Chloe Ahmann

<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter ....

Friends! Our collaborative piece “Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism” is now out (OA) in AA! Featuring Zeynep Oğuz, Mona Bhan, Alexandra Coțofană, @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social
Julia Leser, Yuka Suzuki, and @noahtheriault.bsky.social ✨

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A huge thanks to @labspeceth.bsky.social for her thoughtful editorial guidance along the way as the piece took shape through her care and steady encouragement. Zeynep and I are grateful to our co-authors for the generosity and collective thinking that made this possible.

We think through how environmental crises become mobilized in exclusionary, racialized, and violent ways. We look at moments when nature gets folded into authoritarian projects.

<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter ....

Friends! Our collaborative piece “Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism” is now out (OA) in AA! Featuring Zeynep Oğuz, Mona Bhan, Alexandra Coțofană, @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social
Julia Leser, Yuka Suzuki, and @noahtheriault.bsky.social ✨

tinyurl.com/4tb8vncp

Ooh it’s so nice to know you were there! Virtual participation is weird - hope NOLA was a blast, my FOMO has been off the charts.

Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore by Chloe Ahmann

Vital Relations: How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood into the Future by Jean Dennison

A big shout out to our two Bateson Book Prize 🏆 Honorable Mentions! Congrats to @chloeahmann.bsky.social and Jean Dennison for these phenomenal books from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and @uncpress.bsky.social:

a cute thing happened at #AAA2025! such a fangirl of the bateson books over the years, totally chuffed to be in this company ✨✨✨

Wow that’s so wild and cool to hear! Thank you! It’s available for free tho - open access here: bibliopen.org/9780226833606

Congrats on the win, Lisa - so well deserved! 👏👏👏

a cute thing happened at #AAA2025! such a fangirl of the bateson books over the years, totally chuffed to be in this company ✨✨✨

Blue background, congratulations to Chloe Ahmann, book cover center titled futures after progress, 2025 bateson prize honorable mention

Congratulations to Futures After Progress by Chloe Ahmann on receiving an honorable mention for the 2025 Bateson Prize! Explore a powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore and celebrate this well-deserved recognition by securing your copy here: bit.ly/UCPEXAAA

Sharing our zine here, since we promptly ran out at #AAA2025! It's yours to print, fold, and distribute as much or as little as you like! Very proud of the collective behind this work. #anthrosky

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Sharing our zine here, since we promptly ran out at #AAA2025! It's yours to print, fold, and distribute as much or as little as you like! Very proud of the collective behind this work. #anthrosky

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Teasing our zine here!

There is a specter haunting the globe. Once imagined as a hollow revenant of 20th century catastrophe, fascism again looms large in our political present: as a resurrected governing formation; a glaring threat to minority lifeways; a crisis of liberal norms; an incendiary charge to lob at one's opponents; and, perhaps most often, a question. Questions like the oft-invoked "Is this fascism, yet?" embed a temporality that makes it hard to mobilize, for they posit fascism as that which cannot be named until too late. Historically, conceptually, politically, we hold this position is untenable. Rather, the ghosts of fascism are emergent, tangible, hauntological presences across a spectrum of horizons.

This roundtable therefore gathers scholars who are not content to consign fascism to the extreme, nor to the 20th century. We study fascism that calls itself by many names and charges banal sites of social life: mundane violences that emerge in liberal institutions, structure school curricula, shape relationships with nature, identify as "critical" and "feminist." Turning from book burnings to blockbuster films, dictators to PTAs, and examining sites of racialized and gendered violence across the Global North and South, we consider fascism not as an ideal type but as it haunts the everyday – all with an eye toward grasping fash-ish moods before they advance into full-fledged fascist masses.

Despite a growing sense that fascism is on the rise, boundary work has muddled what could be a clarion call for antifascist research. Popular responses range from naive tolerance to bloody confrontation, and academics appear hamstrung by a similar dissensus. Some frame fascism as an illiberal force; others as an apparition that stupefies the masses into (neo)liberal norms. Some call developing a general theory of fascism the most pressing matter of our time; others hold the concept loses teeth when abstracted. Some lament that fascism "is not who we are" in liberal democracies, while others locate its inception at democracies' frontiers. These debates are hardly frivolous, but while they unfold, fascism unfolds, too. There are questions worth exploring that do not hinge on their belabored resolution. And anthropology, ever curious about the instability of meaning, is precisely the discipline to ask them.

In short: we believe anthropology has rarely been more needed, but also that our field needs work to meet this moment. Recent scholarship has gestured notionally toward the possibilities of an antifascist anthropology, but the time has come for thinking programmatically. Together, we ask what fascism becomes when unhinged from its natal contexts. We map its spectral presence in domains from home to healthcare, economy to education. We inquire how to approach it as an ethnographic object and as the condition of our lives and work. And we consider how to remake anthropology into an antifascist discipline that can fight back not only in theory, but in practice.

Friends attending #AAA2025 - some health stuff is keeping me from all the spooky fun in NOLA but I have to boost this Thursday sesh on “The Specter of Fascism” co-organized with the best comrades. GET THERE! There will be brilliant people, urgent scheming, ZINES. #anthrosky 👻📚✊✨

Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. We ar…

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A book forum on Chloe Ahmann's Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (University of Chicago Press, 2024) Published in History and Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

I haven't shared reviews here lately since it feels a little cringe, but I'm always humbled when folks give Futures an earnest read and take time sharing what they think. So to get to sit with a ✨whole ass forum✨ has me floored! Grateful to all the contributors.

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extremely relatable content 😭😭😭

We Took Cheyfitz’s Class on Gaza. His Suspension Violates Academic Freedom. Nine students who took the course on "Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance" contextualize the dispute that led to the suspension of Professor Eric Cheyfitz. They argue that his treatment by the University am...

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👀 Check out this provocative new collection of brief essays on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” that Chloe Ahmann and Zeynep Oguz co-edited for Society & Space. I contributed a piece on the banality of eco-fascism in the Philippines (and beyond). Thanks, Chloe & Zeynep, for the opportunity!

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in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy.
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out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.

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Last but certainly not least, Alexander Menrisky reflections on the collection as a whole, and on the value of concepts like ecofascism despite all the interpretive disagreements that surround them:

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Then @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social explores how ecofascist politics in India capture the popular imagination through particularly localized conceptions of what makes an enchanted ecology:

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Irus Braverman follows, scrutinizing the figure of the goat as one lens on the “ecofascist dream” that animates the state of Israel:

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Yuka Suzuki's work comes next, on moral outrage promulgated in the name of #CatLivesMatter, showing how the animal becomes an alibi for blasting supremacist ideologies:

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