Global Far-Right Ecologies

Lise Benoist is a PhD candidate in Human Geography at Uppsala University, Sweden.George Edwards is a PhD candidate in Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. Bernhard Forchtner is Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Media, and Communication, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.Balša Lubarda is Head of Research at Damar Institute, Montenegro.Sonja Pietiläinen is a postdoctoral researcher at Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Finland.Kjell Vowles is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

“Including case studies and interviews with environmental activists, Global Far-Right Ecologies – the first truly global perspective on how the far right frames environmental issues and climate change – is a must read for anyone interested in the nexus between the far right and environmental crises today.”Jonathan Olsen, Texas Woman’s University, USA“For environmental activists, this volume is a lifeline. Reading about different places and struggles worldwide helps us feel less isolated in our efforts, challenges our sense of exceptionalism, and questions the ideology that informs our practice. For academics, it’s an invitation to untangle the complex nuances of conservation and coercion, “green” rhetoric and authoritarianism, development and dispossession. Empirically rich and politically grounded, this book will change how you perceive the various shades of green, not just the flattering ones.”Iva Marković, Programme Director, Organisation for Political Ecology, Serbia“This volume documents far-right ecological politics across often under-explored regions whilst amplifying marginalised voices in far-right and environmental scholarship. Its integration of activist interviews with analyses of extractivism and green authoritarianism, coupled with its deliberate provincialising of Europe, makes it an indispensable and global intervention.”Imogen Richards, Deakin University, New Zealand

• Introduction. The far right, environmental and anti-environmental concerns: a more global perspective Part I: Case studies 1. Reinforcing colonial inequalities? New forms of state-led and market-based conservation in Botswana and Namibia 2. New authoritarian-populist forms of the green transition: nationhood and territory in Angola 3. Not your blood, not your soil: Land and belonging in colonial matrices 4. Fossil fuels for the American worker: Anti-environmentalism, fossil capital, and the working class 5. Neoextractivism, conservation, and the post-truth politics of Brazil's far right 6. Between thugs, sound cannons and mines: right-wing ecologies in Serbia 7. Far-right Ecologism in Disguise? How Environmental Claims Underpin Green Authoritarianism in Nicaragua 8. Forests and the nation: Conservation and exclusion in modern Thailand 9. Saffron Energies? Hindu Nationalism and Low-carbon Energy Deployment in India 10. The real ‘threat to our way of life’: Criminalisation of climate protest and erosion of democratic principles in Australia 11. Children of the Nation in Far-Right Ecologies Part II: Interviews 12. ‘The climate movement is, in many ways, a call for reparations’ 13. ‘Universities must acknowledge the wisdom that lies beyond the realm of academia’ 14. ‘The water flooded this landscape’ 15. ‘Roma residents are accused of not caring for the environment, even though they bear the brunt of pollution caused by others’ 16. ‘We work with people who have ecological visions, and we raise awareness so as to include social dimensions and take a clearly democratic and inclusionary stance’