- Mar222022Dr. William Allchorn
The Role of Violent Conspiratorial Narratives in Violent and Non‐Violent Extreme Right Manifestos Online, 2015‐2020
in Report-GnetRead moreThe Executive Summary and Overview is also available in French, German, Arabic, Indonesian and Japanese. Please read on for the…
- Dec162021Dr. William Allchorn
Towards a Truly Post-Organisational UK Far Right? The Usefulness of a Newly Emergent Concept
in InsightsRead moreDespite recent hype around a post-organisational phase in extremist movements, the notion of a decentralised, leaderless group or movement –…
- Sep232021Dr. William Allchorn
From Direct Action to Terrorism: Canadian Radical Right Narratives and Counter-Narratives at a Time of Volatility
in InsightsRead moreFor several years now, radical right extremist groups and their terror potential have been on the radar of Canada’s Security…
- Jun072021Dr. William Allchorn
The Role of Conspiratorial Narratives in the Violent Radicalisation of Right-Wing Lone Actors
in InsightsRead moreConspiracy theories have been talked about a lot recently as a key ingredient in the radicalisation of right-wing lone actor…
- Apr262021Dr. William Allchorn
From Gangs to Groupuscules & Solo-Actor Terrorism: New Zealand Far-Right Narratives and Counter-Narratives in the Context of the Christchurch Attack
in InsightsRead moreAt 1.40pm on 15 March 2019, Christchurch shooter, Brenton Heston Tarrant, approached the Al-Noor Mosque near the city’s Hagley Park.…
- Feb222021Dr. William Allchorn
Turning Back to Biologised Racism: A Content Analysis of Patriotic Alternative UK’s Online Discourse
in InsightsRead moreThe UK far-right has experienced a marked transition in the past decade from parliamentary to more extra-parliamentary forms of activism.…
- Aug132020Dr. William Allchorn
Moving Away from Islamist Extremism: Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Far-Right Online
in InsightsRead moreOver the past decade and a half, counter-narratives – defined as ‘messages that…, deconstruct or delegitimise extremist narratives’ (Tuck and…
- Apr062020Dr. William Allchorn
Cumulative Extremism Online: How Moral and Strategic Aims Predict Narrative Escalation
in InsightsRead moreOften when extremisms come about, they don’t occur in isolation. In the UK, for example, the emergence of extremist mobilisations…
- Jan172020Dr. William Allchorn
Technology and the Swarm: A Dialogic Turn in Online Far-Right Activism
in InsightsRead moreEarlier this week, the outgoing director general of the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, Sir Andrew Parker, suggested that technology was…
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