Climate change and the far right
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernhard Forchtner (0000-0001-7782-9288, University of Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/wcc.604 |
| OpenAlex | W2968337209 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 91 |
| References cited | 56 |
In recent years two crises have populated the imagination of publics: environmental crises, ranging from, for example, water and air pollution to climate change, and the crisis of liberal democracy, illustrated by the rise of far‐right actors across Europe, the United States and beyond. While these environmental and political crises have been analyzed on their own, little research has been done on their nexus. Against this background, this focus article reviews existing academic literature on far‐right climate‐change communication by European party and nonparty actors, that is, climate‐change communication from a distinctively ethno‐nationalist and authoritarian perspective. The far right is not a homogenous entity but best viewed as a continuum, ranging from radical‐right, anti‐liberal democracy actors to extreme‐right, anti‐democracy ones. This contribution to WIREs Climate Change argues that many, though not all, far‐right party and nonparty actors are skeptical towards (anthropogenic) climate change and/or responses to it, at least in comparison to the European mainstream. The article does so by reviewing existing research before formulating areas for further research. This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Climate Science and Social Movements
Authoritarianism · Climate change · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Far right · Political economy · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Skepticism · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Law · Social Media and Politics
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Populist far right discursive-institutional tactics in European regional decarbonization
Mothers as Science Storytellers
Climate Change Disinformation and How to Combat It
Climate Obstruction in the Digital Far-Right
Contestation and Resilience in the Liberal International Order
Ideological drivers of climate obstruction and delay
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The European Parliament’s shifting perspectives on climate justice with regard to China and India
Energy community practice in Greece
Is far-right ecologism going mainstream? A comparison of right-wing groups in the European Parliament
Green Is the New Bad Libertarian Populism and the Edgar Friendly Style of Climate Denial
Towards Ego-Ecology? Populist Environmental Agendas and the Sustainability Transition in Europe
Far-right narratives of climate change acceptance and their role in addressing climate skepticism
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From Denial to the Culture Wars
Political ecologies of the far right
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Climate obstruction and nationalism
Apocalyptic Climate Change Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation in White-Nationalist Communities Online
Legally robust, politically fragile? The discursive institutional dilution of conservative climate discourse in UK Net Zero politics (2010–2024)
Populism and the Dismantling of Brazil's Deforestation Oversight Policy
Paleoenvironmental humanities
Climate nationalisms
Introduction to the Special Issue
Right-Wing Psychedelia
Public beliefs and perceptions related to ecofascism
Turn to the right, turn away from the green?—A nuanced analysis on how a populist radical right party affects environmental policy making in Sweden
Norm-Based Governance for Severe Collective Action Problems
How Do Right-Wing Populist Parties Influence Climate and Renewable Energy Policies? Evidence from OECD Countries
Climate change assemblies as spaces for the potential mitigation of climate policy misperceptions
Populism and nature—the nature of populism
Environmental governance under Bolsonaro
Politicians and climate change
This land is our land
Preparing youth for global challenges
Current climate action trends in party‐political manifestos
Power politics
Care and Constraints in the Climate Crisis
Rural communities’ energy metabolisms in Portugal
Wages of Extraction
Common Sense Matters
Retracted
Inhibiting or Contributing? How Global Liberal Forces Impact Climate Change Skepticism
From denial to domestication
The role of trust, information and legal stability in the development of renewable energy
Exploring public opposition and support across different climate policies
Are national climate change mitigation pledges shaped by citizens' mitigation preferences? Evidence from globally representative data
The climate atrocity paradigm
The perfect (shit)storm
Perceptions of degrowth in the European Parliament
Judeo-Christian democracy and the Transatlantic Right
Intersecting identities
Conflicted by conservatism? Exploring authoritarian values, climate politics, and alternative energy funding public opinion in the United States
China's Climate Grand Propaganda on Social Media and Mass Media
Energy justice without democracy? Energy transitions in the era of right-wing authoritarianism in Hungary
Jolts at the ballot box
Dynamics of Electoral Polarisation in Climate Policy Discourse
Episodic populist backlashes against urban climate actions
A broadening agenda? Southern European far-right campaigns in the 2024 European Parliament elections
Selective intersectionality
The European Green Deal and the peasant cause
De/legitimising EUrope through the performance of crises
Communitarians, cosmopolitans, and climate change
Weathering growing polarization? The European Parliament and EU foreign climate policy ambitions
Nationalist ideology, rightwing populism, and public views about climate change in Europe
Scepticisms and beyond? A comprehensive portrait of climate change communication by the far right in the European Parliament
Far-right against green
Do Politicians Appeal to Discrete Emotions? The Effect of Wind Turbine Construction on Elite Discourse
Voting and Climate Change
Climate refugees
Fear, Hope, and Covid‐19
The blurred lines between center-right and far-right
Ideological backtracking in ethnic parties
The politics of domestic climate governance
Quick and dirty
Living in a Post-material World? Assessing the Impact of Economic and non-Economic Shifts on the Success of the German Greens
Global warming and polarization. Wind turbines and the electoral success of the greens and the populist radical right
Activism in the era of democratic backsliding
A Party that Went Viral? The Drivers of Support for the Parti Conservateur du Québec in the 2022 Election
Hope dies – Action begins
Climate policy expertise in times of populism - knowledge strategies of the AfD regarding Germany's climate package
Anti-environmentalism and proto-authoritarian populism in Brazil
Politicizing climate change in times of populism
Process skeptical populist framing of climate change in right-leaning media
Green nationalism. Climate action and environmentalism in left nationalist parties
Not really concerned? Populist radical right voters and climate change
Same, same but different? How democratically elected right-wing populists shape climate change policymaking
After Christchurch
The Role of Politics in Public Views About Immigrants
Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe
The Far Right and the Environment
Conservative political parties and energy transitions in Europe
‘Climategate’
Climate Change Communication and the Internet
Metaphors in Guardian Online and Mail Online Opinion-page Content on Climate Change
Questioning the Doubt
Climate Skepticism in British Newspapers, 2007–2011
Bearing Witness? Polar Bears as Icons for Climate Change Communication in National Geographic
Being Skeptical? Exploring Far-Right Climate-Change Communication in Germany
The Circulation of Climate Change Denial Online
Embracing and resisting climate identities in the Australian press
Cultural Circuits of Climate Change in U.K. Broadsheet Newspapers, 1985–2003
Political Extremism Predicts Belief in Conspiracy Theories
Why We Disagree about Climate Change
Constructing climate change
Living in the Present
Online communication on climate change and climate politics
The Greening of White Separatism
The Nature of Nationalism
Rethinking “Greening of Hate”
The Relevance of Attitudinal Factors for the Acceptance of Energy Policy Measures
It’s only natural
Cool dudes in Norway
Sustainable energy transformations in an age of populism, post-truth politics, and local resistance
A sustainable myth
Populism, identities and responses to energy infrastructures at different scales in the United Kingdom
Climate change and visual imagery
Discursive Opportunities for the Estonian Populist Radical Right in a Digital Society
An Appraisal of the Radical Animal Liberation Movement in Switzerland
Moral (dis)engagement with anthropogenic climate change in online comments on newspaper articles
What is climate change scepticism? Examination of the concept using a mixed methods study of the UK public
Tools for a new climate conversation
Measuring and modeling Russian newspaper coverage of climate change
Uncertain climate
Cool dudes
Who leads and who follows? The symbiotic relationship between Ukip and the Conservatives – and populism and Euroscepticism
Political ideology and views about climate change in the European Union
Support for European Union Environmental Policy by Citizens of EU-Member and Accession States
The UK Independence Party
What Kind of Party Is the UK Independence Party? The Future of the Extreme Right in Britain or Just Another Tory Party
Giving content to new politics
Solution aversion
Ideological cultures and media discourses on scientific knowledge
A green fatwā? Climate change as a threat to the masculinity of industrial modernity
Austrian Greens
Right-wing populism and the climate change agenda
The organisation of denial
Waxing or waning? The changing patterns of environmental activism
Post-materialism, Religiosity, Political Orientation, Locus of Control and Concern for Global Warming
| Unique citing works | 91 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 15,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 88 |