The “Great Replacement”

Abstract

This chapter explores contemporary ideas of racial conflict and its manifestation in forms of racial domestic terrorism. First, the chapter explores importance of Enoch Powell’s late 1960s polemics against immigration in the United Kingdom. For Powell, the fear that unregulated immigration would be symptomatic of a larger concern of the decline of the West. Nonetheless, Powell’s position regained salience with the contemporary articulation of fears that immigration from the global South will “replace” Western population. Here the work of Renaud Camus is salient. The chapter argues that the idea of a world in which white Western racial hierarchy is dismantled is a world at odds with the imagined social cohesion of the West itself.