Aaron Winter
Dr. Aaron Winter (BA Hons. York; MA Warwick, DPhil Sussex) is Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Race and Anti-Racism), Deputy Doctoral Director and Director of the Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities (CASEI) at Lancaster University. He previously taught at the Universities of Brighton, Sussex, Abertay and East London.
His research is on the far right with a focus on racism, historical change, mainstreaming, violence, counterextremism and counterterrorism. He is co-editor of the books Discourses and Practices of Terrorism: Interrogating Terror (Routledge 2010), Reflexivity in Criminological Research: Experiences with the Powerful and Powerless (Palgrave 2014), Historical Perspectives on Organised Crime and Terrorism (Routledge 2018) and Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice (Routledge 2020), and co-author, with Aurelien Mondon, of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso 2020). He has published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Journal of Political Ideologies, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Sociological Research Online, and Women and Performance, as well as openDemocracy, The Independent, Discover Society, Novara Media and Jacobin.
He has advised a range of organisations, governmental bodies, local councils and educational institutions on issues related to understanding and challenging racism and the far right, and has appeared frequently in the media, including: BBC, NBC, LBC, France 24, The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, NewStatesman, Al Jazeera, HuffPost, Washington Post, der Freitag, Le Temps, Financial Times, Christian Science Monitor, Radio France, Times Radio, Aftenposten, Kathimerini, Green European Journal, Vice and Wired. He has also appeared on numerous podcasts, including: Politics Theory Other, Surviving Society, The Sociological Show, HOPE not hate, The Malcolm Effect, and Yeah Nah Pasaran!
He is co-editor of the journal Identities and the Manchester University Press (MUP) series Racism, Resistance and Social Change, and sits on the Board of Trustees of the Sociological Review Foundation and Runnymede Trust, editorial board of Ethnic and Racial Studies, and organising committee of the Reactionary Politics Research Network (RPRN). He previously served as Trustee and Race and Ethnicity Study Group Convenor at the British Sociological Association (BSA), Associate Editor of Sociological Research Online, and member of the HEFCE REF21 Criminology Consultation Advisory Group and QAA Sociology Benchmarking Group.
