Troubled Waters and No Bridges: The Ecofascisms of an Imagined Global Middle Class

Alexandra Cotofana, Zayed University

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Environment And Planning D-Society & Space

Publication Date

9-12-2025

Abstract

The article traces ecofascism in social-media commentary following a storm that affected the United Arab Emirates in April of 2024. This ecofascism is imagined by its creators as punching-up, as commentators see themselves as part of a global middle-class rejoicing at nature harming an equally imagined group of Emirati ultra-rich. Ignoring scientifically sanctioned realities of storms as products of climate change, these commentators blame cloud-seeding and techno-solutionism to cover forms of Islamophobia and ecofascism.

ISSN

0263-7758

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Disciplines

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Keywords

Cloudseeding, UAE, ecofascism, islamophobia

Indexed in Scopus

no

Open Access

no

Link to Full Text

Share

COinS