Aaron Winter: The Extreme Right

Aaron Winter holds a DPhil from Sussex, where his dissertation was on the far-right in post-civil rights America. He is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at UEL. His research is on right-wing extremism and terrorism, hate groups and hate crime, and racist and racialised violence. He has been interviewed by the BBC, CBC, LBC, The Times, The Telegraph, Vice and Gara. He is co-editor of Discourses and Practices of Terrorism: Interrogating Terror (2010), New Challenges for the EU Internal Security Strategy (2013) and Reflexivity in Criminological Research Experiences with the Powerful and the Powerless (2014). His most recent article is ‘Articulations of Islamophobia: From the Extreme to the Mainstream?’ in Ethnic and Racial Studies (co-authored with Aurelien Mondon). He is currently co-editing the books: Historical Perspectives on Organised Crime and Terrorism and Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method, Practice, as well as the Manchester University Press Series Racism, Resistance and Social Change. He is also part of the ESRC project Racism and Political Mobilisation and London Scholars project Step Up To Stop Hate.Aaron is also a Trustee of the British Sociological Association. Some research that has influenced Aaron's career Jessie Daniels (2016), White Lies: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse Chip Berlet and Mathew Lyons (2000), Right-Wing Populism inAmerica: Too Close for Comfort Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement by David Chalmers Some of Aaron's key research Anti-Abortion Extremism and Violence in the US (2013) My Enemies Must Be Friends: The American Extreme Right, Conspiracy Theory, Islam and the MiddleEast (2014) Articulations of Islamophobia: From the Extreme to the Mainstream?’ (2018) Counter-Terrorism in the USA Prior to 9/11 (Forthcoming 2018)