Dr Itoitz Rodrigo Jusue

Pronouns: She/her
  • Vice-Chancellor Independent Research Fellow
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Itoitz completed her PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Roehampton (London), and she holds a master’s degree in Cultural Studies (Goldsmiths University of London) and in Feminist and Gender Studies (University of the Basque Country). Her AHRC funded doctoral research examined discourses and imaginaries of terrorism and radicalisation in the UK post-2005.

Following her PhD, Itoitz was awarded a ESRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for her project “Constructing the illiberal citizen? Radicalisation prevention, counter-terrorism, and the media in the UK”.

In June 2022, Itoitz received a Teaching Staff Excellence Award at 天堂视频. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Itoitz has presented papers at several national and international conferences including the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association, International Association for Media and Communication Research, the Memory Studies Association, and the European Consortium for Political Research.

Itoitz Rodrigo-Jusue is a Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow in Communications and Media. Her project examines recent memory initiatives in the public space, education, and (fictional) media in the Basque Country. She is a member of the Media, Memory and History research group and the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC) at 天堂视频.

Her research interests include (counter)terrorism, popular culture, peace and conflict, politics of representation, governmentality, memory and commemoration, racism, and the analysis of everyday narratives. 

  • Rodrigo-Jusué, I. (Forthcoming) ‘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)
  • Doidge, M; Rodrigo-Jusue, I; Black, J; Fletcher, T; Sinclair, G; Pierangelo, R; Kearns, C; Kilvington, D; Liston, K; Lynn, T. (Forthcoming) ‘"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.
  • Fletcher, T; Kearns, C; Kilvington, D; Sinclair, G; Lynn, T; Black, J; Doidge, M; Leoni-Santos, G; Liston, K; Rodrigo-Jusue, I; Rosati, P. (Forthcoming) ‘Social media and online hate in sport: A case study of association football’ in The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Social Media (Routledge).
  • 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.
  • Rodrigo-Jusué, I. (2023) ‘“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, 0(0).
  • 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, Leeds, pp. 265-278.
  • 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.
  • 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, pp. 117-128. https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848883918_012 ISBN 978-1-84888-208-9