Contributors

Irma Kinga Allen is an independent Environmental and Energy Humanities scholar. She is the author of Dirty Coal: Industrial Populism as Purification in Poland's Mining Heartland (Kungliga tekniska högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology), 2021), a doctoral monograph funded by a Horizon 2020 Marie Curie fellowship that explores the emotional draw of far-right populist politics among a mining community in Upper Silesia, Europe's largest hard-coal region, based on a year's ethnographic fieldwork. She was previously a Zetkin Collective member, collaborating on the book White Skin, Black Fuel (Verso, 2021) and co-founding the Political Ecologies of the Far Right conference and network. She currently works as a practitioner on just transition in the UK.

Rod Bantjes is a Professor of Sociology at St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is author of two books and numerous journal articles on social movements and state formation. He is currently applying his research on media archaeology to understanding changing conceptions of space, perception and epistemology.

Sérgio Botton Barcellos is Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, and Lecturer and Coordinator in the Postgraduate Programme, at the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil. He holds a doctorate and MA in Social Sciences from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro in the Postgraduate Programme in Development, Agriculture and Society. Sérgio works with teaching, research and extension projects in the area of Rural and Environmental Sociology with a focus on state, development and public policies; socio-environmental conflicts; rural youth; family and peasant agriculture; sociology of education; and environmental education.

Rodrigo D. E. Campos is a PhD candidate in Politics at the University of York, UK, with a focus on Evangelical base building with police forces in Brazil. He holds an MA in International Relations from the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Programme (São Paulo State University, Campinas State University and Catholic University of São Paulo). His main research interests include religion and violence, security and policing, far-right politics, international political theory, Brazilian politics, and the geopolitics of the Maghreb region. He is also a documentary filmmaker and co-author of the book No Way to Gaza: A Chronicle of Adventure and Fraud under the Egyptian Blockade (Middle East Monitor, 2021).

Kristoffer Ekberg is a historian and Associate Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden. His research focuses on environmental history, and especially business responses and engagement with environmental policy and environmental movements. His most recent publications include the book Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet, with Forchtner, Hultman and Jylhä. He is a member of the Centre for Studies of Climate Change Denialism and the Climate Social Science Network.

David Eliot is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and a 2022 Pierre Elliott Trudeau PhD Scholar. He specializes in the study of Artificial Intelligence systems and their effects on society.

Bernhard Forchtner is Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Media and Communication, University of Leicester, UK, and has previously worked as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, where he conducted a project on far-right discourses on the environment (Far-RightEco, project number 327595). Recent publications include ‘Scepticisms and Beyond? A Comprehensive Portrait of Climate Change Communication by the Far Right in the European Parliament’ (Environmental Politics, 2022 with B. Lubarda) and the edited volumes The Far Right and the Environment (Routledge, 2019) and Visualising Far-Right Environments (Manchester University Press, 2023).

Ricardo Gonçalves Severo holds a Doctorate in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, and an MA in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil. He is Associate Professor of Sociology and Permanent Professor for the Graduate Programme in Education at the Federal University of Rio Grande, Brazil . His main areas of research are sociology of knowledge, sociology of education, political sociology, and sociology of youth.

Ståle Holgersen is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Örebro University, Sweden. He is the author of books including The Rise (and Fall?) of Post-Industrial Malmö (Lund University Press, 2014) and Against the Crisis (Verso, 2024), and has published articles in journals such as Antipode, Capital and Class, Human Geography, Planning Theory and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. He is a member of the Zetkin Collective and the housing-research collective Fundament.

Robert B. Horwitz is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, USA. The focus of his scholarship is democracy, communication and political reform. He is author of The Irony of Regulatory Reform: The Deregulation of American Telecommunications (Oxford University Press, 1989); Communication and Democratic Reform in South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2001); America's Right: Anti-establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party (Polity, 2013), and essays on freedom of expression and reflections on contemporary political discourse. Horwitz was Chair of the systemwide University of California Academic Senate, 2021–2022.

Shehnoor Khurram is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is also currently a Fulbright Scholar, taking up residency at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., USA. Her fields of interest include international and comparative political economy, development studies, critical security studies, and political ecology. She employs historical sociology and qualitative and archival methodologies in her research. Her doctoral dissertation analyses ISIS’ rise to power through the making and unmaking of statehood in Iraq.

Balša Lubarda, PhD, is the Head of Research at the Damar Institute, Montenegro. He was most recently Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is the author of Far-Right Ecologism: Environmental Politics and the Far Right (Routledge, 2024), a book based on his doctoral project at Central European University, Austria (2017–2021). Lubarda was founder and head of the Ideology Research Unit at the Far-Right Analysis Network (previously Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right).

Andreas Malm is Associate Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University. His most recent book, together with Wim Carton, is Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown (London: Verso, 2024).

Amir Massoumian is a PhD student in Anthropology at SOAS University, and a Fellow at the Global Research Network on Parliaments and People, London. His doctoral research focuses on far-right supporters in London. His topics of interest include political exclusion, nostalgia, gender, body politics, and research ethics.

Jacob McLean is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Canada. He studies the political ecology of far-right social movements in Canada. He is also a member of the Zetkin Collective.

Laura Pulido is the Collins Professor in Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon, USA, where she studies Environmental Justice, White Supremacy, Cultural Memory and Latina/o/x Studies. She is the author of six books, including Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest (1996); Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (2006), and A People's Guide to Los Angeles (with Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng) (2012). Her current project, Monumental Denial: U.S. Cultural Memory and White Innocence, examines how the US represents histories of white supremacy and colonization.

Lisa Santosa is a PhD candidate and Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change-Mellon Fellow in Human Geography at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA. Her current research project investigates land reform policy in South Africa and its intersection with ethno-nationalism and the historical legacy of settler colonialism. She also incorporates psychoanalytic, critical race, decolonial and feminist methodologies in her research.

Amanda Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a Pākehā political geographer interested in whiteness, decolonization and environmental democracy, and has recently published a book, Stopping Oil: Climate Justice and Hope (Pluto Press, Melbourne University Press, 2023) with colleagues.

The Zetkin Collective is an eco-socialist group of scholars and activists working primarily on the political ecologies of the far right. In addition to Ståle Holgersen and Jacob McLean (see above), members contributing to the afterword of this volume are: William Callison, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Human Geography at Uppsala University. William's research focuses on the history of neoliberalism, far-right movements and climate denialism. George Edwards, PhD candidate at the University of Warwick. George's research considers the role of nationalism in the climate crisis. Alexandra McFadden, a researcher and science editor based in Stockholm. Alexandra studies the environmental politics of the far right and conservation ecology and conflicts.