April Anson is an Assistant Professor of Public Humanities at San Diego State University, core faculty for the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs, and affiliate faculty in American Indian Studies. Her research explores the historical and ongoing connections between climate change and white supremacy, as well as the Indigenous environmental justice traditions that eclipse those relations. Professor Anson is the co-founder of the Anti-Creep Climate Initiative and co-author of “Against the Ecofascist Creep,” and she was a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has appeared in boundary 2, Resilience, Environmental History, Western American Literature, and other journals.
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Event Overview
Self-described “ecofascists” recently perpetrated mass murders in Buffalo, New York; El Paso, Texas; and Christchurch, New Zealand — why?
Join us for the next installment of this webcast series as we investigate the term "ecofascism" and its long tradition of using environmental concern to justify racialized violence. We will trace the origin of ecofascism from before the Green Nazis to a distinctly American white narrative that not only predates climate science but continues to define whiteness as the total horizon of possibility across the political spectrum. This tradition transforms the systems causing climate chaos into an inevitable, self-fulfilling prophecy that ultimately aims to suffocate us all.
Hosted by the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences, the series is moderated by Chloe Ahmann, Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Join us for the next installment of this webcast series as we investigate the term "ecofascism" and its long tradition of using environmental concern to justify racialized violence. We will trace the origin of ecofascism from before the Green Nazis to a distinctly American white narrative that not only predates climate science but continues to define whiteness as the total horizon of possibility across the political spectrum. This tradition transforms the systems causing climate chaos into an inevitable, self-fulfilling prophecy that ultimately aims to suffocate us all.
Hosted by the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences, the series is moderated by Chloe Ahmann, Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
What You'll Learn
- Ecofascism as an American literary tradition
- An expanded genealogy of ecofascism through the American 19th century
- Anti-ecofascism by 19th-century Indigenous writers as models for climate justice
Speakers
Assistant Professor of Public Humanities, core faculty for the Institute for Ethics and Public Policy, and affiliate faculty in American Indian Studies, San Diego State University
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and affiliate faculty in American Studies, Cornell University
Chloe Ahmann is an environmental anthropologist at Cornell studying the long afterlife of American industry. Professor Ahmann’s forthcoming book, “Futures After Progress,” is based in Baltimore, where she follows industrialism’s enduring traces in toxified landscapes, patchy regulation, quotidian expressions of white supremacy, and particular orientations toward time. She is especially interested in the kinds of environmental futures that take form amid these legacies. This interest carries into Professor Ahmann’s newer work on ecofascism in the Pacific Northwest, where she considers the dark utopic visions that sustain far-right environmental groups.
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