Julia Ebner Explained

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. .
• Radikalisierungsmaschinen: Wie Extremisten die neuen Technologien nutzen und uns manipulieren (radicalization machines: how extremists use new technology and manipulate us). Berlin: Suhrkamp Nova, 2019. .^[10]
• Going Dark: the Secret Social Lives of Extremists. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. .^{[11] [12]}
• Going Mainstream: how extremists are taking over. London: Bonnier Group, 2023. .

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. . Routledge, 2019. . Ebner contributes a chapter.

External links

• • Talk and Q&A on the Going Dark book Talks at Google

Notes and References

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