Balša Lubarda, together with co-author Péter J. Bori, has contributed a new chapter to The Edward Elgar Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, edited by Amanda Machin and Marcel Wissenburg. The volume brings together leading voices in the field—including Erik Swyngedouw, Avner de-Shalit, and Jens Marquardt—offering a comprehensive overview of contemporary environmental political theory. From classical perspectives to marginalised and emerging approaches, the Handbook underscores the central role of political theory in rethinking ecological strategies, discourses and imaginaries in the age of the Anthropocene.

In their chapter, Lubarda and Bori, critically examine the concept of 'far-right ecologism' and its entanglement with violence—often assumed to be limited to the most extreme, terrorist manifestations, such as those seen in Christchurch and El Paso. The chapter also challenges previous (unintended) interpretations on far-right ecologism that dismiss ecofascism as largely irrelevant to understanding the contemporary far-right environmental agenda. While that agenda appears technocratic and ostensibly eco-modernist, it remains deeply violent in multiple ways. The chapter explores how seeping authoritarianism, including repression of climate and environmental activists worldwide and extractivist practices that undermine democratic debate and decision-making, lends to ecofascism in a way that is not necessarily 'far-right ecologism'.

Link: https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781802208955/chapter21.xml?tab_body=abstract-copy1