The Zetkin Collective is a group of scholars, activists and students working on the political ecology of the far right. It was formed around the human ecology division at Lund University in the summer of 2018. There it organised the first international conference on the Political Ecologies of the Far Right, with some four hundred academics and activists from across the world (co-organised with CEFORCED and Action Group Hedwig). Our first publication White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism is out with Verso Books, with a French adaptation available through La Fabrique, and conversations underway with various publishers for translations into Catalan, Danish, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. The members of the Zetkin Collective bring diverse insight and approaches to understanding the politics of an emergent threat in a warming world. The present constellation of collective members is listed beneath.
If you wish to get in touch with us, please feel free to contact us at zetkin.collective@protonmail.com or find us on Twitter.
Irma Allen
PhD researcher, KTH Environmental Humanities Lab, Sweden
Research interests: far-right environments, ethnographies of far-right populist support, embodied trauma and the visceral, emotional politics of everyday far-right politics, gender/masculinity, fossil fuels (coal) and just energy transition, working-class environmentalism, environmental science denial and conspiracy theories, postcolonial postsocialism in Central and Eastern Europe (Poland), critical political psychology, conspirituality
Anna Bartfai
Bernadette Barth
Lise Benoist
Independent researcher
Research interests: French far right, Green nationalism, Metapolitics, Identitarian ecology, far-right anticapitalism/degrowth
Julia Bittencourt Costa Moreira
Analyst/Project Coordinator, SwIdeas AB, Sweden
Research interests: Indigenous & Minorities Rights; Circular Economy; Brazilian Politics, History and Deforestation in the Amazon; Environmental and Climate Justice
Dounia Boukaouit
BA. Social Psychology/Msc. Human Ecology, Denmark
Contribution to the book: researched the climate politics of the french far right
Research interests: Climate denialism, Eco-anxiety, Social mobilization, Degrowth movement, Human-nature relationship
Clàudia Custodio
Environmental Justice and Social Rights Officer, Observatori DESC, Barcelona
Research interests: climate justice narratives and counternarratives, power of discourse, climate denial and barriers to climate action, geopolitics of energy, energy transition
Philipa Olivia Dige
Ilaria di Meo
George Edwards
Independent researcher
Research interests: UK politics, political economy of fossil fuels, historical and technological perspectives on climate change, critical theory
Ernesto Urrusti Frenk
MSc Human Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
Research interests: history of fascism, connections between liberal thought and far right, ecological Marxism, metabolic rift
Morten Hesselbjerg
Researcher and project manager in a small organisation working with circular economy and the green transition, Denmark
Research interests: Circular economy, climate- and immigration politics, climate denial in Danish politics, Fossil fuel divestment
Ståle Holgersen
Researcher, Department of Social and Economic Geography and Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden
Research interests: ecological and economic crises, climate denialism, class, gender and climate
Alexandra McFadden
MSc Human Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
Research interests: Environmental history, ideology and conspiracy, white supremacy and conceptions of nature, relationships between far-right and neoliberal governance in energy and racism, the effects of fossil fascism on indigenous groups (environmental justice)
Line Skovlund Larsen
Investigative journalist and independent researcher, MSc Political Ecology, Denmark
Research interests: climate- and immigration politics, individual blame / collective responsibility of climate change, deforestation, the Andes and the Amazon
Andreas Malm
Associate professor, Lund University, Sweden
Research interests: histories of fossil fuels and racism and fascism, Adorno, psychoanalysis
Sonja Pietiläinen
Doctoral researcher, Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland
Research interests: critical political geographies of the far-right, space and power, green nationalism, climate change, political ecology, far-right in Finland and Russia
Daria Riven
Climate & Transport Policy Officer, Denmark
Research interests: environmental- and climate justice, deforestation, just transition, fossil fuel resistances
Tatjana Söding
MSc Human Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
Research intersts: International political economy, participatory and deliberative socio-ecological transformations, environmental history and the energy transition, the right to the city and the mobility transition, feminist and queer political ecology
Laudy van den Heuval
Dutch investigative journalist
Research interests: National socialist ecology, Cultural Marxism, conspiracy theories, Dutch far right
Anoushka Eloise Zoob Carter
PhD candidate, University of Sussex, UK
Research interests: rural populism, land and agriculture in far-right ecologism, anti-fascist food movements, agri-labour and migrant solidarity
