Judith Goetz (born June 10, 1983, in

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) is an

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and

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

scholar, gender researcher, political illustrator and right-wing extremism expert.

Life

Goetz studied

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and Political Science at the Klagenfurt,

and

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from 2001 to 2010. Her diploma thesis entitled "Books against Forgetting" was dedicated to ''Carinthian Slovenian literature on resistance and persecution in the context of Holocaust autobiography''. During her studies, Goetz was a consultant for feminist politics at the Federal Representation of the Austrian Students' Union. From 2012, she was a lecturer at the

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, Klagenfurt,

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and Vienna. In 2016/2017 she was a consultant for political education at the Green Education Workshop. From 2017 to 2021, Goetz was employed as a university assistant at the Chair of Didactics of Civic Education at the Center for Teacher Education at the

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, in 2022 she moved to the teaching and research area of social and extracurricular civic education at the Institute of Educational Science at the

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. Her research focuses on

feminist theory Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or Philosophy, philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's Gender role, social roles, experiences, intere ...

, gender-reflective perspectives on

right-wing extremism Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the ...

antifeminism Antifeminism or anti-feminism is opposition to feminism. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, antifeminists opposed particular policy proposals for women's rights, such as the right to vote, educational opportunities, property righ ...

, memorial politics,

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and

antisemitism Antisemitism or Jew-hatred is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who harbours it is called an antisemite. Whether antisemitism is considered a form of racism depends on the school of thought. Antisemi ...

. Among other things, she deals with girls' organizations, antifeminism among fraternities and the Turquoise-Blue Government, the gender images and policies of the Identitarians and the communication and media strategies of the Identitarians. Goetz is a member of the editorial board of ''Context XXI'' and the

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(League against Racism and Anti-Semitism) and since 2018 also a member of the '' Austrian Society for Political Science''. As a member of the ''Ideologies and Politics of Inequality Research Group'' (FIPU), she was involved in the book ''Right-Wing Extremism - Volume 1: Developments and Analysis'' published in 2014. In it, she took a critical look at the protests against the WKR Ball in Vienna under the title ''Ausgetanzt! In addition to the follow-up volumes from 2016 (''Rechtsextremismus - Band 2: Prävention und politische Bildung'') and 2019 ''(Rechtsextremismus - Band 3: Geschlechterreflektierte Perspektiven''), Goetz is the author and (co-)editor of the fourth volume of the research group ''Rechtsextremismus - Band 4: Herausforderungen für den Journalismus''. Together with

Helga Amesberger Helga Amesberger (1960 in Waizenkirchen, Upper Austria) is an Austrian ethnologist, sociologist and political scientist. She has been working at the Vienna Institute for Conflict Research since the early 1990s. (IKF).http://www.ikf.ac.at/m_amesb. ...

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and Dirk Lange, she also edited the 2021 anthology ''Continuities of the Stigmatization of 'Asociality': Perspectives of Socially Critical Political Education'', for which she wrote several articles. In 2004, Goetz ran as the

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's top candidate in the Carinthian state elections.

References

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