ADI Publications and Presentations

Prof Michele Grossman and colleagues have a chapter in the new collection from Montreal University Press on democracy, radicalisation and violent extremism, based on their research on women and violent extremism in Australia. This volume is titled Le nouvel âge des extrêmes ? Les démocraties occidentales, la radicalisation et l’extrémisme violent (The New Age of Extremes? Western Democracies, Radicalisation and Violent Extremism).

Their chapter: 
Lorsque les femmes soutiennent l’extrémisme violent: le contexte australien (When women support violent extremism: The Australian context)
Michele Grossman, Susan Carland, Andrew Zammit et Hussein Tahiri
pp. 319 – 339

Dr Victoria Stead presented a paper, “Feeling, Knowing, and Claiming a Place: Australians at Kokoda” at a one-day workshop, The Knowing of Papua New Guinea, organised and hosted by Deakin University historians on 4 March.

Prof Ihsan Yilmaz gave a keynote speech at the re-launch of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture (Regents Park College, Oxford University) titled ‘Islamist populism, religion and political mobilisation.’

Prof Ihsan Yilmaz, Erdoan Shipoli (Georgetown) and Mustafa Demir (Staffordshire, UK) has published a paper in Democratization journal: ‘Authoritarian Resilience through Securitisation: An Islamist Populist Party’s Co-optation of A Secularist Far-Right Party,’ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13510347.2021.1891412

Prof Ihsan Yilmaz published two research reports for the think tank, European Center for Populism Studies: The AKP’s Authoritarian, Islamist Populism: Carving out a New Turkey and Erdogan’s Political Journey: From Victimised Muslim Democrat to Authoritarian, Islamist Populist.

A joint report has been released by ADI and the Challenging Racism Project at Sydney University: Understanding Varied Attitudes Toward Muslims – Final Report. The report was from the project Dissecting Islamophobia: Understanding the varied racialisation of Islam using Latent Class Analysis and authored by Kevin Dunn, Rachel Sharples, Thierno Diallo, Alexia Derbas, Matteo Vergani, Craig McGarty, Fethi Mansouri, Yin Paradies and Amanuel Elias.

Dr Alexandra Roginski has been awarded the John Molony Prize by the Australian National University. The award recognises the best PhD in history for a particular graduating year – in this case 2019, when she completed her thesis on the history of popular phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa.

Dr Michele Lobo has two new publications:

  • Lobo M (2021) Straying beyond the well-worn path: Fighting for racial justice and planetary justice. Special Issue celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of Sara Ahmed’s Strange Encounters, Journal of Intercultural Studies. Free eprints here.

Earth Unbound Collective (2021) Earth Unbound, Climate Change, Activism and Justice, Educational Philosophy and Theory. Free eprints here