Chloe Ahmann
@chloeahmann.bsky.social
anthropologist studying industrial pasts and environmental futures // author of futures after progress: hope and doubt in late industrial baltimore // bingo enthusiast
https://anthropology.cornell.edu/chloe-ahmann
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Chloe Ahmann
@chloeahmann.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Futures after Progress
A powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of better futures. Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped Sout...
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Hello! I’m an anthropologist at Cornell, where I study how people politicize “impure” environments in the long afterlife of American industry. I published my first book, Futures after Progress, this year with UChicago Press, based on 14 years of work in Baltimore…
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I haven't shared reviews here lately since it feels a little cringe, but I'm always humbled when folks give Futures an earnest read and take time sharing what they think. So to get to sit with a ✨whole ass forum✨ has me floored! Grateful to all the contributors.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9CWVB...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9CWVB...
A book forum on Chloe Ahmann's Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Published in History and Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I haven't shared reviews here lately since it feels a little cringe, but I'm always humbled when folks give Futures an earnest read and take time sharing what they think. So to get to sit with a ✨whole ass forum✨ has me floored! Grateful to all the contributors.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9CWVB...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9CWVB...
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👀 Check out this provocative new collection of brief essays on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” that Chloe Ahmann and Zeynep Oguz co-edited for Society & Space. I contributed a piece on the banality of eco-fascism in the Philippines (and beyond). Thanks, Chloe & Zeynep, for the opportunity!
📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758251374876
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October 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
👀 Check out this provocative new collection of brief essays on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” that Chloe Ahmann and Zeynep Oguz co-edited for Society & Space. I contributed a piece on the banality of eco-fascism in the Philippines (and beyond). Thanks, Chloe & Zeynep, for the opportunity!
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in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.
📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...
t.co/JUowfqw7cB
t.co/JUowfqw7cB
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758251374876
t.co
October 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.
📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...
t.co/JUowfqw7cB
t.co/JUowfqw7cB
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758251374876
t.co
October 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...
t.co/JUowfqw7cB
t.co/JUowfqw7cB
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Read @chloeahmann.bsky.social & Zeynep Oguz’s intro to a collection on ecofascism: “We must tend to the mundane ways” ecofascism “organizes the everyday, normalizing the commonsense that some lives are environmental goods while others pose existential threats”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Collection introduction: Everyday and emergent ecofascisms - Chloe Ahmann, Zeynep Oguz, 2025
journals.sagepub.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Read @chloeahmann.bsky.social & Zeynep Oguz’s intro to a collection on ecofascism: “We must tend to the mundane ways” ecofascism “organizes the everyday, normalizing the commonsense that some lives are environmental goods while others pose existential threats”. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy.
This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading:
3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...
This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading:
3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...
July 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy.
This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading:
3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...
This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading:
3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...
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when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.
RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
July 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
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There is no city, state or federal district where it is legal to terrorize and detain people for being brown and working in agriculture. These raids must stop immediately. 8/
July 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
There is no city, state or federal district where it is legal to terrorize and detain people for being brown and working in agriculture. These raids must stop immediately. 8/
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at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans
June 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans
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No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
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June 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
No more wars.
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Ahem, may I interrupt all the unraveling to share a lil news
May 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Ahem, may I interrupt all the unraveling to share a lil news
Ahem, may I interrupt all the unraveling to share a lil news
May 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Ahem, may I interrupt all the unraveling to share a lil news
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Had the total pleasure of speaking with @gilanthro.bsky.social
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨
newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨
newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...
Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Had the total pleasure of speaking with @gilanthro.bsky.social
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨
newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨
newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...
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Futures After Progress - from Baltimore to the world! Listen for a teaser of this powerful read and a timely conversation with @chloeahmann.bsky.social on toxicity, politics, and the possible futures of our pasts 🌱
Had the total pleasure of speaking with @gilanthro.bsky.social
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨
newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨
newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...
Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Futures After Progress - from Baltimore to the world! Listen for a teaser of this powerful read and a timely conversation with @chloeahmann.bsky.social on toxicity, politics, and the possible futures of our pasts 🌱
Had the total pleasure of speaking with @gilanthro.bsky.social
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨
newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨
newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...
Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Had the total pleasure of speaking with @gilanthro.bsky.social
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨
newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Futures after Progress (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). Interview up now! ✨
newbooksnetwork.com/chloe-ahmann...
“Instead of asking: ‘Do we all share the same worldview,’ [we might] ask: ‘Is your heart beating and do you plan to live? Then come this way and we will figure out the rest on the other side.’”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“Instead of asking: ‘Do we all share the same worldview,’ [we might] ask: ‘Is your heart beating and do you plan to live? Then come this way and we will figure out the rest on the other side.’”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Important for all of us but especially journalists.
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
April 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Important for all of us but especially journalists.
Reposted by Chloe Ahmann
We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.
![[text from the Declaration of Independence]
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qvyj3hxm4opuuddzrhcbiio6/bafkreiahlp7acp6y2hakkfu5h66vg2ifckdo6b7fqaebenki3qoxswp73e@jpeg)
April 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.
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The Trump administration has targeted at least eight foreign academics in America for deportation, often sending officers to snatch them off the street and shipping them halfway across the country—increasingly in apparent defiance of court orders against their rendition.
Trump's secret police are stalking more and more students
Scholars targeted by ICE are suing to fight deportation—and halt Trump's war on the First Amendment.
www.motherjones.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The Trump administration has targeted at least eight foreign academics in America for deportation, often sending officers to snatch them off the street and shipping them halfway across the country—increasingly in apparent defiance of court orders against their rendition.
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If you're a US historian who'd like to do this but are unfamiliar with the process, hit me up & I'll help you identify your target publication, write your pitch, & get your piece into that sweet, sweet 600-750 word range. (Pro bono in case that wasn't clear).
It's my literal job & I'd love to help.
It's my literal job & I'd love to help.
US historians should pitch their local outlets with essays about why this is bullshit.
March 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
If you're a US historian who'd like to do this but are unfamiliar with the process, hit me up & I'll help you identify your target publication, write your pitch, & get your piece into that sweet, sweet 600-750 word range. (Pro bono in case that wasn't clear).
It's my literal job & I'd love to help.
It's my literal job & I'd love to help.