Dr Kristy Campion
Lecturer
Institution
Charles Sturt University
Research Area Keywords
Right wing extremism; Terrorism; Australia; Ideology; Identity; Left wing extremism; Salafi Jihadism.
Contact: kcampion@csu.edu.au
About Kristy
Dr Kristy Campion is a Lecturer of Terrorism Studies with the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security. A historian by training, her postgraduate and research expertise has focused on terrorism and extremism, both domestically and internationally. She has lectured and tutored in terrorism studies to undergraduate students and postgraduate students, consulted for specialist audiences and industry, and engages in media and public commentary. While she is primarily lectures in the Masters of Terrorism and Security Studies degree, Dr Campion also supervisors HDR candidates. In the past two years, Dr Campion’s research has focused heavily on right wing extremism in Australia, with reference to its organisations, individuals, and ideological narratives, with a focus on domestic and international connections.
Key Publications
Books
Chasing Shadows: The untold and deadly story of terrorism in Australia (2022)
Campion K
Journal Articles
Framing the Australian extreme right: Proposing a threefold typology with consideration of legislation and listing regulations (2023)
Campion, K., Nolan, M., and O'Brien, N
Defining Ecofascism: Historical foundations and contemporary interpretations in the extreme right (2021)
Campion, K.
Border Security: an Ideological Nexus (2021)
Ferrill, J and Campion, K.
Teaching Terrorism and Practitioners: context, capabilities, and connectivity in Counter-terrorism knowledge and networks (2021)
Campion, K., West, L.
Submission to the Inquiry on Extremism and Radicalism in Australia (2021)
Campion, K. Nolan, M. O’Brien, N.
International Nets and National Links: The Global Rise of the Extreme Right—Introduction to Special Issue (2021)
Campion, K and Poynting, S.
Women in the Radical and Extreme Right: Forms of participation and their implications (2020)
Campion, K.
Unstructured Terrorism? Left Wing Extremism in Australia (2020)
Campion, K.
Trump claims ‘left-wing extremism’ is engulfing the US. Conflating protests with terrorism is the real danger (2020)
Campion K and West, L.
Infiltrating democracy: Non-violent strategies to serving violent ideologies (2020)
Campion, K.
Contemporary Right Wing Extremism in Australia (2020)
Campion, K.
Australian Right Wing Extremist Ideology: Narratives of Nostalgia and Nemesis (2019)
Campion, K.
From Christchurch to El Paso: understanding white, right wing terrorism (2019)
Campion, K.
A “Lunatic Fringe”?: The Persistence of Right Wing Extremism in Australia (2019)
Campion, K.
Right Wing Extremism has a long history in Australia (2019)
Campion, K.
The Ustaše in Australia: a review of right-wing Ustaše terrorism from 1963-1973, and factors which enabled their endurance (2018)
Campion, K.
Blast through the Past: Terrorist attacks on arts and antiquities as a reconquest of the modern jihadi identity (2017)
Campion, K.
Book chapters
Militants, pirates, or extremists? Frameworks for conceptualising left wing extremism in Australia (2023)
Campion, K
In Handbook of Left Wing Extremism
The exclusivist claims of Pacific ecofascists: Visual environmental communication by far right groups in Australia and New Zealand (2023)
Campion, K., and Phillips, J.
In B. Fortchner (ed.), Visualising Far Right Environments: Communication and the politics of nature
Grants and Projects
Extremist Exploitation of COVID-19 (2020-2021)
CSU
Contemporary Threats to Australian Society (CTAS) (2022-2025)
CSU