Articles by Iris B. Segers

March 6, 2025

🌈 Lies, damned lies, and the far right

Iris B. Segers

Far-right politicians around the world have mastered the art of epistemic warfare, posing a serious threat to academic freedom. Iris B. Segers reflects on the challenges of feminist resistance to a bizarre political reality rife with lies

Landslide victory for Geert Wilders – but can he form a government?

Iris B. Segers

The 2023 Dutch general election has given Geert Wilders’ far-right Party for Freedom a landslide victory. Iris Beau Segers argues that centre-right parties have contributed to the mainstreaming of Wilders’ far-right views and are now trapped in a dance over the formation of a new government

Iris B. Segers

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Gender Research (STK), and Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo

Iris’s current research focuses on far-right politics of knowledge, anti-trans and anti-gender mobilisation, threats and harassments against academics, and methodological challenges in researching the far right.

Her background is in media studies and sociology.

She acquired her PhD in Media and Communication at the University of Oslo in 2020.

'The Anti-Woke Academy': Dutch Far-Right Politics of Knowledge About Gender
Politics & Gender, 2024

Mobilization against Asylum Seekers in Contemporary Urban Spaces: Not in Our Backyard
Routledge, 2022
Part of the Routledge Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest and Culture

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