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Posts tagged with ‘Ideology’

  • Jun202025

    Murder of the Universe? Efilist Terrorism in Palm Springs

    On the morning of 17 May 2025, a 25-year-old suspect carried out a suicide attack using a vehicle-borne improvised explosive…

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  • Jun202024

    On the Road to Quds: How the Axis of Resistance Defines Geopolitical Battlegrounds in Favour of Authoritarianism

    Introduction ‘Shia civilization awakened’, a Russian ideologue proclaimed on his Telegram channel in early 2024, hailing the infamous Axis of…

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  • Apr252024

    Imagining the Past: Justifications of Ideology in Incel Communities

    Introduction Incel (‘involuntary celibacy’) online communities have become known for hostile, misogynist ideology and a hopeless, deterministic and self-deprecating worldview.…

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  • Aug242023

    ‘Salad Bar Extremism’ as White Distraction: The (In)coherence of a Category

    Introduction In 2018, the United Kingdom renamed its ‘unspecified’ category for extremism referrals to ‘mixed, unclear, or unstable ideologies’ (MUU…

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  • Oct262022

    Ideological Leaderless Resistance in the Digital Age

    “As for my ideology, it’s hard to say” These are the words of a teenage terrorist who killed two in…

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  • Jun142021

    QAnon and the Great Awakening: How the Deep Web Rewrites Ideologies and Beliefs

    Web 2.0 technologies paved the way for the interactive web, opening a virtual topography easily accessible to countless people worldwide.…

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  • Jan262021

    Turner Diaries: Defining a Movement

    I first encountered the Turner Diaries in 1999, when a friend shared the book, with the advice that the novel…

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  • Dec032020

    Why Academic Struggles Over Words Matter

    Politicians, the media, and social media users alike have framed recent attacks in Europe as instances of “Islamist” violence. The…

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  • Aug072020

    The Role of the Internet in Facilitating Violent Extremism: Insights from Former Right-Wing Extremists

    In the past five years, it has become increasingly common for practitioners and policymakers in the Western world to draw…

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  • Jul172020

    The Cultivated Extremist? How the Identitarian Movement Frames its Ideology

    The Identitäre Bewegung (IB; Identitarian Movement) is the German branch of the transnational network of right-wing organisations affiliated to and…

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