Aaron Winter

• Right-wing extremism (with a particular focus on American, Canada and Britain)
• Organised racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
• Hate speech and hate crime
• Terrorism and political violence
• Vigilantism

• BA Honours in Political Science, York University (Canada)
• MA in Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Warwick
• DPhil in Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex

Currently working on a monograph Civil Rights, 9/11 and a Black Man in the White House: White Separatism and the Politics of the American Extreme Right (Farnham: Ashgate, forthcoming 2014), an edited collection on the politics, ethics and methods of researching extremism and a collaborative project on the Canadian extreme right. 

Books

B. Brecher, M. Devenney and A. Winter (eds.), Discourses and Practices of Terrorism: Interrogating Terror (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010).

M. O’Neill, K. Swinton and A. Winter (eds), New Challenges for the EU Internal Security Strategy (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming 2013).

A. Winter, Civil Rights, 9/11 and a Black Man in the White House: White Separatism and the Politics of the American Extreme Right (Farnham: Ashgate, forthcoming 2014).

Chapters

A. Winter, ‘American Terror: From Oklahoma City to 9/11 and After’, B. Brecher, M. Devenney and A. Winter (eds.), Discourses and Practices of Terrorism: Interrogating Terror (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010), pp. 156-177.

A. Winter, ‘Race, Empire and the British-American “Special Relationship” in the Obama Era’,  Obama, US Politics and Transatlantic Relation: Change or Continuity?, ed. G. Scott-Smith (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 229-246.

A. Winter, ‘My Enemies Must Be Friends: The American Extreme Right, Conspiracy Theory and the Middle East’, Conspiracy Theories in the Middle East and the United States: A Comparative Approach, eds, M. Reinkowski and M. Butter (Berlin: de Gruyter, forthcoming 2013).

A. Winter, ‘Anti-Abortion Extremism and Violence in the US’, Extremism in the United States, ed. G. Michael (Gainesville: University Press Florida, forthcoming 2013).

M. O’Neill and A. Winter, ‘New Challenges for the EU Internal Security Strategy’, New Challenges for the EU Internal Security Strategy, eds. M. O’Neill, K. Swinton and A. Winter  (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming 2013).

Journal Articles

A. Winter, ‘The New Right: Definition, Identification, Differentiation’, Sociological Research Online, Vol. 5, #1 (May 2000).

Reference

Entries on ‘Boyz N the Hood’ and ‘8 Mile’, The Encyclopedia of Hip-Hop Literature, ed. T. Stanley (Greenwood: Greenwood Press, 2009).

Entries on ‘Anti-Abortion Violence in the United States’, ‘The Order’, ‘Posse Comitatus’, ‘Richard Butler’, ‘Louis Beam, Jr.’ and ‘Robert Mathews’, Religion and Violence: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict, ed. J. I. Ross (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2010).

Entries on ‘Amadou Diallo’ and ‘Central Park Jogger Case’, Encyclopedia of American Street Crime, ed. J. I. Ross (New York: Sage, forthcoming 2013).

Reviews

Review of Mark Fenster, Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture, e-Extreme, Vol. 2, #1 (Spring 2001).

Report on ‘Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory’, Studies in Social and Political Thought, Issue 5 (Oct. 2001), pp. 83-87.

Review of Peter Knight (ed.), Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Post-War America, e-Extreme, Vol. 3, #3 (Autumn 2002).

Review of Paul Hainsworth (ed.), The Politics of the Extreme Right: From the Margins and the Mainstream, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 28, #4 (Oct. 2002), pp. 751-753.

Review of Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, e-Extreme, Vol. 5, #3 (Autumn 2004).

From Desegregation to the war on terror, Book Review of Martin Durham, White Rage: The extreme  right and American politics, Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 44, #3 (July 2010), pp. 313-314.

White Supremacy in the Digital Age, Book Review of Jessie Daniels, Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights, Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 45, #3 (July 2011), pp. 271-273.

Blogs

A. Winter, ‘Britain-US Special: Two Years into Obama's Era, The Right Takes Over The "Special Relationship"’, Enduring American Worldview, 23 Jan. 2011.

A. Winter, ‘The Changing Face of the American Extreme Right’, Extremis Project, 15 Nov. 2012.

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Media

Interviewed by the Dundee Courier for ‘Warning Signs’, by S. Morkis, about extremism and anti-Semitism, 21 Mar 2012.

Interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland ‘Sunday Morning with Cathy Macdonald’ about the Anders Breivik case, terrorism and how different societies respond to acts of political violence, 2 Aug 2012