Bellingcat Monitoring Podcast

Issues around the environment, ecology and climate change don’t necessarily underpin much of the far right’s activities around the globe these days. But is this going to be the case in the future? Bellingcat’s Michael Colborne spoke with Sam Moore and Alex Roberts, the authors of ‘The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right.’ (Polity, 2022), to understand how the far right understands and relates to nature and the environment, and what we can expect from the far right in the future amidst continued environmental degradation and the rising impacts of climate change.

I spoke for this episode with Sofija Todorović, the Belgrade-based program director at the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, a network of NGO across the Western Balkans. We spoke about the difficulties faced by the LGBT community in Serbia — including the country’s attempts to ban the Europride march in the capital, Belgrade — how anti-LGBT rhetoric and actions fit into the broader political context, and the threat posed by the far right and its allies in the mainstream.

In this episode I spoke with Dr. Eviane Leidig about women on the far right. We discussed Dr. Leidig’s fascinating research on female far-right influencers and media personalities and the diverse roles of women in far-right groups.