Far Right and the Environment

<p>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 <i>The Far Right and the Environment: Politics Discourse and Communication </i>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.</p>