Matthew Varco

Matthew Varco

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Overview

I am working on an ESRC-funded PhD project within Human Geography, supervised by Dr Henrik Ernstson, Dr Aurora Fredriksen, and Prof Erik Swyngedouw. My work attempts to uncover how nature becomes the foundation for a variety of far-right and extremist political movements. Using archival, discursive, and ethnographic methods, I hope to improve our understanding of the political mobilisations of nature in the Anthropocene.

I also engage critically with debates around 'eco-fascism', and bring historical context and a geographical lens to bear on recent politicisations of the natural environment by right-leaning parties and movements, mainly in Europe.

I am a member of the Society and Environment Research Group (SERG).

Qualifications

  • 2020 - MSc Research Methods with Human Geography (University of Manchester)
  • 2019 - BA Geography with International Study (University of Manchester)

Research interests

Political ecologies of the far-right; Eco-fascism; Digital geographies; Archives; The anthropocene; Ethno-nationalism; Biopolitics; German history

Areas of expertise

  • G Geography (General)
  • Political Ecology
  • Political Geography
  • Nature-Society relations

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