Balša Lubarda

🎙️ 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:
👉 tinyurl.com/y6tm5b4a

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!)

One more 'reply all' email to circa 70 people thanking everyone for their contribution and I will intentionally forget my password.

I had no clue that working on a website can be so painful - so many details that my eye can simply not catch

Not much to be added really ("UPF is with Palestine").

Looks great, congrats!

Can'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.

Ursula von der Leyen calls for suspension of EU trade with Israel Commission president cites illegal West Bank settlement plans, Gaza and attempts to ‘undermine two-state solution’

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. 👇🏻

Serbia cannot accept violent street protests | Letter Letter: Serbia’s deep engagement with Europe is hardly consistent with the idea of it as an ‘authoritarian’ and ‘malign’ outlier in the region, says the country’s president Aleksandar Vučić

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...

Not “Is this a good option - do we want a Trumpian immigration security state?” but “Would it work?”…

‘Why here?’: inside mid-Wales village where far-right figure has created a settlement Woodlander Initiative provokes mixed reactions in Llanafan Fawr as critics say aim is to build racially exclusive communities

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So happy to have a copy of my first book!

Looking for suggestions for personal scholarly websites, simple, affordable (free is even better!) and without a steep learning curve.

No, I am not into excessive self-branding and flattering but I need to meet the project requirements.

Very happy to see this one out, as a prelude to the special issue I am currently co-editing with Camil Ungureanu.

What is up with the center-right parties and the environment? Is there a prospect of a right-wing ecology that is not instrumental nor simply parroting the far-right ecologist points?

Glory to all the book reviewers out there (especially those who were kind enough to review my book) but this is why I try to stay away from writing them myself.

From the book "Political Hypocrisy" by David Runciman.

I know I didn't get the job but can I at least not perish?

From Denial to Delay: How the Far-Right is Orchestrating a Climate Backlash in European Parliament The far-right Patriots for Europe (PfE), currently the third-largest group in the European Parliament, achieved a major victory in July. The group will lead negotiations on the EU’s 2040 climate targe...

Happy to be interviewed for this article exploring the trajectories of climate obstruction (and acceptance) by the far right in the European Parliament. I also shared some insights from my work in progress - stay tuned!

www.desmog.com/2025/07/30/d...

Daniel Lawson @DanielLaw1998: Disabled parking should only be valid during business hours 9 to 5, Monday to Friday. I cannot see any reason why people with genuine disabilities would be out beyond these times. Jennifer Lee Rosman @JenLRossman: We’re disabled, Daniel, we’re not werewolves

7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

Disabled people want to live a full life. Instead, we’re forced to scrap over our right to food and a wash | Frances Ryan Britain’s political and media class advocate policies that leave disabled people hungry and dirty. Why are we expected to settle for this, asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

"Disabled people have to prove our humanity on repeat, sharing ever more intimate details of our lives and bodies to prove ourselves worthy, not least of taxpayer money."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨 BOOK REVIEW ALERT 🚨

Following John Hultgren in @environmentalpol.bsky.social A new review of 'Far-Right Ecologism' was published by Estelle Delaine in the Critique Internationale. The French speakers in my network, do have a look!

lnkd.in/dS2SPMgP

If you read or reviewed my book, let me know!

YouTube video by JHU-UPF Public Policy Center 🌍 Spatial implications of the green transition | Fiammetta Brandajs

🌍 Mañana, 2 de julio: Iª Jornada sobre Transición Verde y Post-crecimiento: Megaproyectos, Conflictos y Movilización Social en
@upf.edu

🤝Un espacio para conectar academia y activismo frente a la crisis eco-social

👉 bit.ly/4lysKNw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez2S...

BP, Once a Hunter in the Oil Industry, Is Now Prey. What Went Wrong?

Did CO₂ write this?

A bit on the digital ontologies by the excellent @rebeccaborges.bsky.social during the "Ecological Humanities" Congress at @publicpolicycenter.bsky.social

A very interesting presentation by Thiago Monteiro de Souza (Uni Minjo, Coimbra) on "Ecological Republicanism" during the Ecological Humanities conference at @publicpolicycenter.bsky.social

Things out of place all over the space

I attribute this to the conference season: too many events to 'consume' before the Summer break - the scorching heat (at least in the GN) does not help either. 😂

José Manuel Mojica Velez, a great former colleague of mine, on Ecological Humanities, Decoloniality and Climate Justice. #CIHE2025

Looking forward to presenting my work-in-progress on far-right mainstreaming in the European Parliament at the Ecological Humanities conference held at @upf.edu (30 June - 1 July). Great organisation by @bea-labajos.bsky.social and my colleagues from the JHU-UPF Public Policy Center!