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New on The Identities BlogEcofascism in Italy
Climate change is one of today’s most urgent global challenges—but it’s also become a highly political battleground. While environmentalism is typically associated with progressive values in mainstream media and public opinion, my Identities article, ‘The dark green agenda: tracing ecofascist ideologies and identities in Italy’, reveals a more complex and unsettling development gaining attention in academic circles: far-right movements are crafting their own ecological narratives in ways that are both sophisticated and contradictory....
Sport celebrities and cosmopolitan imaginaries
Lamine Yamal, the 17-year-old wonderkid in the world of football, has three tiny flags printed on his boots: that of Equatorial Guinea, the country of origin of his mother; that of Morocco, the country of origin of his father; and that of Spain, the country where he was born and that he decided to represent in international competitions. His case is not original; over the last decades, many athletes with multiple national backgrounds have risen to fame....
Dictator DNA: individualising Nazism in the context of rising fascism and genocide
Hitler has been making headlines a lot in recent years – often because of others’ politics, words or high-profile hand gestures. The most recent headline, though, was about Hitler himself on 13 November, only two days following Remembrance Day, when the media reported that new research and analysis of Hilter's DNA taken from blood on the sofa where he killed himself in 1945 at the end of the war showed that Hitler had Kallmann Syndrome....
Racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain
In September 2025, one of the largest far-right marches in the history of the UK took place in London at which the American tech billionaire Elon Musk addressed a crowd of over 100,000 protesters wrapped in Union Jack and St. George’s flags, openly inciting violent action. In the following week, the UK’s Labour Government rolled out the red carpet for US President Donald Trump’s state visit to facilitate a £150 billion investment of American tech firms. Both events are indicators of the mainstreaming, transnationalization, mimicking and courting of the far-right movement – trends that have a longer trajectory in the UK....
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