Visualising Far-Right Environments: Communication and the Politics of Nature

This volume presents ground-breaking analyses of how the far right represents natural environments and environmentalism around the globe. Images are not simply pervasive in our increasingly visual culture – they are a means of proposing worlds to viewers. Accordingly, the book approaches the visual not as something ‘extra’ or ‘illustrative’ but as a key means of producing identities and ‘doing politics’. Putting visuality centre stage and covering political parties and non-party actors in Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe and the United States, contributors demonstrate the various ways in which the far right articulates natural environments and the rampant environmental crises of the twenty-first century, providing essential insights into such multifaceted politics.

Table of Contents:
Studying the far right’s natural environments: towards a visual turn – Bernhard Forchtner 1 Right as rain: affective publics and the changing visual rhetoric of the far right in South Africa – Scott Burnett 2 The exclusivist claims of Pacific ecofascists: visual environmental communication by far-right groups in Australia and New Zealand – Kristy Campion and Justin Phillips 3 The National Socialist Movement of the United States and the turn to environmentalism: greenfingers or brownshirts? – Daniel Jones 4 The environmental semiotics of the Spanish far-right populism: Vox’s visual rhetoric strategies online – Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero 5 Purity and control: gender and visual environmental communication by the extreme right in Cyprus – Miranda Christou 6 The new Russian civilisation: Arctic fossil fuels, white masculinity, and the neo-fascist visual politics of the Izborskii Club – Sonja Pietiläinen 7 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 Mišík 8 From metapolitics to electoral communication: visualising ‘nature’ in the French far right – Zoé Carle 9 The murky world of ideologies: the (un)troubling overlaps in visual communication between Hungarian greens and far-right ecologists – Balša Lubarda 10 Homeland, cows and climate change: the visualisation of environmental issues by the far right in India – Mukul Sharma 11 Double vision: local environment and global climate change through the German far-right lens – Bernhard Forchtner and Jonathan Olsen 12 Talking heads and contrarian graphs: televising the Swedish far right’s climate denialism – Kjell Vowles 13 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 Cagle Looking back, looking forward: some preliminary conclusions on the far right’s visualisation of its natural environments – Bernhard Forchtner Index