Climate Satire and Anti-science Populism in Don’t Look Up
This commentary reviews the 2021 film Don’t Look Up, an allegory about climate-crisis apathy in an imagined populist future in...
Eating and Environmental Consciousness
The effects of global warming are no longer part of an abstract, future dystopia or a hard-to-comprehend “hyperobject.” Summer 2021,...
Grief, Rage, and Courage at COP26
At the end of the conference, the 1.5-degree goal still appears far out of reach. “Beyond that threshold,” scientific consensus...
“Ruin Porn,” the Populist Apocalypse, and Art as Antidote
This commentary considers several populist frameworks for apocalyptic thinking in Europe and the US, in historical and environmental perspective, with...
Witnessing Beyond the Human*
DOWNLOAD PDF The “poetry of witness” tradition ranges from Brecht’s Nazi-era ballads, Paul Celan’s broken German folk rhythms, and Muriel...
Snowflake Resistance: Protecting the Paris Agreement Against Populism
With a concentrated focus on climate activism and the Paris Agreement, this commentary will explore the juxtaposed trajectories of populism...
Prof. Michael M. Bell: We have to understand knowledge as a social relation to understand authoritarian environmental populism
Talking about environmental populism and authoritarianism Professor Michael Mayerfeld Bell, who is also an author and a composer, explains the...
Whose Anthropocene? Climate Grief and Climate Justice
This commentary considers problems of privilege in climate anxiety and grief, asking which humans have left the deepest marks in...
Shoshone Nation leader Darren Parry: All decisions should be based on the ‘seventh generation’ principle
Darren Parry, the Vice-Chairman of the Northwestern Shoshone Nation, a Utah tribe with headquarters in Brigham City, calls for US...
Everybody Wants to Be ‘Origines’: Nativism, Neo-pagan Appropriation, and Ecofascism*
DOWNLOAD PDF This paper explores the tensions that emerge in neo-pagan media and practices, when they appeal not only to...
Access or Protection? Contested Lands in the American West
“Work and wilderness: surely, these two glare at each other across an intellectual clear-cut.” Daegan Miller, This Radical Land By Heidi...
Greta Thunberg: Climate Populism As Productive Double?
This commentary considers aspects of populism that Greta Thunberg’s climate movement exposes and transforms. Dr. Hart also considers Thunberg’s “spectrum...