Yeah Nah Pasaran! #169 w Ashley Mattheis on Atomwaffen, The Allen, Texas, Attack & More : July 13, 2023

Above: Tim Wilms (The Unhinged) and Jarrad Searby (Proud Boys/National Socialist Network/Finks/Melbourne Magistrates’ Court) pose for the camera. Wilms is wearing RWDS merch popularised by the Proud Boys and, more recently, mass murderer Mauricio Garcia.

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Ashley Mattheis [Twitter]. Ashley has a PhD. in Communication, is a feminist and studies the material effects of cultural production and consumption, the use of web-based media, and online misogynies. She was a previous guest of ours in April 2021 when we talked about memes, Momfluencers, Shieldmaidens & moar. On this episode we spoke to Ashley about the ongoing legacy of the defunct Atomwaffen Division in its various guises and as part of a wider network of neo-Nazi terror; Mauricio Garcia, the Allen, Texas, mass shooting and the importance of applying an intersectional analytic framework to aid our understanding of such events.

See also : The Allen, Texas, Attack: Ideological Fuzziness and the Contemporary Nature of Far-Right Violence, Ashley A. Mattheis, Amarnath Amarasingam, Graham Macklin, Marc-André Argentino, CTC Sentinel, Vol.16, No.6, June 2023 | Atomwaffen Division and its Affiliates on Telegram: Variations, Practices, and Interconnections, Ashley Mattheis, RESOLVE Network, 2022. On Right Wing Death Squads as meme, see : Tracing the Odnoklassniki Profile of the Texas Mall Shooter, Aric Toler, Bellingcat, May 9, 2023 | How the Texas Shooter’s RWDS Patch Became a Meme, Zach D. Roberts, The Progressive, May 10, 2023.

4.30pm, Thursday, July 13, 2023 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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