The notion of a superior “civilisation” has been a hallmark of the politics of Western institutions and fringe white supremacists alike. Known ideologically as “civilisationism”, it has occupied a prominent position in the ideology of the Australian far‐right. Paying tribute to their settler‐colonial origins, the far‐right has consistently promoted “white civilisation”, even inspiring terrorist attacks. Despite this propensity for violence, far‐right civilisationism remains largely unexplored. Through investigating a dataset of Australian far‐right content, this paper reveals civilisationism as a significant part of their ideology, an ideology which relies on the idealisation of European technologies and environments to render Indigenous land and people uncivilised. A critical narrative analysis of the data illustrates the ways that these ecological factors are drawn into narrative to articulate Australian far‐right civilisationism, an ideology inseparable from the political ecology of European history and colonialism, that today represents a particularly virulent version of its legacy.
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