → 31/12/2018
Other
Racism and political mobilisation: learning from history and thinking internationally (ESRC)
12/01/2015 → 31/01/2017
Other
Ethnic and Racial Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity
The Ethics of Visual Analysis: Researcher Safety and Wellbeing and Responsible Practice and Publication
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Through the Looking Glass
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Racial Equity in Policy Network Launch Event
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG) Online Human Rights Academy 2023
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Counterextremism, Counterterrorism and Carcerality, Refusing Carcerality - A Public Roundtable, British International Studies Association (BISA) Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) working group event
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
On Reactionary Democracy and the Mainstreaming of Racism and the Populist Far Right: What Next?, Birkbeck, University of London MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity and Race Forum Public Lecture:
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment Workshop: The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Journal)
Editorial activity
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Journal)
Editorial activity
Manchester University Press (Publisher)
Editorial activity
- Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities
- Security Lancaster
- Security Lancaster (Policing)
- Security Lancaster (Policy, Law and Ethics)
- Security Lancaster (Sociology)