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A/Prof Josh Roose

@joshroose.bsky.social
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A/Prof Josh Roose @joshroose.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Published 'Militant masculinity, male grievance, and the politics of democratic decline' in Gender Studies last year (open access - see link). The below (ai-gen) image breaks down the key arguments. #masculinity #populism #extremism #terrorism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (Open access).
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A/Prof Josh Roose @joshroose.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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Too dangerous to return? What we know of the ISIS brides
Some call for the families to be rescued from the camps in Syria. Others, haunted by their own suffering at the hands of Islamic State, are afraid of their return.
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A/Prof Josh Roose @joshroose.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
theconversation.com/these-are-th...
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These are the 6 key questions the antisemitism royal commission needs to answer
After weeks of mounting pressure, the government has called a royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion. It must involve tackling uncomfortable issues.
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A/Prof Josh Roose @joshroose.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
My new article in Gender Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Militant masculinity, male grievance, and the politics of democratic decline
This article introduces militant masculinity as a decentralized, affectively charged, and ideologically driven response to perceived male disempowerment. Unlike hegemonic, toxic, or protest masculi...
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 30/08/2025
From Wieambilla to Porepunkah, violent ‘anti-government extremists’ are a growing threat
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From Wieambilla to Porepunkah, violent ‘anti-government extremists’ are a growing threat
Gareth, Stacey and Nathaniel Train were not ‘sovereign citizens’, but they shared a deep hatred of police with the Porepunkah suspect Dezi Freeman * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When the Queensland authorities wanted to understand the motivation of the Wieambilla killers, they turned to Josh Roose. The political sociologist and associate professor of politics at Deakin University was given access to the killers’ writings, to paint a picture of the process of radicalisation that led Gareth, Stacey and Nathaniel Train to shoot three police officers and a neighbour in cold blood in a 2022 ambush at a remote property about 350km west of Brisbane. Continue reading...
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A/Prof Josh Roose @joshroose.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
On ABC News Breakfast this morning discussing the attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue, its designation as a likely terror attack, the Avalite antisemitism taskforce, political leadership and the need to rebuild dialogue.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
FWIW, last year, @joshroose.bsky.social and I pointed to Ukraine as "[demonstrating] the importance of rejecting the hypermasculine chest-beating about the role of women in Western militaries that has become pervasive in some political quarters." irregularwarfare.org/articles/put...
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Putin’s Mobilization of Masculinity in the Invasion of Ukraine—and the Role of Ukrainian Women in Stopping Him - Irregular Warfare Initiative
Ukraine is showing the world how to mobilize women effectively.
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