The master’s thesis examines ecofascism as an emerging yet ideologically ambiguous pheno-menon within contemporary far-right movements, with particular focus on its articulation within digital communities. Specifically, the /pol/ board on 4chan. The central research objec-tive is to identify the principal interpretive frames through which far-right actors construct, legitimise, and disseminate ecofascist narratives, and to explore how these narratives are shaped and reinforced in the affectively charged context of anonymous online discourse. The theoretical framework builds on frame analysis, following the typology developed by Pirro and van Kessel (2018), which distinguishes between four core frames: socioeconomic, cultural, sovereignty, and legitimacy. The empirical component comprises a qualitative analysis of 146 posts (textual and visual), gathered between February and May 2024, further supplemented by archival content related to three ecofascist-inspired terrorist attacks. Analytical interpretation is grounded in an adapted version of Lubarda’s (2020) framework of far-right ecologism, comprising six thematic values: naturalism, spirituality and mysticism, organicism and autarky, authority, nostalgia and Manicheanism, and accelerationism. The findings demonstrate that environmental discourse is strategically instrumentalised by far-right actors to advance anti-modernist, anti-immigration, and hierarchical ideologies, rendered through emotionally reso-nant narratives and symbolically charged memes.
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