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Environmental imagery, far-right ideologies, and the conflict-peace-climate nexus in Europe
ABSTRACT This article examines how European radical right political parties and extreme right movements use environment-themed imagery to disseminate alternative narratives about climate change and other environmental issues.
Banning protest slogans won’t end antisemitism. We need to understand the complex forces driving it
By Imogen Richards, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion will deliver its interim report to the governor-general by April 30. Public hearings will follow, defining antisemitism and its effects on Jewish Australians. As a researcher of political violence, I provided a submission to the NSW parliamentary committee Read complete article © The Conversation -
Banning protest slogans won’t end antisemitism. We need to understand the complex forces driving it Original
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion will deliver its interim report to the governor-general by April 30. Public hearings will follow, defining antisemitism and its effects on Jewish Australians. As a researcher of political violence, I provided a submission to the NSW parliamentary committee considering prohibitions on slogans that some argue incite hatred and violence against Jews, such as “globalise the intifada”.
Best of 2025 - How media coverage helps normalise the far right
Media coverage does more than report on the far right. Through language choices, sensationalism and false balance, journalism can help shift racist politics into the mainstream. A repost from 5 December 2025 This year, a series of rallies organised by neo-Nazi groups in Australian cities sparked public outrage and concern about the extreme right. Yet, some media coverage of the rallies downplayed the role neo-Nazis played in what they called “ anti-immigration rallies”.
How media coverage helps normalise the far right
Media coverage does more than report on the far right. Through language choices, sensationalism and false balance, journalism can help shift racist politics into the mainstream. This year, a series of rallies organised by neo-Nazi groups in Australian cities sparked public outrage and concern about the extreme right. Yet, some media coverage of the rallies downplayed the role neo-Nazis played in what they called “ anti-immigration rallies”.
Euphemisms and False Balance: How the Media Is Helping to Normalise Far-right Views
This year, a series of rallies organised by neo-Nazi groups in Australian cities sparked public outrage and concern about the extreme right. Yet, some media coverage of the rallies downplayed the role neo-Nazis played in what they called “anti-immigration rallies”. Other commentators misrepresented statistics on net migration. Politicians, meanwhile, traded barbs about who was to blame for far-right demonstrators on city streets.
Euphemisms and false balance: how the media is helping to normalise far-right views Original
This year, a series of rallies organised by neo-Nazi groups in Australian cities sparked public outrage and concern about the extreme right. Yet, some media coverage of the rallies downplayed the role neo-Nazis played in what they called “anti-immigration rallies”. Other commentators misrepresented statistics on net migration. Politicians, meanwhile, traded barbs about who was to blame for far-right demonstrators on city streets.
Euphemisms and false balance: how the media is helping to normalise far-right views
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Teaching and Learning in Criminology Professional Development Symposium
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Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media
Routledge Studies in Crime, Media and Popular Culture offers the very best in research that seeks to understand crime through the context of culture, cultural processes and media. The series welcomes monographs and edited volumes from across the globe, and across a variety of disciplines.
Criminologists in the Media: A Study of Newsmaking
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Neoliberalism, COVID-19 and conspiracy: pandemic management strategies and the far-right social turn
Abstract Neoliberal pandemic management strategies during the 2019–2022 COVID-19 virus pandemic rendered vulnerable to the disease, people in precarious work, with underlying health issues, and experiencing other forms of social discrimination and disadvantage.
Digital Public Criminology in Australia and New Zealand: Results from a Mixed Methods Study of Criminologists’ Use of Social Media
h https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/plugins/themes/jcjtheme/images/article_image.png International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 2019-06-01 8 2 Downloads Total Abstract Views: 169 Total PDF Downloads: 36 Author Biographies Mark A Wood is a Lecturer in criminology at the University of Melbourne.
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