Ashley Mattheis
Special guest
Ashley is a doctoral candidate in Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ashley’s work explores the use of online platforms to promote and mainstream extremist ideologies. Her research brings together Cultural and Media Studies, feminist theory, and rhetoric to approach topics such as masculinities and online misogyny in the Manosphere, the linkages between the Manosphere and the Far/Alt-Right, and Alt-Right women’s discourses about negotiating submission and action in extremist groups.
Ashley Mattheis has been a guest on 4 episodes.
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New Book Spotlight - Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness
January 19th, 2022 | Season 2 | 48 mins 33 secs
extremism, history, populism, right-wing
Guests Shona Hunter, Christi van der Westhuizen, and Ashley Mattheis join Right Rising to discuss their new edited volume Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness, which seeks to understand whiteness as a manifestation of power. Shona, Christi, and Ashley break down what "critical whiteness studies" are and why this is useful in understanding the contemporary activism of the radical right. How - we ask - is whiteness produced in various historical and sociopolitical circumstances?
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The Ethics of Studying the Far Right
October 13th, 2021 | Season 2 | 35 mins 22 secs
extremism, history, populism, right-wing
Guests Ashton Kingdon and Ashley Mattheis join Right Rising to discuss the ethical implications of studying the far right. Ashton and Ashley break down the particular burdens scholars face researching extremism online, including researcher safety and mental wellbeing. How, we ask, do we rethink the responsibilities institutions hold for protecting their reachers?
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The Year in Review
May 25th, 2021 | Season 1 | 57 mins 34 secs
extremism, history, populism, right-wing
Guests Eviane Leidig, Ashley Mattheis, and William Allchorn rejoin Right Rising for a roundtable discussion of the radical right's activities throughout the past year of the podcast. Eviane, Ashley, and William analyze some of the key trends in the far right's development over the past year and speculate on the future development of these movements as the COVID-19 pandemic slows in the U.S. and Europe.
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The QAnon Conspiracy and Momfluencers
October 27th, 2020 | Season 1 | 34 mins 39 secs
extremism, history, populism, right-wing
Guest Ashley Mattheis joins Right Rising to break down the QAnon conspiracy and its growth during the COVID-19 crisis. She also connects the evolution of QAnon to the activities of "Momfluencers" on social media and helps us understand why this conspiracy is spreading so rapidly across the United States.