ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, both the crisis of liberal democracy, as visible in, for example, the rise of far-right actors in Europe and the United States, and environmental crises, from declining biodiversity to climate change, are increasingly in the public spotlight. Whilst both areas have been analysed extensively on their own, The Far Right and the Environment: Politics, Discourse and Communication provides much needed insights into their intersection by illuminating the environmental communication of far-right party and non-party actors in Europe and the United States. Although commonly perceived as a ‘left-wing’ issue today, concerns over the natural environment by the far right have a long, ideology-driven history. Thus, it is not surprising that some members of the far right offer distinctive ecological visions of communal life, though, for example, climate-change scepticism is voiced too. Investigating this range of stances within their discourse about the natural environment provides a window into the wider politics of the far right and points to a close connection between the politics of identity and the imagination of nature. Connecting the fields of environmental communication and study of the far right, contributions to this edited volume therefore offer timely assessments of this often-overlooked dimension of far-right politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|35 pages
Two fields, many topics
part II|49 pages
Western Europe
chapter 4|15 pages
‘Protecting Our Green and Pleasant Land’
part III|46 pages
Nordic Countries
chapter 8|15 pages
The Far Right and Climate Change Denial
chapter 9|15 pages
The Allure of Exploding Bats
part IV|103 pages
Central Europe
chapter 13|21 pages
Beyond the ‘German Forest’
part V|66 pages
Beyond Europe