CHLOE AHMANN

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell. Much of my work is set in Baltimore, and considers what efforts to think and enact environmental futures look like from the sedimented space of late industrialism. I am also beginning research on environmentally conscious separatist movements in the Pacific Northwest United States that seek to repair body, soil, and soul from the degradations of the modern age. This website includes links to my recent writing as well as background on my research and teaching. 

 

For the latest writing, see: “The Fight Against Incineration is a Chance to Right Historic Wrongs,” a recent op-ed in the Baltimore Beat co-authored with Anand Pandian; “Reading Fascists Reading Shakespeare: Literary Populism in White Power Fiction,” a new article with Devin Proctor, released this year in Public Culture; and a collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms,” co-edited for Environment and Planning D: Society and Space with Zeynep Oguz. And for a real fun project, check out (and print, and distribute) this ’zine on “The Everyday Life of Fascism,” composed with a fantastic group of comrades.

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Finally, I’m excited to share that my first book, Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore, is now out with the University of Chicago Press, and was recently recognized with honorable mentions for the Gregory Bateson Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Julian Steward Award from the Anthropology and Environment Society. You can read the open-access version for free here.