Ecofascism & Fossil Fascism w/ April Anson and William Callison

Drs. April Anson and William Callison describe the allure of far right environmentalism, the embeddedness of fossil fascism in our daily lives, and the ecocidal futures of colonialism and ultranationalism.

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Anson, April and Anindita Bannerjee. “Green Walls: Everyday Ecofascism and the Politics of Proximity.” boundary 2, vol. 50, no. 1, 2023, pp. 137–164.

Callison, William and Verónica Gago. “The Far-Right International Versus Anti-fascist Internationalism.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol 124., no. 4, 2025, pp. 858–68.

Callison, William and Tatjana Söding. “Postwachstum von rechts und die Gefahr des Ökofaschismus.” Ökologisches Wirtschaften, Ausgabe 01, 2023. https://www.oekologisches-wirtschaften.de/index.php/oew/article/view/1953.

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Ghodsee, Kristin R. Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life. Simon & Schuster, 2023.

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Menrisky, Alexander. Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature. U of Minnesota P, 2025.

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