Julia Ebner

Austrian writer

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Institute for Strategic Dialogue (2017–)
United Nations (2020–2021)

Julia Ebner (born 24 July 1991) is an Austrian researcher, and author, based in London.^[1] She has written the books The Rage: the Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism, Going Dark: the Secret Social Lives of Extremists and Going Mainstream: how extremists are taking over.

Career

Ebner holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where she is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Calleva Centre for Evolution and Human Science at Magdalen College. ^[2] She has a BA in philosophy and a BSc in international business. She holds an MSc in international history from the London School of Economics and an MSc in international relations from Peking University.^[3]

Ebner is based in London and Oxford.^[1] Between 2015 and 2017 she worked as a senior researcher at the counter-extremism organisation Quilliam.^[3] In 2017 she joined the counter-extremism organisation Institute for Strategic Dialogue as a research fellow,^[3]^[4] where she specialises in far-right extremism, reciprocal radicalisation and European terrorism prevention initiatives. She has written for The Guardian^[5] and The Independent.^[6]

Going Dark: the Secret Social Lives of Extremists documents Ebner's experiences over two years spent undercover, infiltrating far-right networks such as Generation Identity^[1]^[7] and Reconquista Germanica,^[7] both on-line and in person.^[8]

Her latest book Going Mainstream: how extremists are taking over was published in 2023. It is based on investigative reporting and interviews and asks why extremist ideas and concepts increasingly enter mainstream politics and societal discourse.^[9]

Publications

Publications by Ebner

The Rage: the Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017. ISBN 978-1788310321.
Radikalisierungsmaschinen: Wie Extremisten die neuen Technologien nutzen und uns manipulieren (radicalization machines: how extremists use new technology and manipulate us). Berlin: Suhrkamp Nova, 2019. ISBN 978-3-518-47007-7.^[10]
Going Dark: the Secret Social Lives of Extremists. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. ISBN 9781526616784.^[11]^[12]
Going Mainstream: how extremists are taking over. London: Bonnier Group, 2023. ISBN 1804183156.

Publications with contributions by Ebner

Education and Extremisms: Rethinking Liberal Pedagogies in the Contemporary World. Edited by Farid Panjwani, Lynn Revell, Reza Gholami, and Mike Diboll. Routledge, 2017. ISBN 9781138236110. Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9780367198718. Ebner contributes a chapter.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Sturges, Fiona (14 February 2020). "Julia Ebner: 'There's an adrenaline rush in undercover work, getting inside a far-right movement'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-02-15 – via www.theguardian.com.
^ "Julia Ebner". University of Oxford. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Julia Ebner". Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
^ "'I used online identities to flush out neo-fascists and violent activists'". i. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
^ "Julia Ebner". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
^ "Julia Ebner". The Independent. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
^ ^a ^b "Why People Join Extremist Networks and What Keeps Them There". Time. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
^ "Internetforscherin Julia Ebner fordert intensivere Überwachung rechter Seiten im Netz". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
^ "I infiltrate incel groups posing as a man". The Times. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
^ Eimermacher, Martin (14 October 2019). "Julia Ebner: Nazi-Jagd im Netz". Die Zeit. Hamburg. ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 2020-02-19 – via Die Zeit.
^ Freeman, Colin (16 February 2020). "Going Dark by Julia Ebner review: the woman who went undercover with extremists". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2020-02-19 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
^ Urwin, Rosamund. "Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner review — inside the web of hate". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2020-02-19 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.