CAS SEE Seminars with Guests: Balša Lubarda
On Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 12:00 pm (CET), we are hosting the CAS SEE Seminar with Balša Lubarda on Exclusionary environmentalisms – Coping with the microfascist predicament? in conversation with the RECAS Fellow Slađana Kavarić Mandić.
About the seminar
Environmentalism is often celebrated as a politics of equity and justice. Yet in times of crisis in which many lay claims to the mantle of environmentalism, its emancipatory veneer may be overshadowed by a spectrum of exclusionary tendencies. This seminar explores the concept of exclusionary environmentalism, asking: what – and who – is left out of green imaginaries, and to what end? From blame attribution and scapegoating to the tacit and quotidian performances of silencing, the seminar looks at how how affective and ideological boundaries are recreating a fascist logic in the name of ecological urgency, purity, or salvation.
Balša Lubarda is an environmental sociologist focusing on the different ideological responses to climate change and the energy transition. He is the author of the book “Far-Right Ecologism: Environmental Politics and the Far Right in Hungary and Poland“ (Routledge, 2024) and a co-editor of the volume “Global Far-Right Ecologies: Trends, Issues and Challenges” (Routledge, forthcoming). He was previously the Head of Research at Damar Institute (Montenegro, 2023-2024), the Head of Ideology Research Unit at the Far-Right Analysis Network (formerly Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, 2020-2023) and the Visiting Lecturer (Fulbright) at the University of California, Berkeley (United States).
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