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Research & Publications

Publications: Publications
BGJ tackles Gellner

Current Projects

  • Accelerationism & new media

  • An alternative model for understanding the spread of neo-Nazism among Western youth

  • Buddism & 21st century esoteric neo-Nazism

Monographs

2026                   A Concise History of Hate in the West                                                                                                                        *co-authored with Dr David Myers (UCLA)

Q4 2025             The Revolution Will Be Colonized: Western Nationalists in the Long ’68

TBD                    Alpha: James Mason and His Neo-Nazi Lone Wolf Army

Journal Articles

2023                   ‘Siege: “Sheer Political Terror”,’ Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 1-21 
                            *co-authored with Dr Matthew Feldman (University of York)
2020                   ‘Constructing a Neo-Nazi Group in the Age of New Media: A Small Case Study,’ Public Jurist, 23-32
2020                   ‘Sexual Dysfunction in the “Eden of Love”: Psychosocial Responses to Impotence in British First                                     World War Veterans,’ Twentieth Century British History (31), 27-50

Book Chapters

TBD                    ‘The Enemy of My Enemy Is Still My Enemy: Militant White Supremacism and The Conspiratorial                                     Mindset’ stage: accepted as part of untitled Oxford University Press book, awaiting final edits
2021                   ‘The Radical Right Is Weaponising COVID-19 Online,’ The Radical Right During Crisis
2020                   ‘Far-Right Terrorism Is Now Britain’s Fastest Growing Problem,’ Mainstreaming the Global Radical                                  Right
2019                   ‘This Flag Is Your Flag, This Flag Is My Flag: The Alt-Right’s Appropriation of the American Flag,’                                     Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally

Green Papers & Research Analysis

2024                   Global Network on Extremism & Technology, ‘The Dark Truth About Cats and Dogs: The                                                  Xenophobic Underbelly of the Springfield Conspiracy Theory’
2024                   Global Network on Extremism & Technology, ‘Racists Ridicule “Zion Don” After Foiled Assassination’
2024                   Betweentimes, ‘Doubting Jordan: 12 Questions for Peterson on His Hermeneutics of Gender’
2024                   The Radicalist, ‘On Radicalism with Bethan Johnson’ *published interview with David Josef Volodzko
2023                   Betweentimes, ‘NSC 131 – The Big Bad Bullies of the North East’
2023                   Betweentimes, ‘“What Is a Woman?” Doc Is a Trojan Horse – Clear Attacks on “Gender Ideology”                                  Cloak Racist Messages’
2022                   Private Entity Commission, ‘Reich Redux?: Neo-Nazism in the Potential Aftermaths of the Ukraine-                                  Russia War’
2022                   Global Network on Extremism & Technology, ‘‘Tis the Season to Sell Extremism: Far-Right Christmas                              Ads and the Parallel Economy’
2022                   Global Network on Extremism & Technology, ‘“All my Heroes are Dead”: The Untimely Demise of The                              American Futurist – James Mason Partnership’
2022                   Fair Observer, ‘How Dangerous Are COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories In Italy?’ *co-authored with                                      researcher Francesca Gentile
2022                   Fair Observer, ‘The Role of Animals in National Socialist Propaganda’
2021                   The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, ‘Siege Culture After Siege: Anatomy of a Neo-Nazi                                  Terrorist Doctrine’
2021                   Global Network on Extremism & Technology, ‘The Race War May No Longer Be Digitised: James                                     Mason’s Designation as a Terrorist Entity in Canada’ *co-authored with Dr Matthew Feldman
2021                   Rantt Media, ‘Terrorism Outlawed: Why the UK’s Ban of Neo-Nazi Group The Base Is Important’
2021                   Betweentimes, ‘“Facebook Jail” & The New Meme “Avoiding” Moderation’
2021                   Fair Observer, ‘The Godfather of Fascist Terrorism’ *co-authored with Dr Matthew Feldman
2021                   openDemocracy, ‘The Radical Right is learning from the GameStop squeeze’
2020                   openDemocracy, ‘Boys to men: the violent teenagers of the radical right’
2020                   Fair Observer, ‘Are We Ready to Drop the Term “Islamist” in Reference to Terrorism?’
2020                   Writing the Troubles, ‘Republican Masculinity and the “Troubles”’
2019                   Fair Observer, ‘Far-Right Terrorism Is Now Britain’s Fastest Growing Problem’
2019                   openDemocracy, ‘Cancel Morrissey? – controversy over music and free speech’
2019                   Fair Observer, ‘What Makes a Christchurch-Style Attack Feels So Likely in Britain?’
2019                   Rantt Media, ‘The Radical Right Seeks To Recruit Among Anti-Corporate Activists’ 
2019                   Fair Observer, ‘Tracking German Neo-Nazism Through Music’

Book Reviews

2024                   Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies, ‘Canadian Multiculturalism and the Far Right:                                      Walter J. Bossy and the Origins of the ‘Third Force’, 1930s-1970s’
2019                   London School of Economics Review of Books, ‘In Occult Features of Anarchism’
2019                   London School of Economics Review of Books, ‘Remembering Women’s Activism’
2019                   London School of Economics Review of Books, ‘Race Women Internationalists’

Research Presentations

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Buddhist Themes Within Twenty-First Century White Supremacism

25th  Annual World Convention, Association for the Study of Nationalities

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Masculinity and the Irish Republican Psyche of the Troubles

Fifth Annual Cambridge-Edinburgh Joint Conference

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Che in County Armagh, Mao in Monmouthshire: Irish and Welsh Nationalists' Cooptation of Non-Western Radical Thought, 1960-1980

New Postcolonial Concerns: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop, University of Cambridge

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40 years of Siege: the evolution and exportation of James Mason's "cookbook and guide" to extremism

Vortex - Variations of Radicalization, Terrorism and Extremism
University of Gothenburg

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The Globalization of Nationalism: The IRA as Case Study

Fourth Annual Cambridge Edinburgh Joint Conference

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Diagnosing the Hidden Disability: Recovering the Subjective Experiences of Impotent Great War Veterans Through the Archives

The First World War: Past, Present, Future

Edinburgh Napier University

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Bombs & Borders: Celtic Fringe Nationalism's Embrace of Extreme Sectarian Violence and Mass Civil Unrest, 1960-1980

The Centre for Modern British Studies

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Women's Work in Western Liberation Movements, 1960-1975

Thanks for Typing: Wives, Daughters, Mothers, and Other Women Behind Famous Men Conference, University of Oxford

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Che in Spain, Fanon in France: The European Cooptation of Non-Western National Liberationsim, 1960-1980

24th  Annual World Convention, Association for the Study of Nationalities

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Women and Patriarchy in the Militant Separatist Groups of Western Europe and North America During the Long '68

University of Cambridge

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Forms of Extreme Protest in the Post-War West

Festival of Ideas, University of Cambridge

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Cultures of Nationalist Militancy

Cultural History Workshop, University of Cambridge

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Human Rights, Self-Determination, and the Rhetoric of Violent Separatists in Western Society, 1960-1970

The 29th Annual Conference of the Association of Ethnicities and Nationalism

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Reassessing National Separatism in Late Franco Era Spain

Spain: Social Movements between Past and Present Conference

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