Description
For the longest time, literature on far-right extremism has focused on racial supremacist groups and militias in the US and Europe. However, far-right extremism has come to encompass a whole range of ideologies and movements, such as anti-migrant nativist groups, conspiracy groups focused on state overreach, such as Q-Anon, anti-vaxxer movements, Islamophobic movements that pitch themselves as ‘counter-jihad’ groups including extreme right-wing nationalist Hindu and nativist Buddhist movements such as the ‘969’ movement, homophobic and misogynist groups in the ‘manaosphere’ such as “Incel”. What is little researched on are the manifestations of far-right ideas from this spectrum in Asia. This includes examining the initial inception of these ideas into Asia, the mobilisation and propagation of Asian adaptations of these far-right movements, how they strategically adapt their narratives to the Asian context, portray legitimacy and capture the victim narrative. Finally, the cross-pollination of far-right ideas from the East and West, including Asians ascribing to lesser understood groups from the West such as those promoting Goreposting and Schizoposting and celebrating a hybrid concoction of harmful ideologies will be illustrated.
