​The Zetkin Collective is an ecosocialist group of scholars and activists working primarily on the political ecologies of the far right.

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Originally formed around the Human Ecology division at Lund University in the summer of 2018, the Zetkin Collective is now internationally based. ​

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Thinking, discussing and writing together, we analyse the ascendence of the far right in times of climate collapse. You can find our latest collective work here.

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In our latest book, The Great Driving Right Show, we offer a conjunctural analysis on how the far right rises through climate conspiracism and pro-car politicswe. In it, we trace  the evolution of the far-right’s rise attack on decarbonisation politics and show how, as the climate crisis worsens, the political right constructs an ‘inverted crisis’ in which climate action – not climate change – represents the gravest existential threat. Rising through this shared strategy are movements and parties from anti-road-pricing saboteurs, ‘freedom’ convoys and farmers’ protests, to the Trump-led opposition to electric vehicles. Powering such actors are not only fossil-fuel and automobile interests, but an ever-expanding cycle of moral panics about climate and racial justice protesters, trans people, and migrants. 

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The book will be out with Verso on August, 11th and can be preordered here. 

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We are happy to be in touch! Reach out to us via email at thezetkincollective@gmail.com.

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