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Networks of Hate: The Alt-right, “Troll Culture”, and the Cultural Geography of Social Movement Spaces Online

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  • Edwin Hodge
  • Helga Hallgrimsdottir

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The “alternative right” or “alt-right” is a quintessentially twenty-first century phenomenon: a radicalized far right ideology that is proliferated and disseminated almost exclusively online with members drawn from all over the world. This paper argues that online debates within alt-right online communities about the acceptability of alt-right language and imagery are claims-making exercises that constitute examples of bordering processes. These debates establish cultural borders around online communities and foster new virtual geographies of counter-hegemonic movements of the far right, that transcend and challenge the role and relevance of the physical border as a container for these movements. The paper concludes by placing these findings within current theoretical framings of the a-territorial border, with particular attention to what implications these have for the Pacific Northwest.

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  • Edwin Hodge & Helga Hallgrimsdottir, 2020. "Networks of Hate: The Alt-right, “Troll Culture”, and the Cultural Geography of Social Movement Spaces Online," Journal of Borderlands Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(4), pages 563-580, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjbsxx:v:35:y:2020:i:4:p:563-580
    DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2019.1571935
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