Giacomo Loperfido is an invited Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona. He has held previous positions at the University of Fort Hare, the Centre for Humanities Research, and University of the Western Cape.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Enigma of ExtremismGiacomo LoperfidoChapter 1. Getting Ready for the Dark Ages? Preppers, Populists and Climate Prophets: The Disintegration of Global Hegemony, PC Hysteria, and the Deplorable Ugliness of DeclineKajsa Ekholm Friedman and Jonathan FriedmanChapter 2. Are We All Extremists Now?Agnieszka PasiekaChapter 3. How Boko Haram’s ‘Liminal’ Child Witches and Child Soldiers Challenge the Capitalist State: An Animist Critique of Neo-libealism’s Ideology of ExtremismCaroline IfekaChapter 4. The Empire and the Barbarians: Cosmological Laceration and the Social Establishment of ExtremismGiacomo LoperfidoChapter 5. Suicide Bombing and Social DeathRohan BastinChapter 6. Retreat to the Future: The Role of Apocalyptic Thought in Current Ethno-Nationalist ExtremismAndrew F. WilsonChapter 7. Extremism as Immanence and Process: The Trump TransmutationRoland Kapferer and Bruce Kapferer

Giacomo Loperfido is an invited Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona. He has held previous positions at the University of Fort Hare, the Centre for Humanities Research, and University of the Western Cape.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Enigma of ExtremismGiacomo LoperfidoChapter 1. Getting Ready for the Dark Ages? Preppers, Populists and Climate Prophets: The Disintegration of Global Hegemony, PC Hysteria, and the Deplorable Ugliness of DeclineKajsa Ekholm Friedman and Jonathan FriedmanChapter 2. Are We All Extremists Now?Agnieszka PasiekaChapter 3. How Boko Haram’s ‘Liminal’ Child Witches and Child Soldiers Challenge the Capitalist State: An Animist Critique of Neo-libealism’s Ideology of ExtremismCaroline IfekaChapter 4. The Empire and the Barbarians: Cosmological Laceration and the Social Establishment of ExtremismGiacomo LoperfidoChapter 5. Suicide Bombing and Social DeathRohan BastinChapter 6. Retreat to the Future: The Role of Apocalyptic Thought in Current Ethno-Nationalist ExtremismAndrew F. WilsonChapter 7. Extremism as Immanence and Process: The Trump TransmutationRoland Kapferer and Bruce Kapferer

Giacomo Loperfido is an invited Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona. He has held previous positions at the University of Fort Hare, the Centre for Humanities Research, and University of the Western Cape.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Enigma of ExtremismGiacomo LoperfidoChapter 1. Getting Ready for the Dark Ages? Preppers, Populists and Climate Prophets: The Disintegration of Global Hegemony, PC Hysteria, and the Deplorable Ugliness of DeclineKajsa Ekholm Friedman and Jonathan FriedmanChapter 2. Are We All Extremists Now?Agnieszka PasiekaChapter 3. How Boko Haram’s ‘Liminal’ Child Witches and Child Soldiers Challenge the Capitalist State: An Animist Critique of Neo-libealism’s Ideology of ExtremismCaroline IfekaChapter 4. The Empire and the Barbarians: Cosmological Laceration and the Social Establishment of ExtremismGiacomo LoperfidoChapter 5. Suicide Bombing and Social DeathRohan BastinChapter 6. Retreat to the Future: The Role of Apocalyptic Thought in Current Ethno-Nationalist ExtremismAndrew F. WilsonChapter 7. Extremism as Immanence and Process: The Trump TransmutationRoland Kapferer and Bruce Kapferer