@lubardab.bsky.social
MSCA postdoc @upf.edu. Formerly at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social & @weareceu.bsky.social. Odd bedfellows in politics, environment, everyday fascism. Author of Far-Right Ecologism. Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZQ2VTfIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=
A few days ago, I was quoted by Radio Free Europe on the international links of the Serbian extreme right. The piece is in Serbian but my key point was that those who have been endorsing the same commemorative event organized from the extreme right for years are now running the state.
03.03.2026 12:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0'realism'
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🌱 ¿Cómo se apropian los actores radicales del discurso ambiental? Te invitamos a escuchar la participación de @lubardab.bsky.social, investigador posdoctoral MSCA en el JHU–UPF Public Policy Center, en el podcast organizado por @revdem2020.bsky.social. ¡No te lo pierdas!
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🌱 How do radical actors appropriate environmental discourse?
We invite you to listen to @lubardab.bsky.social, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the JHU–UPF Public Policy Center, in a podcast organised by @revdem2020.bsky.social.
Don’t miss it!
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Check out this great article by @ashifakassam.bsky.social, featuring yours truly and the fab @gretajasser.bsky.social!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
A nice way to end the year and reduce my inner, tidiness-induced noise
27.12.2025 07:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Highly recommend as one of the past participants!
17.12.2025 17:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The deadline is extended, so we look forward to receiving your abstracts by Friday, 26 December!
17.12.2025 11:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hearty congrats! Looking forward to reading it!
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In what is likely my sign-off for the year, I wrote for the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation, a part of the @ec.europa.eu, on whether far-right ecologism is being mainstreamed.
Link in comment👇🏻
Imogen Richards and I are looking for panelists for our panel on far-right environmentalism during the 2026 @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference, 8-11 September 2026 (Krakow). Send title & abstract to balsa.lubarda@upf.edu and imogen.richards@deakin.edu.au by 17 December 2025.
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📼The recording of the last week's Deep Dive webinar by Future Earth Pathways Initiative is now out!
Happy to have discussed the relevance of far-right ecologisms in today's times and many thanks to Noémi Gonda and Viola Baldeschi for the invitation.
www.youtube.com/watch?si=rHU...
📣 Presenting the speakers of the next #PolicyDialogues: "How should health policy adapt in the climate crisis?"
🗣️ With @drsoniaangell.bsky.social, @lvivas8.bsky.social and Enrique Castro
🗓️ 25/11 · 11:30 CEST
📍 Online (registration necessary)
👉🔗 tinyurl.com/yvv77s3y
But this is for 2024 right? In our forthcoming piece (exploring both the voting and the explanations since 2009), we found that the EPP was still very far from the ECR/PfE/other far-right groups. It was the ECR that has gotten closer to the other far-right EPGs and away from the EPP, variations incl
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A gentle reminder that our 1st launch of Socioecological Transformations book is today, 20 Nov, 14:00–15:35 EET.
If you’re planning to join, please add it to your calendar, as there is no registration & so no automatic reminders.
🔗 Event link: justglobeproject.com/launching-th...
The recording of last Friday's panel on 'Far-right ecologies', organised by @futureearth.bsky.social is now out (see comment)!
I was happy to share the 'floor' with Viola Baldeschi, Noemi Gonda, Shehnoor Khurram and Bernhard Forchtner.
Check Out The Latest Podcast from @revdem2020.bsky.social Which Features Myself and the Wonderful @lubardab.bsky.social Talking About Our Work On When the Far Right and the Far Left Converge and When Environmentalism Becomes a Battleground of Competing Ideologies 👇👇
revdem.ceu.edu/2025/11/07/r...
🎙️ In our new podcast, @ashkingdon.bsky.social and @lubardab.bsky.social discuss how both the far-right and the far-left mobilize ecological ideas, often drawing from the same language of resistance.
🎧 Listen to it now:
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I Have Always Admired @lubardab.bsky.social
and His Work So It Was Such a Pleasure and Joy To Work Him Him on This Project 😍😍Here We Are Talking About Our Upcoming Article Co-Optation Without Ownership: The Idea of Resistance in Multimodal Radical Right and Left Ecological Argumentation 👇👇
Thank you for the kindest words Ashton, indeed it is a pleasure to work with you on this (and hope to see it out soon!)
08.11.2025 12:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One more 'reply all' email to circa 70 people thanking everyone for their contribution and I will intentionally forget my password.
23.10.2025 10:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I had no clue that working on a website can be so painful - so many details that my eye can simply not catch
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Not much to be added really ("UPF is with Palestine").
13.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looks great, congrats!
08.10.2025 04:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can't say I did not expect this from Cal or any other higher ed institution but these remidners of authoritarian, colonial (even genocidal) and extractive institutions do hurt.
15.09.2025 13:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1.Ursula, you have ZERO credibility
2.This unanimity requirement institutionalises a grotesque "lowest common denominator logic" that transforms European foreign policy into a theater play while definitions are discussed to avoid the terms 'famine' and 'genocide'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
I was happy to meet Srđan Cvijić and disciss the prospects of radical and not-so-radical green politics in the Balkans. 👇🏻
09.09.2025 07:56 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Not the first and obviously not the last time @theguardian.com is allowing dictators in its 'marketplace of ideas'. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
31.08.2025 12:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not “Is this a good option - do we want a Trumpian immigration security state?” but “Would it work?”…
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