Balša Lubarda
@lubardab.bsky.social
MSCA postdoc @upf.edu. Formerly at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social & @weareceu.bsky.social. Odd bedfellows in politics, environment, everyday fascism. Author of Far-Right Ecologism.
Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZQ2VTfIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=
Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZQ2VTfIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=
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Balša Lubarda
@lubardab.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Since I will probably stick around here for some time: I am currently a MSCA postdoc at @upfbarcelona.bsky.social, where I research ideological contentions within environmental movements in The Balkans. Most of my previous work was on the far right & environment. A few research highlights below 👇🧵
'realism'
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 11:00 AM
'realism'
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🌱 ¿Cómo se apropian los actores radicales del discurso ambiental? Te invitamos a escuchar la participación de @lubardab.bsky.social, investigador posdoctoral MSCA en el JHU–UPF Public Policy Center, en el podcast organizado por @revdem2020.bsky.social. ¡No te lo pierdas!
🎧 lnkd.in/dx6WwSiT
🎧 lnkd.in/dx6WwSiT
December 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
🌱 ¿Cómo se apropian los actores radicales del discurso ambiental? Te invitamos a escuchar la participación de @lubardab.bsky.social, investigador posdoctoral MSCA en el JHU–UPF Public Policy Center, en el podcast organizado por @revdem2020.bsky.social. ¡No te lo pierdas!
🎧 lnkd.in/dx6WwSiT
🎧 lnkd.in/dx6WwSiT
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🌱 How do radical actors appropriate environmental discourse?
We invite you to listen to @lubardab.bsky.social, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the JHU–UPF Public Policy Center, in a podcast organised by @revdem2020.bsky.social.
Don’t miss it!
🎧 lnkd.in/dx6WwSiT
We invite you to listen to @lubardab.bsky.social, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the JHU–UPF Public Policy Center, in a podcast organised by @revdem2020.bsky.social.
Don’t miss it!
🎧 lnkd.in/dx6WwSiT
December 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
🌱 How do radical actors appropriate environmental discourse?
We invite you to listen to @lubardab.bsky.social, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the JHU–UPF Public Policy Center, in a podcast organised by @revdem2020.bsky.social.
Don’t miss it!
🎧 lnkd.in/dx6WwSiT
We invite you to listen to @lubardab.bsky.social, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the JHU–UPF Public Policy Center, in a podcast organised by @revdem2020.bsky.social.
Don’t miss it!
🎧 lnkd.in/dx6WwSiT
Reposted by Balša Lubarda
Check out this great article by @ashifakassam.bsky.social, featuring yours truly and the fab @gretajasser.bsky.social!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Check out this great article by @ashifakassam.bsky.social, featuring yours truly and the fab @gretajasser.bsky.social!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
A nice way to end the year and reduce my inner, tidiness-induced noise
December 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
A nice way to end the year and reduce my inner, tidiness-induced noise
Highly recommend as one of the past participants!
📣 @pietrocastellig.bsky.social and I are absolutely thrilled to announce that the call for the 5th @ecpr.bsky.social Summer School on ‘Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics’ is now open!
🇮🇹 The event will be hosted by @unibo.it, from 6 to 10 July 2026.
🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/353
🇮🇹 The event will be hosted by @unibo.it, from 6 to 10 July 2026.
🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/353
Summer School of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, University of Bologna, 6 – 10 July 2026
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
December 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Highly recommend as one of the past participants!
The deadline is extended, so we look forward to receiving your abstracts by Friday, 26 December!
Imogen Richards and I are looking for panelists for our panel on far-right environmentalism during the 2026 @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference, 8-11 September 2026 (Krakow). Send title & abstract to balsa.lubarda@upf.edu and imogen.richards@deakin.edu.au by 17 December 2025.
December 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The deadline is extended, so we look forward to receiving your abstracts by Friday, 26 December!
In what is likely my sign-off for the year, I wrote for the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation, a part of the @ec.europa.eu, on whether far-right ecologism is being mainstreamed.
Link in comment👇🏻
Link in comment👇🏻
December 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
In what is likely my sign-off for the year, I wrote for the EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalisation, a part of the @ec.europa.eu, on whether far-right ecologism is being mainstreamed.
Link in comment👇🏻
Link in comment👇🏻
Imogen Richards and I are looking for panelists for our panel on far-right environmentalism during the 2026 @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference, 8-11 September 2026 (Krakow). Send title & abstract to balsa.lubarda@upf.edu and imogen.richards@deakin.edu.au by 17 December 2025.
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Imogen Richards and I are looking for panelists for our panel on far-right environmentalism during the 2026 @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference, 8-11 September 2026 (Krakow). Send title & abstract to balsa.lubarda@upf.edu and imogen.richards@deakin.edu.au by 17 December 2025.
📼The recording of the last week's Deep Dive webinar by Future Earth Pathways Initiative is now out!
Happy to have discussed the relevance of far-right ecologisms in today's times and many thanks to Noémi Gonda and Viola Baldeschi for the invitation.
www.youtube.com/watch?si=rHU...
Happy to have discussed the relevance of far-right ecologisms in today's times and many thanks to Noémi Gonda and Viola Baldeschi for the invitation.
www.youtube.com/watch?si=rHU...
Pathways Forum #19 | Deep Dive - Far right ecologies: what challenges for sustainability science?
YouTube video by Pathways Initiative - Future Earth
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📼The recording of the last week's Deep Dive webinar by Future Earth Pathways Initiative is now out!
Happy to have discussed the relevance of far-right ecologisms in today's times and many thanks to Noémi Gonda and Viola Baldeschi for the invitation.
www.youtube.com/watch?si=rHU...
Happy to have discussed the relevance of far-right ecologisms in today's times and many thanks to Noémi Gonda and Viola Baldeschi for the invitation.
www.youtube.com/watch?si=rHU...
Reposted by Balša Lubarda
📣 Presenting the speakers of the next #PolicyDialogues: "How should health policy adapt in the climate crisis?"
🗣️ With @drsoniaangell.bsky.social, @lvivas8.bsky.social and Enrique Castro
🗓️ 25/11 · 11:30 CEST
📍 Online (registration necessary)
👉🔗 tinyurl.com/yvv77s3y
🗣️ With @drsoniaangell.bsky.social, @lvivas8.bsky.social and Enrique Castro
🗓️ 25/11 · 11:30 CEST
📍 Online (registration necessary)
👉🔗 tinyurl.com/yvv77s3y
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
📣 Presenting the speakers of the next #PolicyDialogues: "How should health policy adapt in the climate crisis?"
🗣️ With @drsoniaangell.bsky.social, @lvivas8.bsky.social and Enrique Castro
🗓️ 25/11 · 11:30 CEST
📍 Online (registration necessary)
👉🔗 tinyurl.com/yvv77s3y
🗣️ With @drsoniaangell.bsky.social, @lvivas8.bsky.social and Enrique Castro
🗓️ 25/11 · 11:30 CEST
📍 Online (registration necessary)
👉🔗 tinyurl.com/yvv77s3y
Reposted by Balša Lubarda
A gentle reminder that our 1st launch of Socioecological Transformations book is today, 20 Nov, 14:00–15:35 EET.
If you’re planning to join, please add it to your calendar, as there is no registration & so no automatic reminders.
🔗 Event link: justglobeproject.com/launching-th...
If you’re planning to join, please add it to your calendar, as there is no registration & so no automatic reminders.
🔗 Event link: justglobeproject.com/launching-th...
Launching the Routledge book – Just GLOBE Project
justglobeproject.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 AM
A gentle reminder that our 1st launch of Socioecological Transformations book is today, 20 Nov, 14:00–15:35 EET.
If you’re planning to join, please add it to your calendar, as there is no registration & so no automatic reminders.
🔗 Event link: justglobeproject.com/launching-th...
If you’re planning to join, please add it to your calendar, as there is no registration & so no automatic reminders.
🔗 Event link: justglobeproject.com/launching-th...
The recording of last Friday's panel on 'Far-right ecologies', organised by @futureearth.bsky.social is now out (see comment)!
I was happy to share the 'floor' with Viola Baldeschi, Noemi Gonda, Shehnoor Khurram and Bernhard Forchtner.
I was happy to share the 'floor' with Viola Baldeschi, Noemi Gonda, Shehnoor Khurram and Bernhard Forchtner.
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The recording of last Friday's panel on 'Far-right ecologies', organised by @futureearth.bsky.social is now out (see comment)!
I was happy to share the 'floor' with Viola Baldeschi, Noemi Gonda, Shehnoor Khurram and Bernhard Forchtner.
I was happy to share the 'floor' with Viola Baldeschi, Noemi Gonda, Shehnoor Khurram and Bernhard Forchtner.
Reposted by Balša Lubarda
Check Out The Latest Podcast from @revdem2020.bsky.social Which Features Myself and the Wonderful @lubardab.bsky.social Talking About Our Work On When the Far Right and the Far Left Converge and When Environmentalism Becomes a Battleground of Competing Ideologies 👇👇
revdem.ceu.edu/2025/11/07/r...
revdem.ceu.edu/2025/11/07/r...
Radical Ecologies of the Right and Left: A Conversation with Ashton Kingdon and Balša Lubarda | Review of Democracy
In this new episode of the “When the Far Right and the Far Left Converge” series, which shares fresh research from a workshop organised by the CEU DI Democracy in History Work Group, we discuss with D...
revdem.ceu.edu
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Check Out The Latest Podcast from @revdem2020.bsky.social Which Features Myself and the Wonderful @lubardab.bsky.social Talking About Our Work On When the Far Right and the Far Left Converge and When Environmentalism Becomes a Battleground of Competing Ideologies 👇👇
revdem.ceu.edu/2025/11/07/r...
revdem.ceu.edu/2025/11/07/r...
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🎙️ In our new podcast, @ashkingdon.bsky.social and @lubardab.bsky.social discuss how both the far-right and the far-left mobilize ecological ideas, often drawing from the same language of resistance.
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/y6tm5b4a
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/y6tm5b4a
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, @ashkingdon.bsky.social and @lubardab.bsky.social discuss how both the far-right and the far-left mobilize ecological ideas, often drawing from the same language of resistance.
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/y6tm5b4a
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/y6tm5b4a
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I Have Always Admired @lubardab.bsky.social
and His Work So It Was Such a Pleasure and Joy To Work Him Him on This Project 😍😍Here We Are Talking About Our Upcoming Article Co-Optation Without Ownership: The Idea of Resistance in Multimodal Radical Right and Left Ecological Argumentation 👇👇
and His Work So It Was Such a Pleasure and Joy To Work Him Him on This Project 😍😍Here We Are Talking About Our Upcoming Article Co-Optation Without Ownership: The Idea of Resistance in Multimodal Radical Right and Left Ecological Argumentation 👇👇
🎙️ In our new podcast, @ashkingdon.bsky.social and @lubardab.bsky.social discuss how both the far-right and the far-left mobilize ecological ideas, often drawing from the same language of resistance.
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/y6tm5b4a
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/y6tm5b4a
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I Have Always Admired @lubardab.bsky.social
and His Work So It Was Such a Pleasure and Joy To Work Him Him on This Project 😍😍Here We Are Talking About Our Upcoming Article Co-Optation Without Ownership: The Idea of Resistance in Multimodal Radical Right and Left Ecological Argumentation 👇👇
and His Work So It Was Such a Pleasure and Joy To Work Him Him on This Project 😍😍Here We Are Talking About Our Upcoming Article Co-Optation Without Ownership: The Idea of Resistance in Multimodal Radical Right and Left Ecological Argumentation 👇👇
One more 'reply all' email to circa 70 people thanking everyone for their contribution and I will intentionally forget my password.
October 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
One more 'reply all' email to circa 70 people thanking everyone for their contribution and I will intentionally forget my password.
I had no clue that working on a website can be so painful - so many details that my eye can simply not catch
October 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I had no clue that working on a website can be so painful - so many details that my eye can simply not catch
Not much to be added really ("UPF is with Palestine").
October 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Not much to be added really ("UPF is with Palestine").
Can't say I did not expect this from Cal or any other higher ed institution but these remidners of authoritarian, colonial (even genocidal) and extractive institutions do hurt.
No one is safe: Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Can't say I did not expect this from Cal or any other higher ed institution but these remidners of authoritarian, colonial (even genocidal) and extractive institutions do hurt.
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1.Ursula, you have ZERO credibility
2.This unanimity requirement institutionalises a grotesque "lowest common denominator logic" that transforms European foreign policy into a theater play while definitions are discussed to avoid the terms 'famine' and 'genocide'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
2.This unanimity requirement institutionalises a grotesque "lowest common denominator logic" that transforms European foreign policy into a theater play while definitions are discussed to avoid the terms 'famine' and 'genocide'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Ursula von der Leyen calls for suspension of EU trade with Israel
Commission president cites illegal West Bank settlement plans, Gaza and attempts to ‘undermine two-state solution’
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
1.Ursula, you have ZERO credibility
2.This unanimity requirement institutionalises a grotesque "lowest common denominator logic" that transforms European foreign policy into a theater play while definitions are discussed to avoid the terms 'famine' and 'genocide'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
2.This unanimity requirement institutionalises a grotesque "lowest common denominator logic" that transforms European foreign policy into a theater play while definitions are discussed to avoid the terms 'famine' and 'genocide'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
I was happy to meet Srđan Cvijić and disciss the prospects of radical and not-so-radical green politics in the Balkans. 👇🏻
Environmental issues aren’t just “green” – extremist groups use them too.
With sociologist @lubardab.bsky.social, we discussed eco-fascism, activism vs. extremism, and ecological struggles in Serbia and the region.
The latest episode of "Lighthouse" podcast 👇🏻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SKA...
With sociologist @lubardab.bsky.social, we discussed eco-fascism, activism vs. extremism, and ecological struggles in Serbia and the region.
The latest episode of "Lighthouse" podcast 👇🏻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SKA...
BCBP podkast Svetionik / BCSP podcast Lighthouse – Balša Lubarda
YouTube video by Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
www.youtube.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I was happy to meet Srđan Cvijić and disciss the prospects of radical and not-so-radical green politics in the Balkans. 👇🏻
Not the first and obviously not the last time @theguardian.com is allowing dictators in its 'marketplace of ideas'. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Serbia cannot accept violent street protests | Letter
Letter: Serbia’s deep engagement with Europe is hardly consistent with the idea of it as an ‘authoritarian’ and ‘malign’ outlier in the region, says the country’s president Aleksandar Vučić
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Not the first and obviously not the last time @theguardian.com is allowing dictators in its 'marketplace of ideas'. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Not “Is this a good option - do we want a Trumpian immigration security state?” but “Would it work?”…
How would Reform UK’s ‘legal reset’ on migration work? on.ft.com/4pbMlpB
How would Reform UK’s ‘legal reset’ on migration work?
Rightwing populist party wants Britain to withdraw from international treaties and conventions to facilitate removals
on.ft.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Not “Is this a good option - do we want a Trumpian immigration security state?” but “Would it work?”…
