REVIEW: Fear and loathing in New Zealand

Abstract

Fear: New Zealand’s hostile underworld of extremists, by Byron C Clark. Auckland: HarperCollins, 2023. 328 pages. ISBN 9781775542308. SINCE the horrific attacks in Christchurch in 2019 there has been substantial and growing attention paid to the extreme right in New Zealand. The pandemic—and the conspiracy theories and anti-government sentiment that developed in response—increased that scrutiny, and the sense of unease or alarm many felt about it.

Keywords

• alt-right
• conspiracy theories
• extremism
• far right
• fringe politics
• New Zealand