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0000-0003-0546-4771
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Deakin University
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Sociology | Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment | Race and Ethnic Relations
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Publisher: Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies
Date: 02-11-2022
DOI: 10.56311/POZS1016
Abstract: This report presents bias indicators for the Australian context and discusses their concept, uses, benefits and risks. The bias indicators we present are the result of extensive consultations with local experts including academics and practitioners working in law enforcement agencies, government and non-government organisations and community organisations. Trigger warning: this report discusses multiple forms of trauma, hate, and discrimination, including physical violence, racism, and homophobia.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2022
DOI: 10.1177/20563051221138758
Abstract: Research has explored how the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a wave of conspiratorial thinking and online hate speech, but little is empirically known about how different phases of the pandemic are associated with hate speech against adversaries identified by online conspiracy communities. This study addresses this gap by combining observational methods with exploratory automated text analysis of content from an Italian-themed conspiracy channel on Telegram during the first year of the pandemic. We found that, before the first lockdown in early 2020, the primary target of hate was China, which was blamed for a new bioweapon. Yet over the course of 2020 and particularly after the beginning of the second lockdown, the primary targets became journalists and healthcare workers, who were blamed for exaggerating the threat of COVID-19. This study advances our understanding of the association between hate speech and a complex and protracted event like the COVID-19 pandemic, and it suggests that country-specific responses to the virus (e.g., lockdowns and re-openings) are associated with online hate speech against different adversaries depending on the social and political context.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-02-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-04-2014
Publisher: Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies
Date: 06-2022
DOI: 10.56311/OHZB5243
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-02-2015
Publisher: Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies
Date: 07-2020
DOI: 10.56311/YHMP5323
Abstract: This report is a first in Australia to make sense of the exceptional fragmentation and lack of coordination of responses to hate crimes, hate speech and hate incidents across the country Dr Matteo Vergani & Rouven Link
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-09-2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-12-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2014
Abstract: While there are relevant studies on both local political subcultures and party activism in Italy, the literature misses the relations between these two social and political phenomena. This article aims at bridging the lacuna by presenting a typology of the local branches of the Italian PD (Democratic Party) based on the relationship between the features of party activism and the local political subcultures. Four types of local PD branch emerge: the ‘showcase’ branch, the ‘administrative’ branch, the ‘company’ branch and the ‘committee’ branch. The article discusses each type, while drawing on 40 in-depth interviews collected during field research. Insights into the relationship between local political subcultures and party activism in Italy are offered.
Publisher: Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.56311/DSHA5548
Abstract: "Our research looked at Asian Australians’ experiences of racism before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined how these experiences are associated with their mental health, wellbeing and feelings of belonging. We analysed how targets and witnesses respond to racist incidents, and whether they report these incidents.
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 11-12-2017
Abstract: We investigate differences in the psychological aspects underpinning Western mobilisation of two terrorist groups by analysing their English-language propaganda. Based on a computerized analysis of the language used in two English-language online magazines circulated by ISIS and al-Qaeda (i.e., Dabiq and Inspire), we found significant differences in their language - the ISIS’ language being higher in authoritarianism and its level of religiousness. In a follow-up experimental study, we found that being high in religiousness and authoritarianism predicts more positive attitudes towards the language used by ISIS, but not towards the language used by al-Qaeda. The results suggest that ISIS’ propaganda may be more effective in mobilising in iduals who are more authoritarian and more focused on religion than that of al-Qaeda. These findings are consistent with the behaviour observed in recent homegrown terrorist attacks in the USA and Europe.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-06-2022
DOI: 10.1002/CASP.2633
Abstract: This study suggests that terrorism concerns can hinder the effect of prejudice reduction interventions based on education and outgroup knowledge. There is accordance in the literature that in iduals who possess more knowledge about Muslim people and Islam are less likely to have anti‐Muslim prejudice. We conducted secondary analyses of data from a representative s le of Australians ( N = 1,267), and we found that terrorism concerns moderate the relationship between anti‐Muslim prejudice and knowledge of Islam, wherein in iduals with higher levels of terrorism concern have high anti‐Muslim attitudes regardless of their levels of knowledge. In an experimental study manipulating terrorism concerns, a national s le of 502 Australians was randomly allocated to watch a news video about ISIS or a video portraying Muslims positively. In iduals who watched the ISIS video had significantly higher anti‐Muslim attitudes and were significantly more likely to retain negatively framed information about Muslims than those who watched the positive video. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement .
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-03-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2023
Publisher: Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies
Date: 28-02-2021
DOI: 10.56311/YSZP5128
Abstract: In May 2021, CRIS and AVERT members Professor Michele Grossman, Mark Duckworth, Lydia Khalil, Dr Joshua Roose and Dr Mario Peucker appeared as expert witnesses at the public hearings held in Canberra for the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security’s Inquiry into Extremist Movements and Radicalism in Australia. Professor Michele Grossman, Mark Duckworth, Professor Greg Barton, Dr Vivian Gerrand, Dr Matteo Vergani, Dr Mario Peucker, Professor Hass Dellal and Jacob Davey
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-11-2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 08-11-2023
DOI: 10.1017/S147474642100052X
Abstract: Responses to hate crimes, hate incidents and hate speech are characterised by an exceptional fragmentation in terminology and lack of coordination among governmental and non-governmental organisations. This article proposes a new conceptual framework to map the ersity of responses to hate crime, hate incidents and hate speech, with the aim of assessing gaps and needs in this important policy area. Using Australia as a case study, we create and analyse a database of 222 organisations running activities focusing on tackling hate against different target groups. The results highlight an uneven distribution of efforts across different geographical areas, types of activities and target groups. The majority of anti-hate efforts, especially by government organisations, focus on awareness raising and education rather than victim support and data collection. Racial and religious hate are the main foci of anti-hate efforts, compared to other forms of hate, such as anti-LGBTIQ+ and disablist hate.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2018
Publisher: Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies
Date: 17-06-2020
DOI: 10.56311/ZJVP2684
Abstract: This report provides important evidence for all stakeholders involved in tackling hate in Victoria, including policy makers, law enforcement agencies and community organisations, to better understand how to address community reporting barriers.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-06-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-02-2022
Publisher: Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.56311/CEMO4002
Abstract: This brief provides contemporary empirical insights into the extent of Islamophobia in Victoria, and how it is manifest, in order the help develop policy responses.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-04-2022
DOI: 10.1002/CL2.1228
Abstract: The overall aim of the review is to map the definitions and measurement tools used to capture the whole spectrum of hate motivated behaviors, including hate crime, hate speech and hate incidents. This will benefit the field of hate studies by providing a baseline that can inform the building of cumulative knowledge and comparative research. The first review objective is to map definitions of hate crime, hate incidents, hate speech, and surrogate terms. Specific research questions underpinning this objective are: (a) How are hate crimes, hate speech and hate incidents defined in the academic, legal, policy, and programming literature? (b) What are the concepts, parameters and criteria that qualify a behavior as being hate crime, hate incident or hate speech? and (c) What are the most common concepts, parameters and criteria found across definitions? What are the differences between definitions and the elements they contain? The second review objective is to map the tools used to measure the prevalence of hate crime, hate incidents, hate speech, and surrogate terms. Specific research questions underpinning this objective are: (a) How are definitions operationalised to measure hate crimes, hate speech, and hate incidents? and (b) How valid and reliable are these measures?
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 11-2021
DOI: 10.1071/WF21100
Abstract: Internationally, fire and land management agencies are increasingly using forms of predictive services to inform wildfire planning and operational response. This trend is particularly pronounced in Australia where, over the past two decades, there has been an alignment between increases in investments in fire behaviour analysis tools, the training and development of fire behaviour analysts (FBANs), and official inquiries recommending the expanded use of these tools and analysts. However, while there is a relative lack of scholarship on the utilisation of predictive services, existing research suggests that institutional investment and availability are poor indicators of use in contexts with established social dynamics of trust and authority. To better understand the utilisation of predictive services in Australia, we undertook a survey of key predictive services users (e.g. incident controllers, planning officers) in order to test several hypotheses developed from existing studies and ethnographic fieldwork. Our results provide directions for further research and indicate that, rather than simply invest in tools and systems, there is a need for fire management agencies to foster personal connection between predictive services practitioners, their tools and their users.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-03-2021
DOI: 10.1177/01979183211000282
Abstract: This IMR Research Note examines the impact of the level of bonding social capital on access to employment among newly arrived Afghan refugees in Victoria (Australia). Based on a mixed-methods analysis of biographical interviews with 80 Afghan refugees, it examines their use of social capital, year by year, during the first three years after their arrival. Our analysis shows that higher levels of bonding social capital are associated with greater success in finding employment during the first and second year of settlement. In the third year, however, bonding social capital for Afghan refugees in Victoria is no longer a significant predictor of employment. This Research Note helps clarify inconsistent findings in the literature on the effects of social capital on obtaining employment by suggesting that bonding social capital’s impact on refugee employment success changes significantly across the first three years after arrival. This finding has important implications for migration policy and the prioritization of resources toward services for newly arrived refugees.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-04-2016
Abstract: Using terror management theory, we examined whether mortality salience (MS death-related cognitions) increased support for religious and political extremism and/or violent extremism in young Indonesian Muslims. Muslim and non-Muslim Indonesian students studying in Australia were randomized to an MS or control condition. Following completion of a distracter task, participants were asked to rate their agreement/disagreement with another Indonesian Muslim student’s (bogus) statements toward extremist views and violent extremist actions. After controlling for alienation, Muslim students in the MS condition reported significantly higher levels of support for extremist views than did non-Muslims. There was no significant effect of MS on violent extremist action in either Muslims or non-Muslims. The results suggest that reminders of death (MS) may lead young Muslims to be more supportive of politically and religiously extreme views, but not violent action. Our findings lend partial support to previous research in Iranian Muslim students however, further research is needed to establish factors that can result in increased support for violent extremism.
Start Date: 06-2020
End Date: 12-2023
Amount: $381,761.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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