Tatjana Söding is a research member of the Zetkin Collective. The Zetkin Collective is a group of scholars, activists, and students working on the political ecology of the far right. Most recently, the Collective has published its first book titled “White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism” (Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective, Verso, 2021) in which they investigated political parties on the far-right end of the spectrum in thirteen countries and their respective positions and proposals on climate and energy. The book puts forth the hypothesis of a historical link between fossil fuel production and regimes of racism and fascism, and postulates what political force the far-right’s climate change denialism and anti-migratory attitudes can take on in the future.

In her own research, Tatjana is investigating the policy propositions, ideological underpinnings, and discursive frames of the political ecology of the Alternative für Deutschland, both through document research and interviews with party members in the region of Lusatia.

Tatjana is pursuing an MSc in Human Ecology at Lund University and has previously gained a BA in Liberal Arts (international politics, sociology, and sustainability) from University College Maastricht and Korea University. She is a founding member of the student-led initiative, Erasmus by Train, and engages actively in the climate justice movement. Her further research interests include economic and social limits to growth, processes of political and social transformation, and feminist/queer ecology.