This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Byron Clark [Twitter/Mastodon]. Byron is the author of Fear: New Zealand’s hostile underworld of extremists (HarperCollins, 2023), which ‘maps New Zealand’s alt-right underworld and unearths the roots of the occupation that ended in a violent protest on the grounds of Parliament’ in early 2022. We spoke to Byron about the book and his experience monitoring the far-right in Aotearoa/New Zealand (Cam previously spoke to Byron about Kiwi conspiracists in August 2021).
See/hear also : Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa New Zealand, Matthew Cunningham, Marinus La Rooij and Paul Spoonley (eds), Otago University Press, 2023 | For victims and their families, there are still lingering questions about the Christchurch terrorist attack, Emily Clark, ABC, March 12, 2023 | Pandemic madness ‘just a rehearsal’, Byron Clark, newsroom, March 9, 2023 | Teen who planned terror attack in Auckland said he was ready for ‘martyrdom’, Catrin Owen, RNZ, March 8, 2023| Author Byron Clark talks to John about his new book on the alt-right in New Zealand, Real Life With John Cowan, NewstalkZB, February 23, 2023 | Fear and loathing in New Zealand: an overdue examination of our ‘underworld of extremists’ is valuable but flawed, Chris Wilson, The Conversation, February 15, 2023 | Fear: New Zealand’s hostile underworld of extremists, Byron Clark, Stuff, February 12, 2023 | Notes in the letterbox, being followed, and death threats: Life as a leading alt-right researcher, Stuff, February 12, 2023 | Far-right YouTuber films himself stalking and confronting anti-hate speech activist at his workplace, Nadine Porter, Stuff, July 22, 2022.
4.30pm, Thursday, March 16, 2023 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website
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