Articles

A Political Ecology of Modernist Resistance: Turning the Tide on Ecomodernism and Ecofascism in the New Climatic Regime

Authors

  • Christopher Felix Julien Utrecht University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.44.1.40119

Keywords:

Climate Crisis, Ecomodernism, Ecofascism, Ecology of practices, Extinction Rebellion, Politics of life

Abstract

The mounting pressures of the climate -and ecological crisis organising politics under a “new climatic regime” (Latour 2017, 3). The epistemic and affective interference of Holocene collapse (author 2022) mobilises Minority-world liberal and far-right resistance, driving feedbacks that undercut democratic capacities for mitigation and adaptation (IPCC 2022). This paper proposes approaching such resistance through an “ecology of practices” (Stengers 2005, 2010), thereby delineating a shared modern timespace linked to affordances of whiteness. In response, the paper proposes a ‘politics of life’ that displaces humanistic agency as the bearer of historical progress and territorial integrity.

Author Biography

Christopher Felix Julien, Utrecht University

Christopher F. Julien (he/they) is an activist and researcher based in Zaandam, the Netherlands. His PhD research at Utrecht University focuses on new materialisms, and decolonial and eco-thinking, with the aim to develop materialist-epistemological techniques for ecological governance. He is active in, and a spokesperson for, Extinction Rebellion NL. He has published in MATTER: Journal for New Materialist Research and in The More Posthuman Glossary, and holds cum laude Masters degrees in Cultural Analysis and in Conflict Studies & Human Rights.

Published

2024-06-06

How to Cite

Julien, Christopher Felix. 2024. “A Political Ecology of Modernist Resistance: Turning the Tide on Ecomodernism and Ecofascism in the New Climatic Regime”. Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 44 (1):68-83. https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.44.1.40119.