This book offers a unique perspective on one of today’s most disturbing convergences, the rise of the far right and the ongoing ecological crisis. Through case studies from around the world, the book interrogates the multifaceted ways these two trends intersect.

Introduction – Irma Kinga Allen, Kristoffer Ekberg, Ståle Holgersen and Andreas Malm 1. Purity, place and Pakeha nature imaginaries in Aotearoa New Zealand –Amanda Thomas2. Boko Haram in the Capitalocene: assemblages of climate change and militant Islamism in Nigeria – Shehnoor Khurram3. Wildfire rumours and denial in the Trump era – Laura Pulido4. United they roll? How Canadian fossil capital subsidizes the far right – Jacob McLean 5. Thunberg, not iceberg: visual melodrama in German far-right climate change communication – Bernhard Forchtner 6. Delayers and deniers: centrist fossil ideology meets the far-right in Norway – Ståle Holgersen7. Strategic whiteness: How ethno-nationalism is shaping land reform and food security discourse in South Africa – Lisa Santosa 8. Fossil fuel authoritarianism: oil, climate change, and the Christian right in the United States – Robert B. Horwitz9. Conspiracy theories and anti-environmentalism in Bolsonaro’s Brazil – Rodrigo D. E. Campos, Sérgio B. Barcelos and Ricardo G. Severo10. Necromancers and rebirth: bodily ideals of masculinity amongst far-right traditionalists in London – Amir Massoumian 11. Climate science vs denial machines: how AI could manufacture scientific authority for far-right disinformation – David Eliot and Rod Bantjes12. The ‘fake’ virus and the ‘not necessarily fake’ climate change: ambiguities of extreme-right anti-intellectualism – Balsa LubardaAfterword: extinguishing the flames: a call for future research and action on far-right ecologies – The Zetkin Collective

Political ecologies of the far right engages with the alarming convergence of far right thinking and the ecological crisis in contemporary society.By looking at the far right as a multifaceted expression of authoritarian and exclusionary politics, the book offers a unique insight into the world of far right ecology. It provides a valuable perspective on the changing nature of far right thought, including studies of the bodily practices of London ‘traditionalists’, ecofascist terror in New Zealand, and the ecological crisis fuelling the power of Boko Haram in the Lake Chad area.With its global scope, Political ecologies of the far right urges us to rethink what the far right is and to interrogate the cross-influence between the far right and mainstream right-wing politics in the field of environmental and ecological thought. It describes the connections between colonial imaginations and contemporary far right anti-environmentalism. The volume also interrogates the relevance and occurrence of science denial among far right actors and how such denial informs their politics of environment. Political ecologies of the far right significantly contributes to understanding of this troublesome phenomena, and provides scholars, students and activists with ways to understand and counter the rise of far right anti-environmentalism and ecofascism today.