Dr Imogen Richards
Lecturer
Institution
Deakin University
Research Area Keywords
Social media; News media; Political violence; Political economy; Counterterrorism.
Contact: imogen.richards@deakin.edu.au
About Imogen
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)
Richards I and Jones C
in Far Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy in the Twenty First Century, McAdams J and Castillon A
‘Sustainable Development’, Counterterrorism and the Prevention of Violent Extremism: Right-wing Nationalism and Neo-jihadism in Context (2021)
Richards I
in Emerald Handbook on Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development, Blaustein J, Fitz-Gibbon K, Pino N and White R
Reports
Far-right politics, environmental crisis & the question of ‘eco- fascism’, (2023)
Richards I
in ‘Exploring trends and research in countering and preventing extremism & violent extremism, Denis Suljic and Emma Allen (eds.) Hedayah.