Dr. Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Diaspora Geography at the School of History and Geography, where he works on the project Diaspora Diplomacy and the Migration-Development Nexus. He has previously been a Research Fellow at the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), University of Tunis, as well as an Assistant Professor and Research Assistant at the School of Law and Government, DCU. His research explores the intersections of security, development, and migration policies in postcolonial settings. He has published in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, L’Année du Maghreb, and Surveillance & Society. His first monograph, Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in a Postcolonial Context: Security, Democracy, and Religion in Tunisia, was published with Routledge in August 2025.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu (2025) 'Vernacular Security and Religion in Tunisia: The Role of Local Imams in the Implementation of Preventing Violent Extremism Measures'. Surveillance & Society, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Cuccu, Fabrizio Leonardo; Bonci, Alessandra (2024) 'Security and religion in democratizing Tunisia: re-enacting surveillance through religious narratives and gendered dynamics'. L'Année du Maghreb, 31 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Cuccu, F.L. (2024) 'The ‘situatedness’ of security in postcolonial spaces: Examining the historical and spatial trajectories of localised practices in Tunisia'. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 37 . [Link] [DOI] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2023 | Cuccu, F.L. (2023) 'Prevention politics in non-Western contexts: Training imams in post-revolutionary Tunisia' In: Vulnerability Governing the Social Through Security Politics. [Link] | |
| 2025 | Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu (2025) '“You have a responsibility to tell this story”. Vernacular security as decolonial research in Tunisia' In: New Directions in Vernacular Security Research. [Link] |
Book
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Cuccu, F.L. (2025) Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in a Postcolonial Context: Security, Democracy, and Religion in Tunisia. [Link] |
Research Interests
Political Science, Counterterrorism, Postcolonial Studies, Migration, Security