Julia Ebner

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Julia Ebner (2018)

Julia Ebner (born July 24, 1991 in Vienna ) is an Austrian author and political advisor .

Life

Ebner began studying international management at the Vienna University of Economics in 2009 , which she obtained in 2013 with a B.Sc. completed. At the same time, she began studying philosophy at the University of Vienna in 2010 , which she completed with a BA in 2013 . She spent the winter semester 2011/2012 as an exchange semester at the ESSEC Business School near Paris. From 2013 to 2014 she studied political economy and development economics at the University of Beijing , her master's thesis on opportunities for the African mineral sector through growing markets in China and Europe was published in the journal Resources Policy published by Elsevier . From August to October 2014 she worked as a junior researcher at the European Institute for Asian Studies, an EU- supported think tank for politics and research, which was founded in 2006 by George Weidenfeld . Ebner studied international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2014 to 2015 , and wrote her master's thesis on the subject of Female suicide bombers : between victimization and demonization (1985-2015) .

From October 2015 to June 2017, Ebner worked as a senior researcher at the anti-extremism organization Quilliam Foundation , where she led research projects on terrorism prevention for the European Commission and the Kofi Annan Foundation and as an expert on the Home Affairs Select Committee for Right-Wing Extremism , a committee of the House of Commons . In her role as coordinator of the pan-European network “Families against Terrorism and Extremism” (FATE), she carried out projects to prevent radicalization in Europe and North Africa.

Since July 2017, Ebner has been a Resident Research Fellow at the London Institute for Strategic Dialogue, specializing in right-wing extremism, mutual radicalization and European terrorism prevention. Based on her research, Julia Ebner advises parliamentary working groups, frontline workers and tech companies, speaks at international conferences and holds workshops in schools and universities. She writes regularly for The Guardian and The Independent . In the broader public, Ebner is through numerous interviews, for example in the Tagesthemen , in heute-journal , ZDF special , in quer , appearances in talk shows such as B. Maybrit Illner , Markus Lanz , In the center , documentaries for example on ZDFneo and in the fact finder as well as internationally on BBC , CNN , France 24 , WNYC , Channel 4 and others. a. known.

For her book The Rage , published in September 2017 and presented as a German-language translation Wut at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018 , Ebner spent several months in a kind of infiltration technique both among right-wing extremists, including groups from the Identitarian Movement and the English Defense League , as well as radical ones Islamists embark. With false accounts on social media , she managed to get invited to election parties and strategy meetings of the new right groups around Martin Sellner . She describes attempts to win her as an influencer and poster girl. Similarly, she mingled like an undercover agent z. B. at meetings of u. a. Hizb ut-Tahrir was banned in the Arab countries and Germany .

Ebner is a PhD student at St. John's College of Oxford University , where she at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology pursuing a PhD project on the influence of echo chambers identity fusion and radicalization at Harvey Whitehouse.

Reviews

Barbara Junge found Ebner's book Wut to be a complex compendium in places, but this alone was a reason for her to “put the book on the shelf”. Ebner follows Huntington's clash of cultures and analyzes a “vicious circle of Islamist extremism and right-wing extremism”, for both extremes of which Western democracies “with the growing importance of identity politics” provide the “breeding ground”. The identity politics is the consequence of a "perceived socio-economic injustice" in the course of globalization , the banking crisis and the saying of " too big to fail ". Ebner puts the responsibility of stopping this global war in the hands of the (liberal) political and social center, because their deeds and inaction had produced anger as the main driving force behind extremism. Simone Hulliger from the SRF saw Ebner's covert research as an investigation into the dynamics that are making the mutually inciting Islamist and right-wing extremist terror on the rise and thus making it a considerable global threat. A Börsenblatt reviewer wrote that Ebner's book was a plea to "expose the extremists' communication strategy". Right-wing extremists and Islamists would 'write the same script' with the common goal of destroying democratic structures and undermining human rights.
A DLF Kultur reviewer said that "in view of the influx of right-wing extremists and Islamists" and the amazing similarities between the two groups, as described by Ebner, the question arises whether we are "in the age of anger".

Ebner's book Radicalization Machines was sharply criticized by Zeit reviewer Martin Eimermacher. The criminalistic treatment of the topic is not very exciting to read, he compares the moral inexorability with Jan Böhmermann . The argumentation is under-complex because it suggests, among other things, that the success of the AfD can be attributed to digital troll factories . Ebner is not interested enough in how ideologies arise.

Awards

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate Julia Ebner ( Memento from April 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales . February 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ The Nazi brand is currently being redefined. In: Berliner Zeitung, April 28, 2018
  3. ↑ Holly Young, Magda Rooze, Jonathan Russell, Julia Ebner, Norah Schulten: Evidence-based Policy Advice . In: TerRa Terrorism and Radicalization . July 2016.
  4. ↑ Julia Ebner ( Memento from May 7, 2017 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Quilliam Foundation .
  5. ^ Irregular War: The Future of Global Conflicts. In: Frontline Club . November 21, 2016 (English).
  6. ↑ The Extremism Paradox . In: Royal Society of Arts , October 26, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ What Islamists and right-wing extremists do to us. In: the daily newspaper , March 16, 2018.
  8. ↑ Julia Ebner. In: The Guardian .
  9. ↑ Julia Ebner. In: The Independent .
  10. ↑ Tensions attract extremists . In: Topics of the day . 5th June 2017.
  11. ^ Christian Sievers : Assassin in London . In: heute-journal . 22nd March 2017.
  12. ^ Attack in London . In: ZDF special . 4th June 2017.
  13. ↑ Risk of further attacks in Ramadan . In: ZDF special . 4th June 2017.
  14. ↑ Christoph Suess : How rights are taking over the Internet . In: across . March 22, 2018.
  15. ↑ Brexit, terror, alliance crises - what answer does Europe have? ( Memento of April 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: Maybrit Illner (TV broadcast) . June 8, 2017.
  16. ↑ Broadcast on April 4, 2018 . ( Memento from April 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: Markus Lanz (television broadcast) .
  17. ↑ Claudia Reiterer : Powerless against terror? . In: In the center . June 11, 2017.
  18. ↑ Liberation from the Salafism trap . In: ZDFneo . October 29, 2017.
  19. ↑ Patrick Gensing , Lena Kampf: How trolls manipulated in the election campaign . In: fact finder . 1st March 2018.
  20. ^ Svea Eckert, Patrick Gensing: Loud minority . In: fact finder . 20th February 2018.
  21. ^ Jan-Christoph Kitzler: Hate as a strategy . In: fact finder . 19th March 2018.
  22. ^ Gordon Corera: Is there a growing far-right threat online? In: BBC , July 8, 2019 (English).
  23. ↑ Infiltrating the far-right. In: BBC , July 9, 2019 (English).
  24. ↑ UK referendum debate resumes after Jo Cox's killing. In: CNN , June 20, 2016 (English).
  25. ^ François Picard: Westminster attack: What response to parliament rampage? (part 1) In: France 24 , March 23, 2017 (English).
  26. ^ The Cycle of Rage Between Islamists and Right-Wing Extremists. In: The Brian Lehrer Show , January 24, 2018 (English).
  27. ↑ Krishnan Guru-Murthy: Julia Ebner: “He seemed to be obsessed with an idea that all Muslims are terrorists”. In: Channel 4 , February 1, 2018 (English).
  28. ↑ Anna Rinderspacher: What a 26-year-old Viennese learned when she joined right-wing extremists. In: The Huffington Post via Yahoo , March 31, 2018.
  29. ↑ Werner Reisinger: Brothers in the Spirit. In: Wiener Zeitung , April 7, 2018 (interview).
  30. ↑ Julia Ebner. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  31. ↑ Barbara Junge : War of the Extremists or Clash of Cultures. In: the daily newspaper , March 14, 2018.
  32. ↑ Simone Hulliger: "Islamists and right-wing extremists play in the hands". In: SRF , February 28, 2018 (interview).
  33. ↑ Michael Roesler-Graichen: "Then the politicians, media and voters dance according to the script". In: Börsenblatt , March 5, 2018 (interview).
  34. ^ Christian Rabhansl: What do right-wing extremists and Islamists have in common? In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , March 17, 2018.
  35. ↑ Martin Eimermacher: Julia Ebner: Nazi hunting in the net . In: The time . October 14, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 8, 2020]).
  36. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book 2018 to Julian Nida-Rümelin and Nathalie Weidenfeld . OTS report from January 1, 2019, accessed on January 1, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Ebner, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian extremism researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna