Dr Josh Roose
Associate Professor
Institution
Deakin University
Research Area Keywords
Masculinities; Political Violence; Religious Violence; Extremism; Populism; Far-Right; Salafi Jihadism; Male Supremacism; Incels; Mens Rights Activism; Protest; Policy.
Contact: Josh.Roose@deakin.edu.au
About Josh
Dr Josh Roose is an Associate Professor focussing on politics, law, religion and violent extremism at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. His research focuses on the role of masculinities, economies, social trajectories and ideologies in shaping the attraction to and patterns of participation in violent extremism. He places particular emphasis on exploring societal level responses and solutions including the strengthening of citizenship, anti-discrimination legislation and key institutions.
Josh has, with colleagues, received Australian Research Council Discovery project funding to explore the Australian far right (2021-2024) and anti-women online actors (2022-2025). He has previously completed projects for the Victorian Government Department of Justice and Community Safety on masculinities and recruitment to violent extremism and Victoria Police on alternative narratives and provides expert insights for local, state and federal governments and national and international media. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Perspectives on Terrorism and member of the AVERT Steering Committee.
Key Publications
Journal articles
Anti-Government Extremism in Australia: Understanding the Australian Anti-Lockdown Freedom Movement as a Complex Anti-Government Social Movement (2023)
Khalil L and Roose JM
Books
Masculinity and Violent Extremism (2022, forthcoming)
Roose JM, Flood M, Alfano M, Greig A, Copland S
The New Demagogues: Religion, Masculinity and the Populist Epoch (2020)
Roose JM
Political Islam and Masculinity: Australian Muslim Men (2016)
Roose JM
Book Chapters
Automated psycholinguistic analysis of the Anglophone Manosphere (2022)
in Advances in Experimental Political Philosophy, Lindauer M (ed.)
Roose JM
Masculinity and Muslims: Contemporary Debates (2020)
in Handbook of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Lives, Lukens-Bull R and Woodward M (eds.)
Roose JM
Non-Western New Populism: Religion, Masculinity and Violence in the East (2019)
in Populism and the Crisis of Democracy, Mackert J and Turner BS (eds.)
Roose JM
Citizenship, Masculinities and Political Populism. Preliminary Considerations in the Context of Contemporary Social Challenges (2017)
in Struggles, Resistance and Violence, Volume III of Transformation of Citizenship, Mackert J and Turner BS (eds.)
Roose JM
Islam and Globalization: Islamophobia, Security and Terrorism (2016)
in The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies, Turner B and Holton R
Roose JM and Turner BS
Grants and Projects
'Anti-women Online Movements; Pathways and Patterns of Participation' (Lead)
Roose JM, Flood M and Ging D
Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2022-2024
$441,037
'Far Right in Australia: Intellectuals, Masculinity and Citizenship'
Turner BS, Nilan P, Roose JM, Peucker M
Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP200101998, 2021-24
$327,521
'Crisis Points: Extremism under a State of Emergency: The Intersection of Extremism and Natural Disasters’
Khalil L, Roose JM, Gerrand V, Duckworth M, Whelan C,
Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, 2021-22
$65,668
'Tracking the evolution of the Indonesia – China relationship in the post Covid-19 context' (lead)
Roose JM, Akbarzadeh S, Barton G
Australian Government Department of Defence, 2021-22
$175,098
'Rapid Evidence Assessment on Alternative Narratives' (lead)
Roose JM, Akbarzadeh S and Gerrand V
Victoria Police Counter-Terrorism Command Specialist Intelligence Unit, 2021
$13,938
‘Challenging the use of Masculinity as a Recruitment Mechanism in Violent Extremism’
Roose JM, Alfano M and Flood M
Victorian Government Department of Justice and Community Safety, 2019-20
$88,617