Political Ecologies of the Far Right Fanning the Flames

About this book

This volume engages with the alarming convergence of far right thinking and the ecological crisis in contemporary society. Growing out of the first international conference on political ecologies of the far right, the volume gathers crucial insights from authorities in the field as well as promising early career researchers. With cases ranging from ethnographical accounts of fossil fuel populist protest, historical analysis of the evangelical support for fossil fuels to interrogations of the settler colonial identities and material conditions defended by far right actors around the world, the book provides scholars, students and activists with ways to understand and counter these developments.

Contents

Introduction / Irma Kinga Allen, Kristoffer Ekberg, Stale Holgersen and Andreas Malm

1. Purity, place and Pakeha nature imaginaries in Aotearoa New Zealand / Amanda Thomas
2. Boko Haram in the capitalocene: Assemblages of Climate Change and Militant Islamism in Nigeria / Shehnoor Khurram
3. Wildfire rumors and denial in the Trump era / Laura Pulido
4. United They Roll? How Canadian fossil capital subsidizes the far-right / Jacob McLean
5. Thunberg, not iceberg: Visual melodrama in German far-right climate change communication / Bernhard Forchtner
6. Delayers and deniers: Centrist fossil ideology meets the far-right in Norway / Stale Holgersen
7. Strategic whiteness: How ethnonationalism is shaping land reform & food security discourse in South Africa / Lisa Santosa
8. Fossil Fuel Authoritarianism: Oil, climate change, and the Christian right in the United States / Robert B. Horwitz
9. Conspiracy theories and anti-environmentalism in Bolsonaro's Brazil / Rodrigo D. E. Campos, Sergio B. Barcelos and Ricardo G. Severo
10. Necromancers and Rebirth: Bodily ideals of masculinity amongst far-right traditionalists in London / Amir Massoumian
11. Climate science vs denial machines: How AI could manufacture scientific authority for far-right disinformation / David Eliot and Rod Bantjes
12. The 'fake' virus and the 'not necessarily fake' climate change: ambiguities of extreme-right anti-intellectualism / Balsa Lubarda

Afterword: Extinguishing the Flames: A Call for Future Research and Action on Far-Right Ecologies / The Zetkin Collective

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Biography

Irma Kinga Allen is an independent scholar. Kristoffer Ekberg is Associated Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology at Lund University. Ståle Holgersen is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at OErebro University. Andreas Malm is an Associate Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University.