My first monograph (Routledge, 2024) was based on the doctoral thesis I defended at Central European University (Austria) with Summa Cum Laude. Far-Right Ecologism is an ethnography of nationalist organizations engaging in environmental activism. It uses Hungary and Poland as blueprints and ‘success stories’ for the far-right worldwide, to suggest an analytical framework for exploring future cases of far-right environmentalism. The book is now available at more than 150 libraries around the world, including the Library of Congress, MIT Library, European Parliament Library. Check if your university library has the book!
In 2026, ‘Far-Right Ecologism’ had three related offsprings. The first is a book chapter in the Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene (Edward Elgar, 2025), edited by Amanda Machin and Marcel Wissenburg and exploring the relationship between far-right ecologism and violence (co-written with Peter J. Bori). The second is a chapter on far-right ecologism and anthropocentrism in the second edition of the volume Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics (Edward Elgar, 2027), edited by Luigi Pellizzoni, Emanuele Leonardi and Viviana Asara. The third is the volume Global Far-Right Ecologies (Routledge, 2026) I co-edited with my colleagues from the Political Ecologies of the Far Right Network.
‘Lubarda is one of the most rigorously analytical among a new generation of scholars working on the ideological nexus between the Far Right and environmentalism. While his empirical research reaches into areas neglected by most scholarship, this book is also conceptually innovative and thought-provoking. I highly recommend it.’
Jonathan Olsen, Professor and Chair, Department of Social Sciences and Historical Studies, Texas Woman’s University, USA
‘I believe Balsa Lubarda’s book promises to be a very significant contribution. It applies a fitting theoretical approach to rich empirical research on a topic of growing importance: far right thinking about the environment. He points to themes with popular appeal, that cross-sect the usual rural-urban, social class divides, and moderate-radical divides. He also points to opportunities but also problems of building bridges across the political divide to gather broad support for green measures.’
Arlie Russell Hochschild, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
‘Lubarda clearly has an eye for nuance. He does an excellent job of showing just how contested environmental politics are within the far-Right, and he time and again emphasizes the protean nature of far right ecologism.’
John Hultgren, Professor, Bennington College, USA and the author of Border Walls Gone Green