RADIKAAL

 1. JAMES MONTAGUE

My first guest is the British football writer James Montague, the award-winning author of four books, including When Friday Comes: Football, War and Revolution in the Middle East and Thirty-One Nil: On the Road With Football’s Outsiders. We talked about his new book, 1312: Among the Ultras, a fascinating read about the most radical elements in contemporary football. Highly recommended! James tweets at @JamesPiotr.

2. CATERINA FROIO

My second guest is Caterina Froio, an assistant professor of political science at SciencesPo in Paris and affiliated to the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo. We talk  about far right politics in Italy, focusing in particular on her new (co-authored) book CasaPound Italia: Contemporary Extreme-Right Politics. She tweets at @CaterinaFroio.

 3. CHRISTIAN PICCIOLINI

My third guest is Christian Picciolini, a former neo-Nazi skinhead, who left the movement over a decade ago to devote his life to “breaking the hate” through his Free Radicals Project. He made a three-part special report series entitled “Breaking Hate" for MSNBC and published White American Youth: My Descent Into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement – And How I Got Out and Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism. He tweets at @cpicciolini.

4. TESS OWEN

My fourth guest is Tess Owen, a British journalist who covers the "extremism and guns" beat for VICE News. Tess has recently written several pieces on the Boogaloo Boys. I talked with her about covering the US far right (as a woman), the Boogaloo Boys, and their role in the current protests against institutional racism and police brutality. She tweets at @misstessowen.

5. SHIREEN AHMED

My fifth guest is Shireen Ahmed, a writer, public speaker, and award-winning sports activist focusing on Muslim women in sports, as well as the intersections of racism and misogyny in sports. She also co-hosts the feminist sports podcast Burn It All Down. We talked about the role of athletes in the Black Lives Matter protests. You can follow Shireen on Twitter at @_shireenahmed_.

6. RAFAL PANKOWSKI

My sixth guest is Rafal Pankowski, a Professor at the Institute of Sociology of Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, who has published widely on nativism in Poland. He is also co-founder of the anti-racist ‘Never Again’ Association and a tireless activist to kick racism out of football. We talked about the transformation of the far right in Poland, the democratic challenges that Poland is facing under the current PiS government, and the continuing problem of racism in Polish football. 

7. MATTHEW OWARE

My seventh guest is Matthew Oware. Matthew is the Irving May Professor of Human Relations in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of the University of Richmond in Virginia. His work centers on the intersections of race, class, and gender in popular culture with a particular focus on hip hop music. In 2018 he published the book I Got Say Something to Say: Gender, Race, and Social Consciousness in Rap Musicwith Palgrave.

8.  NICOLE CURATO

My eighth guest is Nicole Curato. Nicole is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra in Australia. Last year she published the book Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedies to Deliberative Action with Oxford University Press. We talked about Rodrigo Duterte and populism in the Philippines. She tweets at @NicoleCurato.

 9. JUSTIN SALHANI

My ninth guest is Justin Salhani, a freelance journalist who has written on both radical politics and football for many different outlets. He lived and worked for several years in Lebanon, where he also almost had a football career. Two of his most recent ventures are also football-related. The first is Guerrilla FC, which started as a football team in Washington DC, but has since evolved into a creative studio and streetwear brand inspired by football culture. The second, founded last month, is the podcast “The Streets Will Remember”, which assesses the legacies of the greatest footballers on and off the pitch. He tweets at @JustinSalhani.

10. BILLY BRAGG

My tenth guest is the singer songwriter and activist Billy Bragg. Billy started his music career in the late 1970s in the band Riff Raff, had a short flirt with the British Army, before embarking on a solo career that has led to twelve albums so far. He is also a tireless political activist for a broad range of progressive causes and groups, including my friends at the anti-racist group Hope not Hate. Finally, he has written several books, including his latest booklet “The Three Dimensions of Freedom”, published with Faber last year. He tweets at @BillyBragg.



11. WINNIE WONG
My eleventh guest is Winnie Wong. Winnie has been at the forefront of almost every major progressive campaign in the US in this century. She was a leading organizer for Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Sandy, and the Women’s March on Washington. She co-founded People for Bernie, and helped develop the viral hashtag “Feel the Bern”. After serving as a Senior Political Advisor to Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign, she is now an Advisor of the Once Again PAC, which strives for “the continuation of everything we’ve been fighting for”.. She tweets at @WaywardWinifred.

12. EVAN SMITH
My twelfth guest is Evan Smith, a Research Fellow in History at Flinders University in Australia. He has published on a broad variety of topics relevant to RADIKAAL, including British Communism, counter-terrorism, as well as fascism and anti-fascism. His latest book is the very timely “No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech”, published by Routledge this year. He tweets at @evanishistory.

14. SITHEMBILE MBETE

My 14th guest is Sithembile Mbete, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, where she teaches on International Relations and South African politics. She has published several articles on the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and is at the start of a book project on populism in South Africa. You can follow her on Twitter at @sthembete..

15. GUILHERME CASARŌES
My guest today is Guilherme Casarões, a Professor of Public Administration, Political Science and International Relations at the Getulio Vargas Foundation. He has mostly published on Brazilian foreign policy, but his more recent interest is in the far right in Brazil, most notably Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. Together with two colleagues he runs the Twitter account Observatório da Extrema Direita (Observatorium of the Extreme Right) at @oedbrasil. He tweets himself at @GCasaroes..

16. SHANNON REID

My 16th guest is Shannon Reid, an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. She has published extensively on youth culture and gangs in the US and her latest book, co-authored with Matthew Valasik of Louisiana State University, is “Alt-Right Gangs: A Hazy Shade of White”, which has been published by the University of California Press. She tweets at at @MourningShannon.

17. MONA LENA KROOK

My 17th guest is Mona Lena Krook, a Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Women and Politics PhD Program at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is one of the foremost scholars on gender and politics and has published many articles and books on the topic. In this episode, we will talk in particular about her newest book, Violence Against Women in Politics, which was published by Oxford University Press earlier this year. If you want to know more about Mona Lena Krook, you can check out her website at mlkrook.org or follow her on Twitter at @mlkrook.

18.  DAPHNE HALIKIOPOULOU

My 18th guest is Daphne Halikiopoulou, a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Reading in England. She has published extensively on nationalism and far right politics in Europe and her latest book, co-authored with Sofia Vasilopoulou of York University, is “The Golden Dawn’s ‘National Solution’: Explaining the Rise of the Far Right in Greece”, which was published by Palgrave in 2015. If you want to know more about Daphne Halikiopoulou, you can follow her on Twitter at @halikiopoulou.

19. GABRIEL KUHN

My 19th guest is Gabriel Kuhn. As an activist and author of books on both music and politics and sports and politics, Gabriel is the personification of RADIKAAL. CAs and Gabriel talk about the complex relationship between the workers movement and football as well as capitalism and football, reminisce about the good old days, and fantasize about a football beyond the Champions League. Gabriel is not on social media, but you should really buy his books, in particular “Soccer vs the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics” and “Playing As If the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sports.”

20. TARA MARTIN LOPEZ

My 20th guest is Tara Martin Lopez. Tara is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences of at Northern New Mexico College. Her work focuses on the intersection between gender, race, and social movements with a particular focus on the US punk movement. She also wrote a book on one of the most tumultuous period in postwar British history, entitled “The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory and History”, which was published by Liverpool University Press in 2014.

Cas and Tara talk about the "winter of discontent" in the UK, about "the greatest punk rock band in the world", and about the punk scene in El Paso, Texas.

21. SOPHIA SOLOMON

My 21st guest is Sophia Solomon, a PhD student in political science at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel. Her current research focuses on civil-military relations in Britain, Canada and Israel, with a particular focus on so-called “shooting soldiers”, i.e. soldiers who killed suspected terrorists after they were captured. However, Sophia and I talk about her previous research, for her MA thesis, which focuses on the Israeli football club Beitar Jerusalem and its infamous ultras/hooligans La Familia, which was recently featured in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

22. LISA NANDY

My 22nd guest is Lisa Nandy, the British Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth and the Labour MP for Wigan since 2010. Lisa and I talk about post-Brexit Britain, about post-Corbyn Labour Party, about antisemitism, populism and progressive patriotism, and about the importance of saving Wigan Athletic. You can follow Lisa on Twitter at @LisaNandy.

23. LOUIS WIERENGA

My guest is Louis Wierenga, a Junior Research Fellow at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies of the University of Tartu, where he works on a PhD on the far right in contemporary Estonia and Latvia. Louis and I talk about far right politics in Estonia, in particular the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE), currently a member of the national coalition government, and its "alt-right" youth branch, Blue Awakening. You can follow him on Twitter at @louis_wierenga.

24. CARLES VIÑAS & NATXO PARRA

ThE 24th episode has a premiere, as I interview two guests, at the same time. Carles Viñasnd is a researcher in the Department of History of the University of Barcelona, and Natxo Parra, a labor lawyer and cooperative partner at Col.lectiu Ronda. Together they wrote the excellent new book St. Pauli: Another Football Is Possible, which just came out with Pluto Press. We talk about the German cult club and role of radical politics in contemporary football. They tweet at @CarlesVinyas and @Natxo_Parra.

 25. AMARNATH AMARASINGAM

My 25th guest is Amarnath Amarasingam, assistant professor in the School of Religion at Queen’s University (Canada) as well as Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, both in London, England. He is the author of Pain, Pride, and Politics: Sri Lankan Tamil Activism in Canada (University of Georgia Press, 2015) and co-editor of Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War (Hurst, 2016). He tweets at @AmarAmarasingam.

26. NICOLE HEMMER

My 26th guest is Nicole Hemmer, an associate research scholar with the Obama Presidency Oral History project at Columbia University. In 2016 she published Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of US Politics with the University of Pennsylvania Press. Nicole is also a columnist at CNN Opinion, founder of the Made in History section of the Washington Post, and co-host of the podcast Past Present. Finally, Nicole did a 6-part podcast on the Unite the Right rally and its historical context, called A12. Nicole and I talk about the US conservative media before and after the 2020 US presidential election. She tweets at @pastpundity.

 27. STANLISAV VYSOTSKY

My 27th guest is Stanislav Vysotsky, associate professor in Criminology at the University of Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of the book, American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism (Routledge, 2020). Stas and I talk about the history and current structure of Antifa in the US, about its views on the use of violence, its effectiveness, and whether or not it constitutes a threat to the fabric of American society .;-)

28. KARIM ZIDAN

My 28th guest is Karim Zidan. Born and raised in Cairo, Egypt, Karim is an investigative reporter who works on the intersection of sports and politics. He has written for many different publications, from mainstream newspapers like The Guardian to specialized blogs like Right-Wing Watch. Karim writes about many sports, from basketball to boxing, but much of his recent work is on Mixed Martial Arts, and he is one of the managers of Bloody Elbow, the MMA and UFC blog of SB Nation.

Karim and I talk about the connections between (fight) sports and (far right) politics, from ultras and the Tahir Square revolution, to Saudi Arabia and sportswashing, and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and the far right.

29. MANISHA TAILOR

My next guest is Manisha Tailor, CEO of Swaggarlicious and coach at the academy of Queens Park Rangers, a London club that plays in The Championship. Manisha is a celebrated activist and speaker on issues related to football, and was awarded a prestigious MBE for services to football and diversity in sport in 2017. Manisha and I will talk about gender and race in football as well as about mental health issues in professional football.

30. LISA ZANOTTI

My 30th guest is Lisa Zanotti, an Associate Researcher at the Research Institute for Social Sciences of the Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. Lisa has written articles on the Great Recession and populism and is co-author, with José Rama, Stuart J. Thurnbull-Dugarte and Andrés Santana, of the new book “VOX: The Rise of the Spanish Populist Radical Right”, which will be out with Routledge this summer and is the topic of this converdsation.

31. DAVID MILIBAND

My 31st guest is David Miliband, CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Previously, David has held several cabinet positions in various Labour governments, including that of British Foreign Secretary. In 2017 he published the TED book “Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time”. David and I talk about the Third Way, the future of social democracy, the plight of refugees, and the "age of impunity" and how to overcome it.

32. CYNTHIA MILLER-IDRISS

My 32nd guest is my colleague and friend Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education at American University, where she runs the new Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) in the Center for University Excellence. She has published many articles and books on the far right, including The Extreme Goes Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany and Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, both with Princeton University Press, in 2017 and 2020, respectively. You can follow her on Twitter at @milleridriss.

33. GOOYONG KIM

My 33rd guest is Gooyong Kim, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at Cheney University of Pennsylvania. She has published extensively on various aspects of K-Pop, including her book "From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls: Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism in South Korea's Popular Music Industry". We talk about the economics, gender, and politics of K-Pop in South Korea.

SES1. SARAH DE LANGE

My guest in this first episode of the new Special Election Series (SES) is my colleague and friend, Sarah de Lange, who holds the Dr. J.M. Den Uyl Chair at the Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on far right and populist politics in Western Europe and is also involved in research on social democratic parties. Sarah itweets at @sldelange. We talk about the recent Dutch election.

34. NADIA MARZOUKI

My 34th guest is Nadia Marzouki, a Research Fellow in Political Science at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France. Her work examines public controversies about Islam and religious freedom in Europe and the United States. She has written and co-edited several books, including Islam, an American Religion (Columbia University Press, 2017) and, with Olivier Roy and Duncan McDonnell, Saving the People, How Populists Hijack Religion (Hurst, 2017). We talk about Islam, Islamophobia,  in France and the US and the newest enemy of the French government, the so-called Islamo-Lefists.

35. DILARA HEKIMCI-ADAK

My 35th guest is Dilara Hekimci-Adak, a graduate student in Political Science at Florida International University in Miami, where she works on a PhD on populists in power and the role of the opposition in Hungary and Turkey. Before coming to the US, she had already done a PhD at Bahcesehir University, in her native Turkey, on clientelism and democracy in Latin America. She also wrote an MA thesis on nationalism and football in Turkey. We will mainly talk about football and politics in Turkey, from the Gezi protests and Istanbul United to the unofficial AKP team, Basaksahir.

36. SAM JACKSON

My guest today is Sam Jackson. Sam is an assistant professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Security at the University at Albany in Upstate New York. He primarily studies the far right in the US, focusing most notably on the militia movement and on online extremism. He is the author of Oath Keepers: Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment Group, published by Columbia University Press in 2020. We will talk about the US militia movement in general and the Oath Keepers in particular. He tweets at @sjacks26.

37. LAURIEN SCHREUDER

My 37th today is Laurien Schreuder, the artistic director of Snowapple, a multidisciplinary, international ensemble that combines theater with a wide range of different music genres, from pop to opera and avant-garde cumbia. Snowapple has spoken out on political issues, most notably violence against women in Mexico. We talk about music and politics in general, and Snowapple’s decision to become active around the issue of femicide in Mexico in particular. If you want to know more about Snowapple, check out their website at www.snowapple.nl or follow them on Twitter at @snowappleNL or on Instagram at @snowapplemusic..

38. POYA PAKZAD

My 38th guest is Poyâ Pâkzâd, economic policy advisor with the Red-Green Alliance, or Unity List, a left-wing party that supports the current minority government of the Social Democrats in Denmark. He is also the editor of the left-wing magazine Eftertryck and a parliamentary candidate for the Red-Green Alliance. Poya and I got into a discussion on Twitter on the challenges of immigration policy for left parties. He tweets at @ppkzd.

We talk about the immigration issue in Denmark and the tension within the Danish left parties over the issue and try to find a better way for the Left in general to deal with the immigration issue in a time of nativist hegemony.

39. DAVID LOWERY

My 39th guest is US singer-songwriter David Lowery, frontman of bands like Camer van Beethoven and Crackere. Less know, he has been teaching courses on the music business in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. David has also been a tireless activist for the right of musicians and a fighter against streaming companies. He is currently involved in a court case against Spotify. He tweets at @davidclowery.

40. LÉONIE DE JONGE

My 40th guest is Léonie de Jonge, an assistant professor in European Politics & Society at the University of Groningen. In 2019 she defended her PhD at the University of Cambridge on “The Success and Failure of Right-wing Populist Parties in the Benelux Countries”, which will be out with Routledge later this month. Léonie is also an up-and-coming commentator in the Dutch media on the topic of the far right as well as a critic of the way the media cover the far right. She tweets at @L_DeJonge.

41. ROBBIE SHILLIAM

My 41st guest is Robbie Shilliam, a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he researches the political and intellectual complicities of colonialism and race in the global order. His latest book is Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction, which is just out with Polity and is a fascinating read. Robbie is also a scholar-activist of the Rastafari movement, involved in a host of activities focused on highlighting the histories and significance of the Rastafari movement for contemporary politics. Two of these projects are Rastafari in Motion, which focuses on Britain, and Iniversial Development of Rastafari, which focuses on the Baltimore and DC area.

42. PAUL MASON

My 42nd guest is Paul Mason, a British journalist, left-wing activist, film maker and prolific author. He has made a four-part documentary on the Greek left populist party SYRIZA called #ThisIsACoup and, more recently, the documentary “R is for Rosa” about the politics of Rosa Luxemburg. Among his books are Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (2017), Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being (2019), and How To Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance, which is forthcoming in August. He tweets at @paulmasonnews. 

43. TAREK KAHLAOUI

My 43rd guest is Tarek Kahlaoui, an academic and activist who has been involved in student protestsin Tunisia in the 1990s and the Arab Spring protests in the early 2000s. Tarek is an assisten professor of history at Southern Mediterranean University in Tunis. Pre-COVID, he wrote me an email that he was writing a book on populism in Tunisia, which he described as “the only Arab surviving democracy after the wave of the Arab Spring” - note that this interview took place before president Saied's "constitutional coup". He tweets at @t_kahlaoui.

44. NAZITA LAJEVARDI

My 44th guest is Nazita Lajevardi, an attorney and political scientist, who is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. Her work focuses primarily on issues related to public opinion and political behavior through the lens of religious and racial identity. She is also a regular public commentator on these issues, including in various US media. In 2020 she published the book “Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia” with Cambridge University Press. Nazita tweets at @nazitalajevardi.

45. EVA ÖNNUDÓTTIR

My 45th guest is Eva Önnudóttir, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, the country’s capitol. Her main work is in the fields of electoral studies and public opinion in Iceland and beyond and she has published several pieces about the so-called “pots and pans protests” in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008-9, which hit Iceland early and hard, but was also quite short.

We talk about the effect of the Great Recession, Jon Gnarr and the Best Party, and the absence of radic al politics in Iceland.

46. MARLENE LARUELLE

My 46th guest is Marlene Laruelle, a Research Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales in her native France. She is a prolific writer on Russian and Central Asian history and politics. This year alone she has two new books out: “Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West”, with Cornell University Press, and “Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia”, with UCL Press. We talk about all things Russia: nationalism, Eurasianism, illiberalism, disinformation, and, of course, Vladimir Putin.

SES 2. ANDERS JUPSKÅS

My guest today is my colleague and friend, Anders Ravik Jupskås, a senior researcher and the deputy director of the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo – where I also hold an affiliation. As probably the foremost scholar of Norwegian party politics, he is the perfect guest for this second Special Election Edition of RADIKAAL, which focuses on the Norwegian election of September, 13, 2021. Anders Jupskås is on Twitter, although reluctantly, where you can follow him at @arjupskas.

47. AIRO HINO

My guest is my friend Airo Hino. Airo is a Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University in Japan. His main work in on electoral behavior and party politics in Western Europe, on which he has published many articles and books, including New Challenger Parties in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis, by Routledge in 2012. However, more recently, he has also been working on populism in Japan, which will be topic of our conversation today.

SES 3. KAI ARZHEIMER

The topic of the third installment of the Spoecial Elections Series is the German federal election of September 26. My guest is Kai Arzheimer, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Mainz in Germany. Kai is one of the foremost scholars of elections and the far right in Europe, and Germany in particular. Het also curates the "The Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe". Kai is actively all over social media, from Twitter to YouTube.

48. AMY ERICA SMITH

My guest today is Amy Erica Smith, an Associate Professor of Political Science and a Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Professor at Iowa State University in the US. Her key topical foci are public opinion and religion and politics and her primary regional expertise is Latin America, in particular Brazil. In 2019 she published Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God with Cambridge University Press, which is also the key focus of this conversation. You can follow her on Twitter at @AmyEricaSmith.

49. MATT DUSS

My 49th guest is Matt Duss, the foreign policy advisor of Senator Bernie Sanders and one of the most prominent protagonists of a progressive US foreign policy. Before joining the Sanders team, he was president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress. We talk about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the US foreign policy establishment, and the challenge of creating a progressive US foreign policy. He tweets at @mattduss.

50. TONI HAASTRUP

My 50th guest is Toni Haastrup, a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Her research broadly explores the nature of global power hierarchies in knowledge and practice between the Global North and South. She has researched topics such as the African Union, EU relations with Africa, feminist foreign policy, and the women, peace and security agenda. I discuss most of these issues with her in this episode. You can follow Toni on Twitter at @ToniHaastrup.

51. SIMON KUPER

My 51st guest is Simon Kuper, a columnist with the Financial Times and an award-winning author on football/soccer. Among his many excellent books are Football against the Enemy and Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe during the Second World War. His new book is Barca: The Inside Story of the World’s Greatest Football Club, published by Short Books in Europe and as The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making – and Unmaking – of the World’s Greatest Soccer Club by Penguin in the US. You can follow him on Twitter at @KuperSimon.

52. KATHERINE CRAMER

My 52nd guest is Katherine Cramer, Professor of Political Science and the Natalie H. Holton Chair of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Her work focuses on the way people in the United States make sense of politics and their place in it. In 2016 she published the award-winning book The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker with the University of Chicago Press.  You can follow her on Twitter at @KathyJCramer.

53. BRENDA ELSEY

My 53rd guest is Brenda Elsey, a professor of History at Hofstra University, who studies the history of popular culture and politics in twentieth century Latin America, with a particular focus on gender and sports. In 2019, she published, with Joshua Nadel, Fubolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America, with the University of Texas Press in 2019. Brenda is also co-host of Burn It All Down, a self-described “feminist sports podcast”.. You can follow her on Twitter at @Politicultura.

SES 4. CRISTÓBAL ROVIRA KALTWASSER

My fourth Special Election Series guest is mi hermano Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Social Science Research Institute at Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. He has published extensively on populist and right-wing politics in Europe and particularly Latin America, including, co-edited, with Pablo Luna, The Resilience of the Latin American Right, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2014; co-authored with Cas Mudde, Populism: A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2017; and most recently, co-edited with Tim Bale, Riding the Populist Wave: Europe’s Mainstream Right in Crisis, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. We talk about the Chilean presidential election of November and December 2021.

54. RUSS RANKIN

My 54th guest is Russ Rankin, a musician, hockey scout and writer from Santa Cruz, California. He is best known as the singer of the punkrock band Good Riddance, but has lend his voice to many other punk bands. He is also the California scout for the Tri City Americans as well as an outspoken voice on issues like animal rights. You can follow him on Twitter at @RussRankinNJD.

55. KATHLEEN BELEW

My 55th guest is Kathleen Belew, an assistant professor in history at the University of Chicago – soon an associate professor at Northwestern University. She published her first book, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, with Harvard University Press in 2019, which has made her a much sought-after media guest and public speaker on the contemporary far right in the US. Last year, with Ramón Guitiérrez, she published A Field Guide to White Supremacy with the University of California Press. You can follow her on Twitter at @kathleen_belew. 

57. ANDREW LAWN

My guest today is Andrew Lawn, a UX writer at Pickatale. In his spare time, Andy is Assistant Manager of Norwich United FC U18s and a co-founder of the Norwich City fanzine, Along Come Norwich. Finally, he is the author of ‘We Lose Every Week; The History of Football Chanting’, which was published by Ockley Books in 2021. You can follow Andrew Lawn on Twitter at @Andrew_Lawn.

58. MIC CRENSHAW

My 58th guest is Mic Crenshaw. Mic is a hip hop activist, organizer and MC, who is based in Portland, Oregon. He used to be the front man of Hungry Mob and has since published various CDs, including “Thinking Out Loud” and “Under the Sun”. Before that, Mic was part of an anti-racist skinhead gang in Minneapolis, which was the topic of a recent PBS program, called “The Baldies”. You can find out all you want to know about Mic Crenshaw, his music, and his many projects, on his website www.miccrenshaw.com. You can also follow him on Twitter at @miccrenshaw.

59. KIRSTEN DYCK

My guest today is Kirsten Dyck. Kirsten got her PhD in American Studies from Washington State University in 2012. She taught at James Madison University from 2012 to 2017 after which she joined the Peace Corps and taught English in Poltava, Ukraine. She currently teaches Conversational English and Cross-Cultural Communication at Nanjing Xiaozhuang University in China. In 2016 she published the book Reichsrock: The International Web of White Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music with Rutgers University Press.

60. LORENZA ANTONUCCI

My guest today is Lorenza Antonucci. Lorenza is an Associate Professor and Birmingham Fellow in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Her research and teaching focuses on the impact of European social policies on people’s lives, and she is currently leading two major research projects, GIGWELL, about the gig economy, and PRECEDE, about the economic and cultural roots of populism in Europe. You can follow Lorenza Antonucci on Twitter at @SocialLore.

SES5. ZSOLT ENYEDI

For this fifth episode in the Sepcial Election Series, I talk to my former colleague Zsolt Enyedi. Zsolt is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Researcher at the Democracy Institute of Central European University, which was initially based in Hungary but now primarily operates from Austria. His research focuses both on the role of religion in politics and on party politics. His most recent book, Party System Closure, co-authored with Fernando Casal Bertoa, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. But Zsolt is also an expert on Hungarian politics and was, as Pro-Rector for Hungarian Affairs, very closely involved in the inevitably unsuccessful negotiations between CEU and the Orbán regime. He is therefore the perfect guest for the fifth episode in the Special Elections Series, which focuses on the Hungarian election of May 3, 2022. You can follow Zsolt Enyedi on Twitter at @enyedi_zsolt. 

61. CHRIS OGUNMODEDE

My 61st guest is Christopher Ogunmodede, a foreign policy advisor and associate editor of World Politics Review, who is based in Lagos, Nigeria. He specializes in diplomacy, development and international security, with a particular focus on West Africa and its history, political institutions and foreign relations. Chris is also a connoisseur of Afrobeat, which is today’s topic of conversation. If you want to keep up to date on Chris Ogunmodede, and his strong opinions on African politics and international soccer, follow him on Twitter at @Illustrious_Cee.

62. CHARLOTTE LYSA

My 62nd guest is Charlotte Lysa. Charlotte is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law and the University of Oslo in Norway. Her academic interests include politics and society in the Middle East and North Africa, and in the Arab Gulf monarchies in particular. She is currently working with the project REF-ARAB: Refugees and the Arab Middle East: Protection in States Not Party to the Refugee Convention, where she works on a sub-project on Saudi Arabia, but for her PhD-project she explored how women in Qatar and Saudi Arabia challenged patriarchal structures through playing football, and the social and political significance of the sport. Roughly half a year before the start of the 2022 World Cup, we will talk about gender, politics, and soccer in Qatar. You can follow Charlotte Lysa on Twitter at @CharlotteLysa.

SES6. RAINBOW MURRAY

My guest for this 6th episode in the Special Election Series, focusing on the 2022 French presidential elections, is Rainbow Murray, a Professor of Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London in the UK. She is an expert on representation, political institutions, gender and diversity, with particular expertise in French and British politics. Rainbow is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Among her many publications are Parties, Gender Quotas and Candidate Selection in France, published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2010. You can follow Rainbow Murray on Twitter at @rainbowmurray.

63. PHILLIP AYOUB

My guest is Phillip Ayoub, an Associate Professor in the Department of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College. This Summer he will take up a Professorship in the Department of Political Science at University College London. His research bridges insights from international relations and comparative politics, engaging with literature on transnational politics, gender and politics, norm diffusion, and the study of social movements. He is the author of When States Come Out: Europe’s Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility, published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. You can follow Phillip Ayoub on Twitter at @phillip_ayoub.

64. LENKA BUSTIKOVA

My next guest is Lenka Bustikova, soon to be Associate Professor in European Union and Comparative East European Politics at St. Anthony’s College of the Oxford University. She is the author of the awards-winning book Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe, published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. Lenka is currently working on a new book project about the social origins of illiberalism, exploring the relationship between ‘uncivil society’ and political radicalization in Eastern Europe. You can follow Lenka Bustikova on Twitter at @LBustikova.

65.MELANIE SCHILLER

My guest today is Melanie Schiller, an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Popular Music at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research combines critical theory, cultural studies, and media studies and focuses particularly on the relationship between popular music and nationalism and populism. In 2018 she published Soundtracking Germany: Popular Music and National Identity with Rowman & Littlefield. Currently, Melanie is part of a collaborative international research project on “Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe, 2018-2022”. You can follow Melanie Schiller on Twitter at @Mel_Schiller.

66. AURELIEN MONDON

My guest today is Aurelien Mondon, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies at Bath University in the United Kingdom. He has been studying the far right in Europe and beyond for over a decade now. Aurelien is a frequent commentator on the far right in the media and blogs on the topic on Medium. His most recent book, published together with his longtime collaborator Aaron Winter, is called Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream, which was published by Verso in 2020. You can follow Aurelien Mondon on Twitter at @aurelmondon. 

67. ELLEN VAN DAMME

My guest today is Ellen van Damme. Ellen has a BA, MA, and PhD in Criminology from the KU Leuven in Belgium, as well as an MA in Conflict and Development from Ghent University in Belgium and has just finished a Fulbright Post-Doc at the Center for the Study of International Migration at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her PhD research concerned the role of women in and around gangs in Honduras, Central America, for which she did extensive field work between 2017 and 2020. Today we will talk about gangs in Central America, the role of gender, and the relationship to immigration. You can follow Ellen van Damme on Twitter at @EllenEvd.

68. PHILIP GORSKI

My next guest is Philip Gorski. Phil is a Professor of Sociology at Yale University, where he is currently also Chair of the Department of Sociology, and Co-Director of Yale’s Center for Comparative Research. Much of his work has been on the sociology of religion, including in the US, which includes his excellent new book, co-authored with Samuel Perry of the University of Oklahoma, entitled The Flag and The Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, published by Oxford University Press earlier this year. You can follow Phil Gorski on Twitter at @GorskiPhilip.

69. DANA EL KURD

My guest is Dana El Kurd, an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Richmond in Virginia, who works on authoritarian regimes in the Arab world, state-society relations in these countries, and the impact of international intervention. In 2020, she published the book Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine with Oxford University Press. Today, we will speak about authoritarianism in the Arab world as well as Palestinian opposition to both Israeli occupation and Palestinian authoritarianism. You can follow Dana El Kurd on Twitter at @DanaElKurd.

70. CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT

My latest guest is Christophe Jaffrelot, a CERI-CNRS Senior Research Fellow who teaches in three different schools at Sciences Po in Paris. He is a world-leading scholar of Indian politics, from its foreign policy to its political sociology. Last year, he published the incredibly detailed but still very readable book Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy with Princeton University Press. Today, we will speak about this terrifying study of contemporary India. You can follow Christophe Jaffrelot on Twitter at @jaffrelotc.

71. LUISA TURBINO TORRES

My 71st guest is Luisa Turbino Torres. an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality at Florida Atlantic University. Earlier this year she defended her PhD thesis, entitled “The Politics of Being a Soccer Fan: An Ethnographic Perspective on Feminist Action Around Soccer in Brazil”, at the University of Delaware. Today, we will talk about gender and soccer fandom in Brazil. Her PhD thesis will become available on ProQuest in the not too distant future, so keep an eye out for it. You can follow Luisa Turbino Torres on Twitter at @turbinotorres.

SES 7. NICHOLAS AYLOTT

My guest for this seventh episode in the Special Election Series is Nicholas Aylott. Nick is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Södertörn University in Sweden. His main academic interests are in comparative European politics, in particular political parties. Today, we will discuss the context, results, and consequences of the Swedish parliamentary elections that were held on September 11. You can find more information about Nichols Aylott on, or perhaps better through, his rather minimalistic webpage at www.nicholasaylott.net and you can follow him on Twitter at @nicholasaylott.

72. ELIZAVETA (LISA) GAUFMAN

My 72nd guest is Elizaveta Gaufman. Lisa is Assistant Professor of Russian Discourse and Politics in the Department of European Languages and Politics of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the exploration of verbal and visual enemy images through big data analysis. Lisa has worked a lot on nationalism and security in the post-Soviet space, including in Russia and Ukraine, and is currently involved in collaborative research on music and politics in Russia, which will be the main topic of this conversation. You can follow Lisa Gaufman on Twitter at @Lisas_Research. 

SES 8. GIULIA SANDRI

My guest today, for this eight episode in the Special Election Series, is Giulia Sandri. Giulia is an Associate Professor of Political Science at ESPOL at the Catholic University of Lille in France. Her main research interests are digital politics, comparative politics, quality of democracy and political behavior. She has also written extensively on Italian electoral and party politics. Notably, she co-edited the special issue “Politics in Italy 2022: The Year of Mario Draghi” for the journal Contemporary Italian Politics. Today, we will discuss the context, results, and consequences of the Italian parliamentary elections that were held on September 25. You can follow Giulia Sandri on Twitter at @SandriGiulia.

73. TESSEL MIDDAG
My 73rd guest is Tessel Middag. Tessel is a professional soccer player for Rangers FC in Glasgow, Scotland, as well as an international for the Dutch women national team. She studied history at the University of Amsterdam, where she also researched the history of women soccer in the Netherlands. In 2017 she was the first Dutch player to join the NGO Common Goal. Today we will talk about politics and women soccer. You can follow Tessel Middag on both Instagram and Twitter at @tesselmiddag.

74. KIM LANE SCHEPPELE

My 74th guest is Kim Lane Scheppele. Kim is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her work focuses on the intersection of constitutional and international law, particularly in constitutional systems under stress. After 1989, she studied the emergence of constitutional law in Hungary and Russia, living in both places for extended periods. Over the last decade, she has become one of the most prominent and insightful critics of Viktor Orbán’s rule in Hungary. Today, we will talk about democratic erosion, EU laxness, and the Frankenstate. You can follow Kim Lane Scheppele on Twitter at @KimLaneLaw.

SES 9. MALU GATTO

My guest today, for this ninth episode in the Special Election Series, and the first covering a non-European election, is Malu Gatto. Malu is an Associate Professor of Latin American Politics at the Institute of the Americas at University College London. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her work explores questions about political behavior, representation, policy-making, and gender and politics with a regional focus on Latin America, especially Brazil. Today, we will discuss the context, results, and consequences of the Brazilian presidential elections, which were held on October 2nd and 30th this year. You can follow her on Twitter at @MaluGatto.

75. RICHARD STEIGMANN-GALL

My 75th guest is Richard Steigmann-Gall, an Associate Professor of History at Kent State University and a specialist of historical fascism, in particular its relationship to Christianity. In 2003, he published The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945 with Cambridge University Press. In the past years he has also explored fascism and religion in the contemporary period, including in the US. You can follow Richard Steigmann-Gall on Twitter at @Notorious_RSG.