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Postdoctoral research fellow, Griffith University

Dr. Susan de Groot Heupner is a political sociologist with a research focus on populist mobilisations and the formation of hegemonic ideological constructions. She is an Adjunct Fellow at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research in Brisbane, Australia, where she conducts her own research on ideological fantasies and politics of hatred. In the position of Senior Researcher, she also coordinates a large survey on Indigenous media and broadcasting in Australia at Griffith University. In the position of Associate Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation in Melbourne, Australia, she works on two Australian Research Council projects examining religious populism, transnational polarisation, and emotive mobilisation. She is Managing Editor for the Journal of Alternative and Community Media, Editorial Board member for the Political Sociology section at Sociology Compass, and non-Resident Research Fellow at the European Center for Populism Studies. She has published in journals such as Politics and Religion, Religions, Journal of Intercultural Studies, and Journal of International Communication, and has a forthcoming monograph with Leiden University Press. She has also contributed to public media platforms like The Conversation and Enlighten.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Research fellow, Centre for Social and Cultural Research
  • 2022–present
    Postdoctoral research fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

Education

  • 2022 
    Griffith University , Doctor of Philosophy (Political Sociology)
  • 2016 
    Murdoch University, Honours in Politics and International Relations
  • 2015 
    Murdoch University, Bachelor of International Aid and Development

Publications

  • 2023
    Civilizational Fantasies in Populist Far Right and Islamist Discourses,
  • 2022
    Co-constructing ‘The’ Ummah: The Mutual Relations of (Populist) Far Right and Islamist Politics,
  • 2022
    "Je suis" … Charlie, Samuel, Muhammed: Practicing Muhammed Cartoons in Far Right and Islamist Politics,
  • 2022
    Locating the Ideal State: The Practice of Place by Far Right and Islamist Parties,,
  • 2021
    The Third Position on Far Right and Islamist Extremism,
  • 2020
    Dialectics in Critical International Relations Theory,
  • 2020
    Book Review: Islamophobia and Radicalisation: A Vicious Cycle,
  • 2020
    Continuity of Hegemonic Power? The Case of Modern Plantation Labour in North Sumatra, Indonesia,

Research Areas

  • Studies In Human Society (16)