ABSTRACT
Although the 1990s witnessed a vast proliferation of publications attempting to analyse Green politics and Green ideology, some of the basic questions that shaped this whole field of research remain crucial and largely unanswered. Most prominent among these questions are surely the following: What is the background against which the need for the articulation of Green ideology emerges? Why does that need arise, and how? More generally, to what do Green ideology and Green politics owe their emergence, and what factors can account for their development? In this chapter I shall try to move beyond standard, but to a large extent unsatisfactory, answers to these questions, towards an analysis of the emergence and development of Green ideology informed by discourse theory and particularly by what I shall call a theory of dislocation.
