White Skin, Black Fuel

On the Danger of Fossil Fascism

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On sale May 18, 2021 | 576 Pages | 9781839761768

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Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet?

In the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, revealing its deep historical roots. Fossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces have risen to the surface, some professing to have the solution—closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down.

Epic and riveting, White Skin, Black Fuel traces a future of political fronts that can only heat up.
Andreas Malm is a scholar of human ecology and author of, among other books, Fossil Capital and The Progress of This Storm.

The Zetkin Collective is a group of scholars, activists and students working on the political ecology of the far right.
The Zetkin Collective View titles by The Zetkin Collective

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Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet?

In the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, revealing its deep historical roots. Fossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces have risen to the surface, some professing to have the solution—closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down.

Epic and riveting, White Skin, Black Fuel traces a future of political fronts that can only heat up.

Author

Andreas Malm is a scholar of human ecology and author of, among other books, Fossil Capital and The Progress of This Storm.

The Zetkin Collective is a group of scholars, activists and students working on the political ecology of the far right.
The Zetkin Collective View titles by The Zetkin Collective

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