White Supremacy and the Green Rhetoric of Ecofascism
On ep109 journalist Anna Bianca Roach sits down with University of Toronto research and policy analyst Abtin Parnia to explore how the extreme Right's anti-immigration ideology and population control rhetoric co-opts Green politics and the struggle for a sustainable and ecological future.
This conversation was recorded on December 2nd, 2019.
Articles cited on this episode include:
Betsy Hartmann, \u201cPopulation Control I: Birth of an Ideology,\u201d and \u201cPopulationControl II:The Population Establishment Today,\u201d International Journal of Health Services,1997, 27(3): 523-557
Nicholas Kulish and Mike McIntire, \u201cWhy an Heiress Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out\u201d. NY Times (August 14, 2019). https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/anti-immigration-cordelia-scaife-may.html?action=click&module=Intentional&pgtype=Article
Natasha Lennard. \u201cThe El Paso Shooter Embraced Eco-Fascism. We Can\u2019t Let the Far Right Co-Opt the Environmental Struggle\u201d. The intercept (August 5, 2019). https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-eco-fascism-migration/
Courtney Parker. \u201cAn act of genocide: canada\u2019s coerced sterilization of first nations women\u201d. Intercontinental cry (November 15, 2019) https://intercontinentalcry.org/canadas-coerced-sterilization-of-first-nations-women/
Sarah Manavis. \u201cEco-fascism: The ideology marrying environmentalism and white supremacy thriving online\u201d. New Stateman (September 21, 2018) https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2018/09/eco-fascism-ideology-marrying-environmentalism-and-white-supremacy
Normandin, Sebastian, and Sean A. Valles. "How a network of conservationists and population control activists created the contemporary US anti-immigration movement." Endeavour 39.2 (2015): 95-105.
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