Anti-authority ideologies are a societal threat - ABC Religion & Ethics When Dezi Freeman was fatally shot this week, it brought an end to a seven-month manhunt. But his death also revives urgent questions about the way Australia is dealing with the rising threat of such ...

www.abc.net.au/religion/ant...

SIGN ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi Add your name to the Jewish Council petition today

jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

As Online Hate Turns Violent, Europe Still Lacks a Far-Right Strategy | TechPolicy.Press Europe faces rising street violence fueled by online hate, yet still lacks a coherent strategy beyond tech fixes to confront racism, writes William Burns.

Interesting long read.
www.techpolicy.press/as-online-ha...

Alternative Epistemology in Far-Right Anti-Publics: A Qualitative Study of Australian Activists - International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society Beliefs in hostile conspiracies against ‘Western civilisation’ or ‘white people’ play a key role in tying divergent far-right tropes together under an internally coherent meta-narrative. Claims of hav...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Muslim community volunteering: the civic-religious ‘culture of benevolence’ and its sociopolitical implications Policymakers across the West seek to promote volunteering among migrants and ethno-religious minorities as a way to foster their social incorporation. Volunteering within a minority community conte...

Muslim community volunteering: the civic-religious ‘culture of benevolence’ and its sociopolitical implications: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Vol 46, No 11 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#ERSNew 🐣🔓This multi-method empirical study among 862 people from racialised communities in Australia highlights how structural and psychological factors create barriers to speaking out against racism. Article: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2508393

INTERVIEW: Why don't people speak up against racism? Mistrust, fear and systematic barriers, these are the reasons why Victorians experiencing racism are hesitant to report the incidents, according to a new study by Victoria University. It also found th...

Radio interview on SBS. Good to see that this is getting some media attention.

www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast...

Majority of racism in Victoria goes unreported due to “high cost, low reward” system New VU research reveals most incidents of racism in Victoria go unreported.

The study argues that the current system for reporting racism is not working well for the communities who need it the most.
...
"We’re seeing the emergence of locally grounded alternatives that provide care, validation and advocacy...."

www.vu.edu.au/about-vu/new...

Speaking out against racism? Silence, agency and unheard voices among racialised communities in Australia Denying the persistence of racism and its impact on racially and culturally marginalised communities remains a key feature of how contemporary racism manifests. This denial is facilitated and reinf...

Happily sharing our new article about reporting barriers that silence the voices of those who experience racism.

Article is open access.

Speaking out against racism? Silence, agency and unheard voices among racialised communities in Australia
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fact-Checking Alone Cannot Tackle Conspiracies Traditional methods of myth busting remain important for slowing misinformation, but to properly stop it democracies will have to do much more.

"Traditional methods of myth busting remain important for slowing misinformation, but to properly stop it democracies will have to do much more."

thewire.in/media/fact-c...

‘You become a target’: research shows why many people who experience racism don’t report it New research shows only 15% of those surveyed reported the racism they endured. Many feared negative consequences, while others thought no one would care.

‘You become a target’: research shows why many people who experience racism don’t report it
theconversation.com/you-become-a...

Not as Fringe as We’d Like to Think: Building Broad Resistance to Far-right Mobilization illiberalism.org | Mario Peucker on the social drivers and embeddedness of far-right attitudes in our societies, and strategies to counter the far right's appeal.

New piece! Mario Peucker on the social drivers and embeddedness of far-right attitudes in our societies, and strategies to counter the far right's appeal. Check it out!

@mariopeucker.bsky.social

Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe [Official Trailor] 2025 Trailer for the documentary Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe. A story of resistance across generations, the power of family and the unrelenting struggle…

"A story of resistance across generations, the power of family and the unrelenting struggle for justice in a country [namely, Australia] that remains in denial."

Trailer: vimeo.com/1045934675?s...
www.ourwarriordoco.com

Not questioning that racism against different groups can manifest differently. But if we are blind to the common underlying system of racism, we will not make progress towards dismantling systems of racism and superiority, but get caught up in and distracted by 'victimisation hierarchies'.

Racism creates and cements a system of superiority claims and an unjust hierarchy that denies the fundamental principle of equal human dignity.

If in our attempts to address racism we apply different standards depending on what group we're talking about, we fall into the same 'hierarchy trap'.

Dangers to Democracy? A panel discussion in the Australian context YouTube video by Psychology of Change

Panel discussion 'Democracy in Danger' in Australia, but I'd argue the situation elsewhere is often so different.
(...and yes, I'm also not happy with the 'demographics' of the panel, including myself - it was raised beforehand. We must do better!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3EK...

Speaking out against #racism? #Silence, #agency and unheard voices among racialised communities in #Australia

Authors: @mariopeucker.bsky.social , Franka Vaughan, Jo Doley, Tom Clark

Victoria University

Coming soon!

#resistance #underreporting

Thanks for the chat.

A super-short summary of 'Democracy Strikes Back'.

Feed: "Pearls and Irritations"
By: Mario Peucker on Sunday, May 4, 2025

Sam Kerr’s alleged comments may have had a racial element, but they were not ‘racist’ writes Mario Peucker

www.nriaffairs.com/sam-kerrs-al...

Anleitung - Kampf gegen Rechtsextremismus? So geht's Was sind die Ursachen für Rechtsextremismus und wie kann er bekämpft werden? Die Wissenschaft hat dazu bereits Antworten geliefert.

Was sind die Ursachen für Rechtsextremismus und wie kann er bekämpft werden?

Die Wissenschaft hat dazu bereits Antworten geliefert.

Dem Staat kommt eine zentrale Rolle zu.

Von Dr. Mario Peucker

👉 www.migazin.de/2025/05/18/k...

#NieWieder
#Zivilgesellschaft
#DemokratieStärken

Democracy Strikes Back This book draws on empirical research from North America, Europe and Australia to present a nuanced picture of far right.

My first post on Bluesky - and using to to self-promote. What a start!

The book 'Democracy Strikes Back: Understanding and Countering the Rise of the Far-right' is out. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Let's see how all this works here on Bluesky...