Rupture: Introduction

Most discussions treat radicalisation as ending once belief has taken hold. In this movement, we begin from the opposite view. We show that radicalisation continues to live through relationships long after conviction, reshaping how families speak, care, and live together. Rupture examines what happens once belief has entrenched itself in the private sphere. Through SNC accounts, we trace how QAnon reorganised communication and emotion within homes, and how the ordinary bonds that once sustained belonging began to strain and sometimes break. What follows in this movement is told through the words of those living inside that strain. The SNCs do not describe rupture from a distance; they inhabit it. They are narrating how communication falters and how care can become duty, revealing how rupture is not an abstract aftermath but a daily negotiation.