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Global Heating and the Australian Far Right examines the
environmental politics of far-right actors and movements in
Australia, exploring their broader political context and responses
to climate change. The book traces the development of far-right
pseudo-environmentalism and territorial politics, from colonial
genocide and Australian nationalism to extreme-right political
violence. Through a critical analysis of news and social media, it
reveals how denialist and resignatory attitudes towards climate
change operate alongside extreme right accelerationism, in a wider
Australian political context characterised by reactionary fossil
fuel politics and neoliberal New Right climate change agendas. The
authors scrutinise the manipulation of environmental politics by
contemporary Australian far- and extreme-right actors in
cross-national online media. They also assess the
political-ideological context of the contemporary far right,
addressing intergovernmental approaches to security threats
connected to the far right and climate change, and the emergence of
radical environmentalist traditions in ‘New Catastrophism’
literature. The conclusion synthesises key insights, analysing the
mainstreaming of ethnonationalist and authoritarian responses to
global heating, and potential future trajectories of far-right
movements exploiting the climate crisis. It also emphasises the
necessity for radical political alternatives to counter the far
right’s exploitation of climate change. This book will be of
interest to researchers of climate change, the far right,
neoliberal capitalism, extremism and Australian politics.
* A comprehensive mixed-methods analysis of criminologists'
engagement with the media. * Includes a range of media, from
traditional news outlets to social media.
* A comprehensive mixed-methods analysis of criminologists'
engagement with the media. * Includes a range of media, from
traditional news outlets to social media.
This ground-breaking book examines the political-economic
characteristics of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century
'neo-jihadism'. Drawing on Bourdieusian and neo-Marxist ideas, it
investigates how the neo-jihadist organisations Al Qaeda and
Islamic State engage with the capitalist paradigm of neoliberalism
in their anti-capitalist propaganda and quasi-capitalist financial
practices. Richards reveals interactions between neoliberalism and
neo-jihadism characterised by surface-level contradiction, and
structural connections that are both dialectical and mutually
reinforcing. Neoliberalism here constitutes an underlying 'status
quo', while neo-jihadism, as an evolving form of political
organisation, is perpetuated as part of this situation.
Representing unique and exclusive examples of the (r)evolutionary
phenomenon of neo-jihadism, Al Qaeda and Islamic State have
reconstituted the dominant political-economic paradigm of
neoliberalism they mobilised in response to. -- .
This ground-breaking book examines the political-economic
characteristics of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century
'neo-jihadism'. Drawing on Bourdieusian and neo-Marxist ideas, it
investigates how the neo-jihadist organisations Al Qaeda and
Islamic State engage with the capitalist paradigm of neoliberalism
in their anti-capitalist propaganda and quasi-capitalist financial
practices. An investigation of documents and discourses reveals
interactions between neoliberalism and neo-jihadism characterised
by surface-level contradiction, and structural connections that are
both dialectical and mutually reinforcing. Neoliberalism here is
argued to constitute an underlying 'status quo', while
neo-jihadism, as an evolving form of political organisation, is
perpetuated as part of this situation. Representing differentiated,
unique and exclusive examples of the (r)evolutionary phenomenon of
neo-jihadism, Al Qaeda and Islamic State are characteristic of the
mutually constitutive nature of 'power and resistance'. Just as
resistance movements throughout modern history come to resemble the
forms of power they sought to overthrow, so too have Al Qaeda and
Islamic State reconstituted the dominant political-economic
paradigm of neoliberalism they mobilised in response to. -- .
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