Visualising Far-Right Environments

Bernhard Forchtner is an Associate Professor in the School of Arts, Media and Communication at the University of Leicester

‘In the growing literature on the far right and the environment, too few works centre the visual politics that are so integral to extremist appeals. Forchtner and his collaborators work to address this lacuna. Novel in its focus, global in its scope, and rigorous in its analysis, Visualising far-right environments makes a necessary and compelling contribution to our understanding of the far right today.’ John Hultgren, Bennington College‘A welcome, timely, and original contribution. This set of diverse global case studies richly analyzes the evergreen appeal of environmental and ecological claims—and their visual representations—to burgeoning far right movements around the world. An essential read.’ Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Founding Director of the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) at the American University in Washington, DC'Visualising Far-Right Environments makes a significant contribution to the field by highlighting the crucial role of ‘the visual’ in far-right environmental communication. This focus on the visual aspect, but also the attention to party and nonparty actors and the global perspective makes this book an essential read for scholars, students, and practitioners interested in understanding far-right politics. By demonstrating the complex interplay between ideology, context, and strategy in far-right environmental communication, this book is essential for understanding and addressing the challenges posed by the far right’s engagement with environmental questions in contemporary politics.'Gijs Lambrechts, Journal of Language and Politics

• Studying the far right’s natural environments: towards a visual turn – Bernhard Forchtner1 Right as rain: affective publics and the changing visual rhetoric of the far right in South Africa – Scott Burnett2 The exclusivist claims of Pacific ecofascists: visual environmental communication by far-right groups in Australia and New Zealand – Kristy Campion and Justin Phillips3 The National Socialist Movement of the United States and the turn to environmentalism: greenfingers or brownshirts? – Daniel Jones4 The environmental semiotics of the Spanish far-right populism: Vox’s visual rhetoric strategies online – Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero5 Purity and control: gender and visual environmental communication by the extreme right in Cyprus – Miranda Christou6 The new Russian civilisation: Arctic fossil fuels, white masculinity, and the neo-fascist visual politics of the Izborskii Club – Sonja Pietiläinen7 Not so green after all: visual representation of green issues by the far-right Kotlebovci – People’s Party Our Slovakia – Radka Vicenová, Veronika Oravcová and Matúš Mišík8 From metapolitics to electoral communication: visualising ‘nature’ in the French far right – Zoé Carle9 The murky world of ideologies: the (un)troubling overlaps in visual communication between Hungarian greens and far-right ecologists – Balša Lubarda10 Homeland, cows and climate change: the visualisation of environmental issues by the far right in India – Mukul Sharma11 Double vision: local environment and global climate change through the German far-right lens – Bernhard Forchtner and Jonathan Olsen12 Talking heads and contrarian graphs: televising the Swedish far right’s climate denialism – Kjell Vowles13 The (paranoid) style of American climate politics: a comparative visual rhetoric analysis of web design by far-right and left conspiracists in the United States – Lauren CagleLooking back, looking forward: some preliminary conclusions on the far right’s visualisation of its natural environments – Bernhard ForchtnerIndex