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Balša Lubarda

@lubardab.bsky.social
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MSCA postdoc @upf.edu. Formerly at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social & @weareceu.bsky.social. Odd bedfellows in politics, environment, everyday fascism. Author of Far-Right Ecologism. www.balsalubarda.com

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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Book promotion series "New Horizons in Social Sciences" / Serija promocija knjiga: "Novi horizonti u društvenim naukama
Damar Institute invites you to join its new international webinar series dedicated to important new books in the social sciences. In the series, we will discuss with the renowned authors about their r...
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Very happy to announce the book series "New Horizons in Social Sciences" organized wih Danilo Burzanović from Damar Institute. As the series opener, we will have David West discuss his "Political Ideologies and the Anthropocene Crisis" (Routledge, 2026) 🕙22 October, 10AM CET. Registration link👇
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New article! Is far-right ecologism going mainstream? A comparison of right-wing groups in the European Parliament by Balša Lubarda & Aron Buzogány. @lubardab.bsky.social @buzogany.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0964...
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
E-see you in Talinn on the 9th of June at noon CET! I will talk about what goats tell us about the blind spots of contemporary environmentalism!
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Global Far-Right Ecologies: Trends, Issues and Responses
This book explores far-right authoritarian and exclusionary interpretations of environmental crises that are gaining traction globally.  While research on the political ecology of the far right has gr...
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Proud to present my second book and the second volume of the Political Ecologies of the Far Right Network: Global Far-Right Ecologies: Trends, Issues and Responses, coming forth this Fall with Routledge. The book can be pre-ordered on @routledgebooks.bsky.social website (see link in the comment).
Red-Green-Blue book cover of "Global Far-Right Ecologies: Trends, Issues and Responses", coming out with Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right. The book is edited by Lise Benoist, George Edwards, Bernhard Forchtner, Balša Lubarda, Sonja Pietilainen and Kjell Vowles.
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Thanks to the MSCA PF requirements but also the fact that it has become increasingly difficult to keep up with the social media presence, I finally have a personal #website! If you want to know more about my ongoing & past projects and the ways in which we could collaborate, feel free to reach out!
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
If you are around, meet me in Firenze for the next two days as I attend the "Political emotions in times of crises" workshop at Scuola Normale Superiore. I will be presenting the preliminary findings of my EXEMPT project: why, how and whom engages in environmental scapegoating?
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Very excited to announce that the first paper of our special issue, exploring centre-right politics of environment, is now out in Environmental Politics! Have a look at this great piece by Robyn Eckersley and René Rejón, exploring the variations of #climateskepticism on the right in Australia! 🔜
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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.
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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JHU-UPF Public Policy Center @publicpolicycenter.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
🌱 ¿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! 🎧 lnkd.in/dx6WwSiT
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JHU-UPF Public Policy Center @publicpolicycenter.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
🌱 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! 🎧 lnkd.in/dx6WwSiT
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Katherine Kondor @drkondor.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Check out this great article by @ashifakassam.bsky.social, featuring yours truly and the fab @gretajasser.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
A nice way to end the year and reduce my inner, tidiness-induced noise
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Highly recommend as one of the past participants!
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The deadline is extended, so we look forward to receiving your abstracts by Friday, 26 December!
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Hearty congrats! Looking forward to reading it!
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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👇🏻
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
📼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...
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Pathways Forum #19 | Deep Dive - Far right ecologies: what challenges for sustainability science?
YouTube video by Pathways Initiative - Future Earth
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JHU-UPF Public Policy Center @publicpolicycenter.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📣 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
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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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Sabaheta Ramčilović-Suominen @sabaheta.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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...
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Launching the Routledge book – Just GLOBE Project
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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.
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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...
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Radical Ecologies of the Right and Left: A Conversation with Ashton Kingdon and Balša Lubarda | Review of Democracy
In this new episode of the “When the Far Right and the Far Left Converge” series, which shares fresh research from a workshop organised by the CEU DI Democracy in History Work Group, we discuss with D...
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🎙️ 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
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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 👇👇
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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!)
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
One more 'reply all' email to circa 70 people thanking everyone for their contribution and I will intentionally forget my password.
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I 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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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Not much to be added really ("UPF is with Palestine").
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Looks great, congrats!
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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.
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Dr. Soumaya Majdoub @soumayamajdoub.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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...
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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’
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I was happy to meet Srđan Cvijić and disciss the prospects of radical and not-so-radical green politics in the Balkans. 👇🏻
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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...
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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
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Seán Hanley @drseanhanley.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Not “Is this a good option - do we want a Trumpian immigration security state?” but “Would it work?”…
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Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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‘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
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Cat-Tebaldi @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
So happy to have a copy of my first book!
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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.
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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?
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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.
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I know I didn't get the job but can I at least not perish?
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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...
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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...
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Lysistrata’s Stone Phallus @lubottom.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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.
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
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"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...
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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
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Balša Lubarda @lubardab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨 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!
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JHU-UPF Public Policy Center @publicpolicycenter.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🌍 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...
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🌍 Spatial implications of the green transition | Fiammetta Brandajs
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