Kayla Preston's Publications
PEER-REVIEW JOURNAL ARTICLES
Kayla Preston. 2026. “From Screens to Campuses: The Role of YouTube in Shaping Far-Right Activism Among University Students in North America.” The Sociological Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2026.2649263
Kayla Preston. 2026 “Far-Right, moderate right or right-wing floaters? The ties that shape Canadian right-wing youth activism.” Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie. https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.70031
Kayla Preston. 2026. “An Emotional Endeavor: Researcher Positionality and Bad Feelings Studying the Canadian Far Right” Contemporary Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00943061261415738c
Kayla Preston, Michael Halpin and Demeter Lockyear. 2025.“Incels and Gender Inequality: Changing Tides in Defining the Far Right.” Social Problems. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaf052
Halpin, Michael, Kayla Preston, Demeter Lockyer and Finlay Maguire. 2024. “A solider and a victim: Masculinity, violence, and incels celebration of December 6th.” Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12460
Kayla Preston. 2023. “Justifying contentious social and political claims using mundane language: An analysis of Canadian right-wing extremism.” Current Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921231182183
Halpin, Michael, Norann Richard, Kayla Preston, Meghan Gosse and Finlay Maguire. 2023. “Men who hate women: The misogyny of involuntarily celibate men.” New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231176777
Kayla Preston and Gul Çalışkan,. 2022. “We Have to Stop Islam, or Say Goodbye to Civilisation”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Pegida Canada Facebook Page. Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, 9(1), 21-50.
Kayla Preston, Michael Halpin and Finlay Maguire. 2021. The black pill: New technology and the male supremacy of involuntarily celibate men. Men and Masculinities, 24(5), 823-841. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X211017954
Çalışkan, Gul and Kayla Preston. 2017. “Tropes of fear and the crisis of the west: Trumpism as a discourse of post-territorial coloniality.” Postcolonial Studies, 20(2), 199-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2017.1376367
BOOK CHAPTERS
Kayla Preston. 2024. “Community Building as a Response to Care in Studying the Far-Right” In Antonia Vaughan, Joan Braune, Meghan Tinsley and Aurelien Mondon (Eds.), The Ethics of Researching the Far Right (pp. 218-227). Manchester University Press.
Çalışkan, Gul, Kayla Preston, Gary Kinsman, Ghaida Moussa and Amar Wahab. 2020. “Decolonial Intervention to Queer Necropolitics and Homonationalisms” in Çalışkan, G. (Eds.), Gendering Globalization Globalizing Gender: A Postcolonial Approach (pp. 40-60). Oxford University Press.
Çalışkan, Gul and Kayla Preston. 2020.“Introduction” In Çalışkan, G. (Eds.), Gendering Globalization Globalizing Gender: A Postcolonial Approach. (pp. x-xiv). Oxford University Press.
ENCYLOPEDIA ENTRIES AND BOOK REVIEWS
Kayla Preston and Michael Halpin. 2021. “Social isolation in the elderly, global presence, consequences, and possible solutions” In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives on Mental Health. Palgrave
Kayla Preston. 2019. [Review of the book Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World by William Davies]. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 44(4), 463-466