The Zetkin Collective
@zetkincollective.bsky.social
The Zetkin Collective is a group of scholars and activists working primarily on the political ecologies of the far right.
More book news 📚 Our forthcoming book will be featured in the August edition of the @versobooks.bsky.social Book Club! If you sign up for the book club by July 16th, you'll get a 30% discount on your membership! Get in there 🧃 www.versobooks.com/pages/verso-...
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The Zetkin Collective@zetkincollective.bsky.social · 3w agoMore book news 📚 Our forthcoming book will be featured in the August edition of the @versobooks.bsky.social Book Club! If you sign up for the book club by July 16th, you'll get a 30% discount on your membership! Get in there 🧃 www.versobooks.com/pages/verso-...
More book news 📚 Our forthcoming book will be featured in the August edition of the @versobooks.bsky.social Book Club! If you sign up for the book club by July 16th, you'll get a 30% discount on your membership! Get in there 🧃 www.versobooks.com/pages/verso-...
Can't wait!
The Zetkin Collective@zetkincollective.bsky.social · 4w agoWe're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340...
Kaube "übersieht, dass die Pflichten des Staates und die der Zivilgesellschaft nicht die gleichen sind: dass der Staat eine nicht verbotene Partei rechtsstaatlich behandeln muss, heißt nicht, dass auch die Bürger ihr diese politische Normalität schulden" @ralfmichaels.bsky.social & Anne Gräfe.
Great work on planning from @christophsorg.bsky.social @futurehistories.bsky.social @waltherzeug.bsky.social @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social and more get shout-outs (and will be discussed in greater detail in the German print edition)! Order here: www.oekom.de/buch/die-hal...
Die halbe Erde | oekom verlag
Die Welt brennt - und die alten Antworten reichen nicht mehr. In einer Zeit, in der demokratische Institutionen weltweit unter Druck geraten und die
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Heute hat Clara Zetkin Geburtstag. Die Mitbegründerin der proletarischen Frauenbewegung wurde 1857 im sächsischen Wiederau geboren. #AnDiesemTag 🧵
Unser neues Buch kommt genau in einem Monat raus und man kann es jetzt schon vorbestellen🫰
The Zetkin Collective@zetkincollective.bsky.social · 4w agoWe're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340...
In a @versobooks.bsky.social blog post, @drewpendergrass.bsky.social and Troy Vettese, who co-authored the book Half-Earth Socialism, talk to @zetkincollective.bsky.social researcher @tatjanasoeding.bsky.social about the climate movement and scientific utopianism. www.indep.network/verso-blog-p...
Verso Blog Post Discusses the Climate Movement, Utopianism and Half-Earth Socialism
In a blog post for Verso, Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, who co-authored the book Half-Earth Socialism, talk to Zetkin Collective researcher Tatjana Söding about the development and repression of…
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We're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340...
We're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340...
Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars
Stealing Cars: Property, Automobility, and the Colonial Crisis of Car Culture
Long Ride | Historian John Munro delves into the past in order to understand how the primacy of private property shapes mobility hierarchies in the present
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@zetkincollective.bsky.social: "Every time a European far-right party denies or downplays climate change, it makes a statement about immigration."
Bradford District Green Party@bradfordgreens.bsky.social · last mo.Farage & Co. received £24m from donors with fossil fuel interests 💰 Why are Reform so vehemently against climate action? It's a complete mystery...🤔 Join.greenparty.org.uk
This book by @zetkincollective.bsky.social will be the one to read on the topic when it comes out with @versobooks.bsky.social in August.
The Great Driving Right Show
Apocalypse is in the air. And the far right knows it. Since the pandemic, it has successfully cultivated crises, conspiracy theories, and coalitions to fight a green energy transition. Mobilising onli...
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Mattei fu partigiano e antifascista, il piano Mattei del governo Meloni è fascismo fossile a la @zetkincollective.bsky.social www.lastampa.it/politica/202...
Gli eredi Mattei a Palazzo Chigi: “Via il nostro nome dal piano Africa”
Pec del nipote alla premier: «Non usi il cognome per il Piano, lei distante dalle scelte di mio zio»
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Gennaro Carotenuto@gennarocarotenuto.bsky.social · 4mo agoAlla vigilia del #25aprile, la famiglia del partigiano Enrico Mattei diffida ufficialmente il governo Meloni a usare il nome del nonno antifascista. E ora? Ipotesi... "piano Italo Balbo"? "piano Rodolfo Graziani"? "Piano faccetta nera"?
Sparked by Richard Tice's plans for fracking as 'our patriotic duty', I wrote something with George Edwards of @zetkincollective.bsky.social about the appeal of Reform's fossil nationalism for @the-breakdown.bsky.social
John Merrick@johnmerrick.bsky.social · 4mo agoA brilliant essay by Rebekah Diski and George Edwards on Reform's fossil nationalism and how its power is fed by the very real contradictions of Britain's green energy transition. www.break-down.org/return-to-tr...
My attempt to draw a Venn diagram for Palestine solidarity & mobility justice activism. @hannahkateboast.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social, @geoffmann.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social, @norton.bsky.social, @mykaabramson.bsky.social, @zetkincollective.bsky.social all influences here.
John Munro@johnmunro.bsky.social · 10mo agoI wrote something about #StopDeKindermoord
Our conversation with @mykaabramson.bsky.social about her terrific new book, Cartographies of Empire. With @nedra-abada.bsky.social, Kafui Attoh (@cunyslu.bsky.social), George Edwards (@zetkincollective.bsky.social), & @lclaberge.bsky.social. Hosted by me and @yosra999.bsky.social.
New Routes in Transnational American Studies #3 - Cartographies of Empire
YouTube video by John Munro - University of Birmingham
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Liberals at the wheel of *the great driving right show*
Piel blanca, combustible negro @zetkincollective.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo agoTrump to the UN: "I have to say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor -- terrible terrible mayor -- and it's been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia Law ... both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe."
Join us (George Edwards) on Thursday!
John Munro@johnmunro.bsky.social · 12mo agoOn 25 September, join me and @yosra999.bsky.social for a conversation with author Myka Tucker-Abramson about her new book: Cartographies of Empire With @nedra-abada.bsky.social, Kafui Attoh (@cunyslu.bsky.social), George Edwards (@zetkincollective.bsky.social), & @lclaberge.bsky.social.
On 25 September, join me and @yosra999.bsky.social for a conversation with author Myka Tucker-Abramson about her new book: Cartographies of Empire With @nedra-abada.bsky.social, Kafui Attoh (@cunyslu.bsky.social), George Edwards (@zetkincollective.bsky.social), & @lclaberge.bsky.social.
Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel & American Hegemony
A "New Routes in Transnational American Studies" Readers-Meet-Author Conversation
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Trump is just saying *exactly* the stuff Malm & @zetkincollective.bsky.social examine in White Skin, Black Fuel! @versobooks.bsky.social
ISSUE #2 OUT NOW! Featuring: @triofrancos.bsky.social, @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social, @brosef-stalin.bsky.social, @jacobbolton.bsky.social + more! Read now and subscribe at www.break-down.org
#UKCarCulture prepares the ground for the impunity of these displays of xenophobic nationalism, in terms of how so many laws are optional for car owners, and, as @zetkincollective.bsky.social has brilliantly articulated, in terms of automobility's affinity with fascism.
The Great Driving Right Show by the Zetkin Collective
Symbolically, affectively, and materially, the car is a ‘vehicle’ for the far right, channelling apolitical investments in the status quo into reactionary forms of anti-ecological politics. In this co...
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East Anglia Bylines@eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11mo agoFlags on lampposts. Red marks on roads. Balaclavas outside hotels. This isn't patriotism, writes Prof Richard Murphy. It's intimidation. Why aren’t the laws applied?
@zetkincollective.bsky.social en 'Piel blanca, combustible negro. Los peligros del fascismo fósil', de Andreas Malm & Zetkin Collective. capitanswing.com/libros/piel-...
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The Great Driving Right Show by the Zetkin Collective
Symbolically, affectively, and materially, the car is a ‘vehicle’ for the far right, channelling apolitical investments in the status quo into reactionary forms of anti-ecological politics. In this co...
salvage.zone
A quien le interese esto, una buena lectura para el domingo sobre el coche de combustión interna como símbolo y pilar del fascismo contemporáneo. De @zetkincollective.bsky.social en @corrientecalida.com.
El gran espectáculo del volantazo a la derecha - Corriente Cálida
EA nivel simbólico, afectivo y material, el coche le sirve a la extrema derecha como «vehículo» para conducir la participación apolítica en el statu quo hacia formas reaccionarias de política antiecol...
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José Luis Rodríguez@jlrodriguez.eurosky.social · last yr.Con el motor de combustión ocurrirá como con el tabaco en espacios cerrados: cuando desaparezca, no vamos a comprender cómo pudimos tolerarlo tanto tiempo.
then we must conclude that much of the political spectrum, insofar as they remain committed to fossil fuels, is pushing towards this far-right horizon.» Afterword, in Political Ecologies of the far right, by @zetkincollective.bsky.social www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
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Würde als Treiber/Verstärker der faschistischen Energie/Dynamik noch die strukturelle Zuspitzung des Widerspruchs von Kapitalakkumulation und Ökologie im Anschluss an @zetkincollective.bsky.social o. @ulrichbrand.bsky.social / Markus Wissen mit aufnehmen. (Vgl. www.oekom.de/buch/kapital...)
Kapitalismus am Limit | oekom verlag
»Ein brillant geschriebenes, von großem empirischen und konzeptuellen Wissen genährtes Zeitdokument!«Jean Ziegler»Ich habe mich auf der Stelle festgelesen.
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