Rupture: Conclusion

Rupture has traced what happens when radicalisation enters the private sphere and begins to live through relationships. Across the three chapters, we have seen that QAnon’s effects are not limited to belief or identity but are lived and felt in the daily work of family life. Radicalisation reshapes communication, redistributes emotional labour, and in some cases even turns intimacy into fear. The consequences we observed were uneven yet often interconnected, showing that the same relational forces that made radicalisation possible also determine how it is endured. It is also crucial to remember that the experiences gathered in this movement belong to people who were not only witnesses to belief but also architects of endurance.