PhDing in Bath • Researching anti-populism • 'Moral panic breeds goose-stepping, can't just stand by rubbernecking' • he/himhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3mjhnj7sj7c2z📣New article📣 'There is no such thing as 'right-wing populism.' Check it out below! https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-political-research/article/there-is-no-such-thing-as-rightwing-populism-reclaiming-the-emancipatory-potential-of-populism-in-reactionary-times/A60E7EB7FA41E1023376E0134CD4BF63 [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Apr 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhnj7sj7c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3mibwtovv7s2t📣New publication📣 '‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti-Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’' or how the Commission constructs the threat of 'populism' to deflect from its own exclusionary policies and discourses https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcms.70098 🧵 1/30 Mar 2026 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibwtovv7s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3mhxho62kms27📣New publication 📣 'A Cure for ‘Populism’? Diagnostic and Prognostic Framing in Anti-Populist Political Punditry' in @psrjournal.bsky.social. In this paper, I show how the 'cures' prescribed by anti-populists are elite-centric and embolden reactionary politics. 🧵 /1 https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929926142977226 Mar 2026 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxho62kms27https://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3mhioohaxbs2hThe Bath branch of @reacpolrn.bsky.social has put together a policy study on the progressive strategies needed to halt the mainstreaming of the far right. Check it out below 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Mar 2026 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhioohaxbs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3meqd7t24kc2jThis is sure to be a great event. For anyone interested in decolonial studies, feminist thought, democratic theory, psychoanalysis, or (anti-)populism make sure you sign up to this hybrid book launch below! [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Feb 2026 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3meqd7t24kc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3me73qplzm22tSo excited about the launch of our two new publications at @reacpolrn.bsky.social. For critical interventions which deal with questions of resistance and strategy in the global reactionary moment, please consider submitting your work to Red Lines. reacpol.net/red-lines/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Feb 2026 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3me73qplzm22thttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3lruhxbhty22tIt's not only Trump: The Home Office under Starmer and Cooper is tearing families apart just like ICE. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/18/uk-home-office-brazilian-family-children-return-alone?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other18 Jun 2025 07:21 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lruhxbhty22thttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3lqrwsciy7k2uThis was a pleasure to be involved with last year. Sign up for this free(!), hybrid summer school on critical approaches to the study of reactionary politics. Deadlines for applications 15th July. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jun 2025 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqrwsciy7k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3lp4s6faw4k2jNope! This week has been a full-throated embrace by Starmer of the racism that has been immanent in mainstream discourse on migration for decades. 'Populism' has precisely nothing to do with it.14 May 2025 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp4s6faw4k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3lnzflcxqcc2d"Instead of popular sovereignty, for anti-populism, democratic desires should be repressed for the common good: the return of depoliticised enjoyment for all." [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2025 08:41 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnzflcxqcc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3lmcha3y5ec2xCheck out my interview with @reacpolrn.bsky.social on my paper (co-authored w/ @aurelmondon.bsky.social) which looks at how anti-populist discourses construct their own versions of 'the people' and 'the elite' for post-democratic ends. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Apr 2025 12:14 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmcha3y5ec2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3lgbaccrfgs27📣 New blog for @populismpsa.bsky.social 📣 'What Should Pluralism Mean in Populism Studies?' In this blog, I encourage populism scholars to think more critically about pluralism and its relationship with left-wing populism. Check it out below! https://www.psapopulism.org/blog/research/alex-yates-what-should-pluralism-mean-in-populism-studies21 Jan 2025 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgbaccrfgs27https://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3lfcnqab3r22g📣 New open access article w/ @aurelmondon.bsky.social in @bjpir.bsky.social 📣 We discuss how anti-populist discourse constructs a circumscribed version of 'the people', whose only proper role is to support 'good' and 'responsible' liberal elites. Check it out below! [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Jan 2025 12:14 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfcnqab3r22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3lelrlh7r3c2jThe Telegraph, Mail, and Express exist to shape elite opinion by claiming to speak for "the people." Starmer's "small boats week" shows how effective this right-wing media apparatus remains. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Dec 2024 09:52 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lelrlh7r3c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3lcn7htq2zc2y📣 New open access publication in @politicsjournal.bsky.social 📣 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02633957241301630 We about pluralism a lot in populism studies as populism’s supposed opposite, but what does pluralism actually mean? More importantly, perhaps, what do we want it to mean? 🧵06 Dec 2024 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcn7htq2zc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexyates2000.bsky.social/post/3lcmqsswdfc2yYesterday, Starmer called 'populism' the politics of 'easy answers', yet said it fed off 'real concerns' people have regarding migration. Check out my piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on how his anti-populism marginalises the left whilst mainstreaming the far right. https://jacobin.com/2024/10/keir-starmer-anti-populism-labour06 Dec 2024 08:20 +0000at://did:plc:cqboj3dsofenbgfzpsag6tga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcmqsswdfc2y