This article inquires into how contemporary populist radical right parties relate to environmental issues of countryside and climate protection, by analyzing relevant discourses of the British National Party (BNP) and the Danish People's Party (DPP). It does so by looking at party materials along three dimensions: the aesthetic, the symbolic, and the material. The article discusses to what extent the parties' political stances on environmental issues are conditioned by deeper structures of nationalist ideology and the understandings of nature embedded therein. It illustrates a fundamental difference between the way nationalist actors engage in, on the one hand, the protection of nature as national countryside and landscape, epitomizing the nation's beauty, harmony and purity over which the people are sovereign. On the other hand, they deny or cast doubt on environmental risks located at a transnational level, such as those that relate to climate. The article argues that this apparent inconsistency is rooted in the ideological tenets of nationalism as the transnational undermines the nationalist ideal of sovereignty.
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Bernhard Forchtner and Christoffer Kølvraa
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Daoist Political Ecology as Green Party Ideology
The Case of the Swedish Greens
Devin K. Joshi
envision to be the relatively peaceful, harmonious, and nurturing character of nature ( Liu 2011 ). Such deviant actions include destructive and harmful behaviors like fighting wars, military conscription, aggressive nationalism, excessive taxation
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Dec 2022
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John Sonnett
-based problems of water management: Egypt’s nationalism overrode concerns about possible impacts of the Aswan Dam, which now blocks vital silt from reaching the Lower Nile Valley; Saudi Arabia has unwisely invested its oil money into profligate use of water
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- 206–214 (9 total)
The Role of Naturalness in Ecological Restoration
A Case Study from the Cook County Forest Preserves
Nicole M. Evans and William P. Stewart
natural selection for fitness for thousands of years. It is fitting and it belongs. To destroy it is to destroy the real America” ( J. Jensen 1927 ). Jensen quite explicitly linked naturalness, divine design, and nationalism to make the case for native
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Eric J. Cunningham
, and carried out using machinery from the United States. In this Makio was part of a larger trend of postwar “American liberal nationalism” in which dam building was embroiled in Cold War geopolitics and stood as a marker of democracy, progress, and
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Law Abiding Citizens
On Popular Support for the Illegal Killing of Wolves
Olve Krange, Erica von Essen, and Ketil Skogen
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In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Humans “in the Loop”?
Human-Centrism, Posthumanism, and AI
Nandita Biswas Mellamphy
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In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2021
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Michael Sheridan
Boundaries have become hot topics in recent social science. Studies of nationalism, globalization, and migration require attention to spatially bounded social phenomena. Gender, race, and class studies focus on bounded categories and the work it
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Meshworks and the Making of Climate Places in the European Alps
A Framework for Ethnographic Research on the Perceptions of Climate Change
Sophie Elixhauser, Stefan Böschen, and Katrin Vogel
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In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2018
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- 281–307 (27 total)
Explicating Ecoculture
Tracing a Transdisciplinary Focal Concept
Melissa M. Parks
from narrow ideas within strict boundaries of nationalism, language, ethnicity, and tradition, to broader “sites of struggle,” through which “the social order is maintained, challenged, produced, and reproduced, in the performance of various social
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2020
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