Imogen Richards

Imogen Richards is a senior lecturer in criminology at Deakin University, Australia. Her research examines comparative forms of political violence, with a particular focus on the mediation of violence and its dynamics. Her solo and co-authored books include Neoliberalism and Neo-Jihadism (Manchester University Press, 2020), Criminologists in the Media (Routledge, 2022), Global Heating and the Australian Far Right (Routledge, 2023), and The Aesthetic Politics of Far-Right Environmentalism (Palgrave, 2025).

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How media coverage helps normalise the far right

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.