Dr Max Harwood
Senior Associate/Adjunct Fellow & Sessional Lecturer
Institution
NSW Premier's Department / Macquarie University
Research Area Keywords: Australian white nationalism and ideology, white nationalist phenomenology and digital subculture, Great Replacement theory violent extremism, ideological mass shooters.
Contact: max.harwood@mq.edu.au
About Max
Dr Max Harwood is a sessional lecturer, unit convenor and adjunct fellow with the Department of Anthropology (Macquarie School of Social Sciences), and a Senior Associate with the NSW Premier's Department Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program.
As an anthropologist, Max specialises in ethnographic filmmaking, and was based in Istanbul, Tel Aviv and Ottawa from 2011-2019 as he completed both his honours and doctoral fieldwork. His PhD studied Turkish and Israeli masculinity, nationalism and militarism, producing both a feature length documentary film and a written dissertation.
His doctoral thesis was examined by Dr Ahron Bregman (King's College London), Prof Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge) and Assoc. Prof Jennifer Deger (James Cook University). His doctoral supervisor was Prof Christopher Houston (Macquarie University).
Since returning to Sydney, Max's research focus is on modern white nationalism and far-right extremism - specifically the online subculture, politics and phenomenology of Australian white nationalists - as well as the globalised phenomenon of Replacement Theory violent extremists.
Max is currently writing a book on the phenomenology of Replacement Theory violent extremists. It is tentatively titled 'Living Death'.
Publications
Transcendental terror: Zen self-transformation through white supremacist atrocity, from Nazi Germany to Utøya and Christchurch (2023).
In C. Houston, & J-P. Baldacchino (Eds.), Self-alteration: how people change themselves across cultures.
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Living death: imagined history and the Tarrant Manifesto (2021).
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