Katy Brown

Affiliated Scholar
Manchester Metropolitan University
Email: [email protected]
Biography
Katy Brown (she/her) is a Research Fellow in Language and Social Justice at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on the mainstreaming of the far right, exploring how far-right politics becomes normalised in society. Rather than focusing on the actions of the far right in driving its own success, she is especially interested in the key role played by mainstream actors from politics and media in this process. Only by accounting for these important contributors can we look to counter the growing prevalence of exclusionary politics in society.
Selected publications
- Article · 2026 Perceptions of the ‘mainstream’ and the mainstreaming of the far right: from Ed Sheeran to Keir Starmer Journal of Political Ideologies Presented at AGPT 2025
- Article · 2025 ‘Post-fascism’, or how the far right talks about itself: the 2022 Italian election campaign as a case study Critical Discourse Studies
- Article · 2025 The pretence of the cordon sanitaire: non-collaboration as a distraction from discursive congruence Journal of Contemporary European Studies
- Article · 2023 The far right, the mainstream and mainstreaming: towards a heuristic framework Journal of Political Ideologies
- Article · 2021 Populism, the media, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The Guardian ’s coverage of populism as a case study Politics How The Guardian's coverage of 'populism' helped blur it with, and mainstream, the far right.
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