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Chloe Ahmann

@chloeahmann.bsky.social

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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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 ....

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November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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Society for Cultural Anthropology

@culanth.bsky.social

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:

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

November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM

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Chloe Ahmann

@chloeahmann.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 ✨✨✨

The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 7d

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

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

November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM

Chloe Ahmann

@chloeahmann.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 ✨✨✨

The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 7d

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

November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM

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The University of Chicago Press

@uchicagopress.bsky.social

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

November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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Chloe Ahmann

@chloeahmann.bsky.social

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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November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM

Chloe Ahmann

@chloeahmann.bsky.social

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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November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM

Chloe Ahmann

@chloeahmann.bsky.social

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 👻📚✊✨

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.

November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM

Chloe Ahmann

@chloeahmann.bsky.social

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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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November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM

Chloe Ahmann

@chloeahmann.bsky.social

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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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)

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November 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM

Chloe Ahmann

@chloeahmann.bsky.social

www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

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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October 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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Noah Theriault

@noahtheriault.bsky.social

👀 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!

Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · Oct 5

📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...

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October 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM

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Kai Bosworth

@kaibosworth.bsky.social

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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October 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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Kai Bosworth

@kaibosworth.bsky.social

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.

Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · Oct 5

📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758251374876

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October 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM

Chloe Ahmann

@chloeahmann.bsky.social

📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...

t.co/JUowfqw7cB

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758251374876

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October 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM

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Radhika Govindrajan

@radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social

Read @chloeahmann.bsky.social & Zeynep Oguz’s intro to a collection on ecofascism: “We must tend to the mundane ways” ecofascism “organizes the everyday, normalizing the commonsense that some lives are environmental goods while others pose existential threats”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Collection introduction: Everyday and emergent ecofascisms - Chloe Ahmann, Zeynep Oguz, 2025

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September 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM

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Neil Lewis, Jr.

@neillewisjr.bsky.social

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy.

This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading:

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I pledge that I will not provide any service to Columbia University. I will not speak at conferences held at or organized by Columbia. I will not publish with Columbia publications or provide peer reviews for them. I will not provide outside tenure evaluations for Columbia departments. I will not contribute in any way to the institution until everyone who is responsible for this week’s shameful decision has resigned, retired, or been fired, and until Columbia repudiates their catastrophic choice.

July 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · Jul 26

Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 25

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).

This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

July 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM

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United Farm Workers

@ufw.bsky.social

There is no city, state or federal district where it is legal to terrorize and detain people for being brown and working in agriculture. These raids must stop immediately. 8/

July 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM

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Dave Itzkoff

@ditzkoff.bsky.social

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

June 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM

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Rehman Siddiq

@rehmansiddiq.com

No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.

June 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM