Dr Itoitz Rodrigo Jusue

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  • Vice-Chancellor Independent Research Fellow
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Itoitz Rodrigo-Jusue is a Vice-Chancellor Independent Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. She joined Loughborough University after completing her AHRC-Techne funded PhD at the University of Roehampton (London) in 2021. She also holds master’s degrees in Cultural Studies (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Feminist and Gender Studies (University of the Basque Country).

In 2022, Itoitz was awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for her project, Constructing the Illiberal Citizen? Radicalisation Prevention, Counter-Terrorism, and the Media in the UK, which critically analysed the development of counter-radicalisation and counter-extremism strategies post-2005. That same year, she received a Teaching Staff Excellence Award at Loughborough University and was awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

Itoitz has presented her research at national and international conferences, including the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), the Memory Studies Association (MSA), and the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).

Itoitz Rodrigo-Jusue is a member of the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC) at Loughborough University. Her research focuses on violence and (in)security, with a particular interest in media, identities, and social change. Her work spans Critical Terrorism Studies, Critical Security Studies, Communication and Media Studies, Governmentality Studies, Memory Studies, Critical Race Theory and Gender and Queer studies.

Previously, Itoitz worked as a Research Associate on the AHRC-IRC-funded project Tackling Online Hate in Football, which examined the rise of hate speech and abuse in online discussions about football. Currently, as a Vice-Chancellor Independent Research Fellow, she is investigating the commemoration of political violence in public spaces, education, and (fictional) media in the Basque Country. Bringing together the fields of Memory Studies and Critical Security Studies, her project explores how memory work on past political violence contributes to societal well-being and/or deepens existing divisions.

Itoitz’s work has been published in leading social sciences and humanities journals, including the European Journal of Cultural Studies, British Politics, Critical Studies on Terrorism, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She has also recently published a monograph, Re-Defining Terrorism: Imaginaries of Radicalisation and Radicalisation, on the emergence of the counter-radicalisation agenda in the UK and beyond. The book explores (counter)radicalisation as a new technology of governance, embedded in the production and promotion of particular mentalities, conducts, identities, and subjectivities, offering original insights into its extensive effects. It also highlights the role of the media in the (re)production of new imaginaries of terror.

Monograph

 Journal Articles

  • Rodrigo-Jusué, I; Liston, K; Doidge, M; Black, J; Sinclair, G; Fletcher, T; Kearns, C; Lynn, T. (2025) ‘#SeAcabó: How a mass-mediated “social drama” made visible and confronted (subjective and objective) violence in women’s football in Spain’. Feminist Media Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2025.2461123
  • Doidge, M; Rodrigo-Jusué, I; Black, J; Fletcher, T; Sinclair, G; Rosati, P.; Kearns, C; Kilvington, D; Liston, K; Lynn, T. (2024) ‘"Kneeling only goes to highlight your ignorance. England is NOT! a #racist country": Aversive racism, colour-blindness, and racist temporalities in discussions of football online’. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(20), 5067–5084 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2377775
  • Rodrigo-Jusué, I. (2024) ‘“It’s like almost hypnotised people”: An exploration of vernacular discourses and social imaginaries of terrorism in the United Kingdom’. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(6), 1266-1284 https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494231218167
  •  Rodrigo-Jusué, I. (2024) ‘The media, terrorism, and censorship in the UK: conflicting imagined audiences in British parliamentary debates in 1988 and 2018’. British Politics 19(1), 64–83 10.1057/s41293-023-00249-8
  • Rodrigo-Jusué, I. (2022) ‘Counter-Terrorism Training “At Your Kitchen Table”: The promotion of “CT citizens” and the securitization of everyday life in the UK’ in Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15(2), 290-310 https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2021.2013014

Book Chapters

  • Fletcher, T; Kearns, C; Kilvington, D; Sinclair, G; Lynn, T; Black, J; Doidge, M; Leoni-Santos, G; Liston, K; Rodrigo-Jusué, I; Rosati, P. (2025) ‘Social media and online hate in sport: A case study of association football’, Billings, A.C.; Hardin, M. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Social Media, Routledge https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Sport-and-Social-Media/Billings-Hardin/p/book/9781032666198
  • Rodrigo-Jusué, I. (2024) ‘Contested memories and the (re)construction of violent pasts in the Basque Country: A critical examination of the Memorial Centre for the Victims of Terrorism in Vitoria-Gasteiz’, Karcher, K., Dimcheva, Y., Toribio-Medina, M. (Ed.), Remembering, Forgetting and Anticipating Urban Terrorism in Europe since 2004, Palgrave MacMillan Memory Studies, 103-128 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53789-9_7
  • Rodrigo-Jusué, I. (2023) ‘The Representation of Women's Involvement in (Non-State) Political Violence: Dominant Myths and Narratives Surrounding ‘Radicalised’ Women in the UK’, Banwel, S., Black, L., Cecil, D.K., Djamba, Y.K., Kimuna, S.R., Milne, E., Seal, L. and Tenkorang, E.Y. (Ed.) The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 265-278 https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-255-620231018
  • Rodrigo-Jusué, I. (2019) ‘Queer Love: Love Policies, Possible Love and Tolerance’, Gardiner, L. & Pfister, S.V. (Ed.) Past and Present: Perspectives on Gender and Love, Brill, 117-128 https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848883918_012