When Brenton Tarrant live-streamed his massacre of 51 Muslims in Christchurch, NZ, in March 2019, he was but one in a series of lone-acting white men committing violent crime to further the radical white nationalist aim to save the white race from extinction and establish a white ethnostate. From where did white nationalists get the notion of an ongoing white genocide? Why should "resistance" against a perceived invasion of "white" territory be launched by individual "lone wolves" massacring non-combatants they had no prior relation to? How could slaughtering children be construed as a heroic act that a perpetrator wants to broadcast to the world? Based on a collection of interviews with lone wolves, their victims, and supporters, and a close reading of lone wolf, fascist, and radical nationalist material and communication, this Element provides answers to these and adjacent questions of importance.
- | Author: Mattias Gardell
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: July 01, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 120 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1108711138
- | ISBN-13: 9781108711135
