Ecofascism and the politics of de/territorialization

This article proposes that ecofascism captures popular imagination and politics by drawing from and extending localized conceptions and practices of enchanted ecologies. It examines how ecofascist politics draws on emplaced connections between humans, nonhumans, and gods to territorialize and naturalize beloved subjects while deterritorializing and denaturalizing hated others. I use territorialization to capture how the transcendent collective to which right-wing actors appeal and which they seek to protect is made meaningful by situating it within ecological connections that are already in place . Deterritorialization, by extension, is the temporal, symbolic, and, sometimes, quite literal displacement of hated others from within this web of connection. Ecofascist politics, the article argues, is animated by this constant move between territorialization and deterritorialization.