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Noah Theriault @noahtheriault.bsky.social · 3d

👀 Check out this provocative new collection of brief essays on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” that Chloe Ahmann and Zeynep Oguz co-edited for Society & Space. I contributed a piece on the banality of eco-fascism in the Philippines (and beyond). Thanks, Chloe & Zeynep, for the opportunity!

Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...

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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 2d

in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy.
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 2d

out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.

Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

Last but certainly not least, Alexander Menrisky reflections on the collection as a whole, and on the value of concepts like ecofascism despite all the interpretive disagreements that surround them:

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

Then @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social explores how ecofascist politics in India capture the popular imagination through particularly localized conceptions of what makes an enchanted ecology:

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

Irus Braverman follows, scrutinizing the figure of the goat as one lens on the “ecofascist dream” that animates the state of Israel:

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

Yuka Suzuki's work comes next, on moral outrage promulgated in the name of #CatLivesMatter, showing how the animal becomes an alibi for blasting supremacist ideologies:

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

Julia Leser then takes on the racialized fantasies of violence that animate “wolf politics” among Germany's far right:

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

Up next, an essay by Zeynep Oguz explores how wildfires ignite nationalist paranoia in contemporary Turkey:

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

Then in a lil piece by Devin Proctor and me called “The Storm before the Storm,” we think about the incursion of far-right groups into post-disaster zones as a kind of disaster nationalism that seeks to undermine the US state:

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

Work by Alexandra Cotofana follows, on the ecofascist atmospheres that congeal around cloud seeding efforts in the UAE:

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Troubled waters and no bridges: The ecofascisms of an imagined global middle class - Alexandra Cotofana, 2025

The article traces ecofascism in social-media commentary following a storm that affected the United Arab Emirates in April of 2024. This ecofascism is imagined ...

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

Next up, @noahtheriault.bsky.social interrogates the resonances between ecofascism and late capitalism's daily churn, as both shape ecotourism projects in the Philippines:

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

Then, @kaibosworth.bsky.social takes on the green masculinity embodied by the “decarbonization bro”:

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

First up, we've got Mona Bhan writing on the fascistic undercurrents of India's “green transition” as it shapes extractive politics in Kashmir:

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

...normalizing the sense that some lives are environmental goods while other lives pose existential threats.” And we seek out “everyday and emergent forms of antifascist care for each other and the planet that we share.” Hope you'll give it a read. Here are the 🔥 contributions:

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 4d

📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...

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Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social · 25d

Read @chloeahmann.bsky.social & Zeynep Oguz’s intro to a collection on ecofascism: “We must tend to the mundane ways” ecofascism “organizes the everyday, normalizing the commonsense that some lives are environmental goods while others pose existential threats”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Collection introduction: Everyday and emergent ecofascisms - Chloe Ahmann, Zeynep Oguz, 2025

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Jul 26

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy.

This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading:

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I pledge that I will not provide any service to Columbia University. I will not speak at conferences held at or organized by Columbia. I will not publish with Columbia publications or provide peer reviews for them. I will not provide outside tenure evaluations for Columbia departments. I will not contribute in any way to the institution until everyone who is responsible for this week’s shameful decision has resigned, retired, or been fired, and until Columbia repudiates their catastrophic choice.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jul 26

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · Jul 26

Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 25

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).

This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Jul 11

There is no city, state or federal district where it is legal to terrorize and detain people for being brown and working in agriculture. These raids must stop immediately. 8/

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · Jun 22

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

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Rehman Siddiq @rehmansiddiq.com · Jun 22

No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · Jun 22

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · May 7

Ahem, may I interrupt all the unraveling to share a lil news

Email from the Anthropology Department Chair reads:

Dear Chloe,

I am delighted to share that I have just been informed that the provost has approved your tenure case. The final step is the board of trustees, but that is just a formality. So you can count on being an Associate Professor with indefinite tenure as of July 1.

Congratulations, and good work!!

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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · May 7

Ahem, may I interrupt all the unraveling to share a lil news

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