Researcher Profile

  • Senior Lecturer Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University

  • Violent extremism/countering violent extremism; extremism and social cohesion; online extremism; far-left extremism; far-right extremism; Religion and extremism; Religion and terrorism; Jihadism; South Asian studies.

  • Far-right extremism online; far-left extremism online; Jihadist discourse and online propaganda; CVE evaluation; CVE and societal resilience program development; South Asian religious extremism and terrorism; Soft power and social cohesion

  • Droogan, J., Waldek, L., Hutchinson, J., Ballsun-Stanton, B. (2021). Far Right Ecosystems: A Review. RESOLVE Network.

    Waldek, L., Droogan, J., & Lumby, C. (2021). Feeling terrified? The diversity of emotions to online violent extremism. Elements Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Peucker, M., Droogan, J. & Holmes, S. (2021). Left-wing extremism and radicalism: The complexities of a (non)violent struggle for a better world. In W. Allchorn (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Extremism. New York: Routledge.

    Department of Security Studies and Criminology. (2020). Mapping networks and narratives of online right-wing extremists in New South Wales. Research findings report for the NSW Department of Communities and Justice.

    Droogan, J. (2019). Pakistan’s terrorist challenge. In A. Tan & B. Schreer (Eds.), Terrorism and political violence in the Asia-Pacific (pp. 72-85). New York: Routledge.

    Droogan, J., & Waldek, L. (2019). Terrorism and social media in the Asia Pacific. In A. Tan & B. Schreer (Eds.), Terrorism and political violence in the Asia-Pacific (pp. 31-44). New York: Routledge.

    Droogan, J., & Peattie, S. (2019). Islamophobia in Al-Qa’ida’s and Islamic State’s English-language magazines. In J. Esposito & D. Iner (Eds.), Islamophobia and radicalization (pp. 139-158). Palgrave Macmillan.

    Droogan, J., & Waldek, L. (2018). Religion, radicalisation, and violent extremism? In J. Hoges et.al. (Eds.), Does religion cause violence: Multiple perspectives on violence and religion in the modern world (pp. 173-189). London: Bloomsbury.

    Droogan, J., & Peattie, S. (2018). Reading jihad: Mapping the shifting themes of Inspire magazine. Terrorism and Political Violence, 30(4), 684-717.

    Droogan, J., & Peattie, S. (2017). Mapping the thematic landscape of Dabiq magazine. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 71(6), 591-620.

  • Disinformation and Social Cohesion; and Radicalisation and Extremism.


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    Email Address julian.droogan@mq.edu.au

 

Julian Droogan

Overview

Dr. Droogan works on issues of extremism and terrorism and their impact on social cohesion. He has led and co-led several funded projects for government looking at online extremist narratives and recruitment strategies, as well as on the construction of the NSW COMPACT CVE program. He has a background in the anthropology of religion and published on jihadist online propaganda and extremism in South Asia. His work straddles academic scholarship and practitioner-focussed outputs, including the formal evaluation of Australian countering far-right extremism initiatives. He currently serves as Editor for Routledge’s Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (JPICT).