The Great Driving Right Show

Published by Verso Books, this critical analysis examines how far-right movements have mobilized against climate action and green energy transitions since the pandemic. The Zetkin Collective traces the political strategies through which the right frames decarbonization as an existential threat to liberty, family, and national sovereignty, constructing what they term an ‘inverted crisis.’ The book maps the networks connecting anti-road-pricing saboteurs, ‘freedom’ convoys, farmers’ protests, and Trump’s opposition to electric vehicles, identifying fossil-fuel interests and cycles of moral panic around climate activists, trans people, and migrants as driving forces. The authors argue this represents a new form of ‘fossil fascism’—a violent mobility regime emerging as climate crisis intensifies. Relevant to the editorial line through its engagement with contemporary political ecology, capitalism, and the aesthetics of right-wing resistance movements.

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