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Dr Imogen Richards
Dr Imogen Richards, Lecturer
Deakin University
Institution
Deakin University
Research Areas
Social mediaNews mediaPolitical violencePolitical economyCounterterrorism.
Imogen Richards is a lecturer in criminology at Deakin University. Her research focuses on social, news, and alternative forms of online media. Additionally, she writes about the political economy of (counter-)terrorism and the performance of security in response to social crises. She has authored monographs with Manchester University Press and Routledge, exploring the political economy of neo-jihadism, public criminology, and the intersection of global heating and the Australian far right.
Key Publications
Books
| Global Heating and the Australian Far Right (2023) | Richards I, Brinn G and Jones C |
| Criminologists in the Media (2022) | Wood M, Richards I and Iliadis M |
| Neoliberalism and Neo-jihadism: Propaganda and Finance in Al Qaeda and Islamic State (2020) | Richards I |
Journal Articles
| Political Philosophy and Australian Far-right Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis of The Unshackled and XYZ (2021) | Richards I, Rae M, Vergani M and Jones C |
| Newsmaking Criminology in the 21st Century: An Analysis of Criminologists’ News Media Engagement in Seven Countries (2020) | Richards I, Wood M and Iliadis M |
| A Philosophical and Political-Economic Analysis of ‘Generation Identity’: Fascism, Online Media, and the European New Right (2019) | Richards I |
| A Dialectical Approach to Online Propaganda: Australia’s United Patriots Front, Right-Wing Politics and Islamic State (2019) | Richards I |
| ‘Flexible’ Capital Accumulation in Islamic State Social Media (2016) | Richards I |
| ‘Good and Evil’ Narratives in Islamic State Media and Western Government Statements (2017) | Richards I |
Book Chapters
| Classical Liberalism and the International ‘New Right’: Quillette, Academia, and Far-right Activism (2021)in Far Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy in the Twenty First Century, McAdams J and Castillon A | Richards I and Jones C |
| ‘Sustainable Development’, Counterterrorism and the Prevention of Violent Extremism: Right-wing Nationalism and Neo-jihadism in Context (2021)in Emerald Handbook on Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development, Blaustein J, Fitz-Gibbon K, Pino N and White R | Richards I |
Reports
| Far-right politics, environmental crisis & the question of ‘eco- fascism’, (2023) | Richards I |