Sara Salman

Sara's research focuses on structural and political violence. Sara studies the relationship between state and citizen in late modern western democratic regimes. Her recent book, The Shaming State, examines the erosion of social rights and the political use of shame against people in need, and argues that shame exacerbates the decline of social solidarity in neoliberal western regimes.

Sara also researches terrorism and extremist violence. Through the lenses of cultural criminology and critical social theory, she explores these forms of violence in connection to resurgent hyper nationalism and masculinity. Sara has written on the recruitment of men and women into terrorist groups as well as the connection between gender and extremist violence.

Sara engages in public debates on structural and political violence. She has been interviewed in national and international media including Stuff and the New York Times. Her work has appeared in E-Tangata, the NZ Herald and the Spin Off.