Description: "Everyday Ecofascism powerfully nails down the emergent concept of ecofascism and forms a basis for understanding phenomena like Covid-19, ecological utopianism, and psychedelic environmentalism. Presenting a view of fascism as a complex power network that plays out on scales both large and small, Alexander Menrisky demonstrates that ecofascism is best understood not as a uniquely right-wing ideology but as a political genre that reinforces white supremacy and other forms of domination"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Everyday Ecofascism boldly exposes the numerous, yet insidiously subtle, narratives in contemporary culture that foster ecofascist ideologies. But perhaps more importantly, Alexander Menrisky also showcases powerful counternarratives that can shape more just futures. This is bracing, timely, and vital work."--Nicole Seymour, author of Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age
"Alexander Menrisky's vital and moving book attunes readers to the widely used and yet highly contested term ecofascism. He offers an original perspective on the convergence of environmental crisis and political violence, illuminating the quotidian roles of storytelling and genre in these processes."--Teresa Shewry, author of Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature
"Required reading for scholars invested in environmental ethics and the changing landscape of climate discourses."--Twentieth-Century Literature
"The term 'ecofascism' has been adopted by white supremacists and their critics. Menrisky interrogates its meanings brilliantly in this learned book... A solid and timely contribution to knowledge." --CHOICE