Dr Katy Brown

Research Fellow,
Manchester Metropolitan University

I am a Research Fellow in Language and Social Justice at Manchester Metropolitan University. My research focuses on the mainstreaming of far-right politics, looking at the role of mainstream actors in normalising exclusion and inequality.

Latest publications

This is a summary of my latest publications. You can find a full list, plus links to open access versions

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Discourse Theory, Critical Discourse Studies and Corpus Linguistics:

A Practical Guide

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published by Palgrave Macmillan

The pretence of the cordon sanitaire:

non-collaboration as a distraction from discursive congruence

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with Luke Shuttleworth and Aurelien Mondon in Journal of Contemporary European Studies

Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming

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with George Newth and Aurelien Mondon in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Talking ‘about’ the far right as researchers:
between responsibility, safety and neoliberal success

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with Antonia Vaughan in European Journal of Politics and Gender

Perceptions of the ‘mainstream’ and the mainstreaming of the far right: from Ed Sheeran to Keir Starmer

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in Journal of Political Ideologies

Media appearances

I have been interviewed by various TV, radio/podcast and print media outlets about my research on far-right mainstreaming and its relation to current events. Click the logos below for examples, or find the full list

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