TY - BOOK AU - Ebner,Julia TI - Going dark: the secret social lives of extremists SN - 9781526616791 (pbk.) : AV - HN49.R33 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Publishing KW - Ebner, Julia. KW - Radicalism KW - Religious aspects KW - Extremists KW - Society N1 - Originally published: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but two years ago, she began to feel that she was only seeing half the picture. She needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. So she decided to go undercover in her spare hours - late nights, holidays, weekends - adopting five different identities, and joining a dozen extremist groups from across the ideological spectrum. Her journey would take her from a Generation Identity global strategy meeting in a pub in Mayfair, to a Neo-Nazi Music Festival on the border of Germany and Poland. Here, Ebner takes the reader on a deeply compulsive, terrifying, illuminating journey into the darkest recesses of extremist thinking, exposing how closely we are surrounded by their fanatical ideology every day, the changing nature and practice of these groups ER -