Special Section: Alt-Rights in Canada Introduction

摘要

Over the past two decades, new political formations combining populism, neo-fascism,extractivism, racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia, whitesupremacy, and ultra-nationalism have stormed the globe. These new political formationshave been grouped together under the nebulous denomination of alt-right(Ganesh, 2020; Gray, 2018; Salazar, 2018; Woods & Hahner, 2018). The term beganas an act of political branding by white supremacist Richard Spencer (Bar-On, 2019)to normalize his extremist politics. Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos (2016),early adopters of the term, described the alt-right in Breitbart News as an anti-establishmentand “amorphous movement” (para. 2) comprised of dark intellectuals,conservatives, and meme makers.