Hindu Nationalism and Right-wing Ecology
RSS, Modi and Motherland Post-2014
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6170972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mukul Sharma (0000-0001-8581-4684, Ashoka University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 102-117 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Indian Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2321-0230 • E-ISSN: 2321-7472 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/23210230231166197 |
| OpenAlex | W4380876678 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 19 |
This article analyses the environmental politics of Hindu nationalism in India after 2014, which is deeply enmeshed with aggressive nationalism. Taking as its case study articles, newspaper reports and visuals published in the Organiser, a leading magazine of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), it focuses on four ubiquitous environmental themes—imagination of a great Hindu motherland; icons of mother embodied in river and animal; climate change and renewable energy and the idealization of Prime Minister Modi as an environmental saviour—that are visible in its pages. Through these themes, India is projected as a great ancient ecological Hindu nation while hatred and violence are directed against ‘polluted’ Muslims. The ascendancy of Hindu nationalists to power since 2014 has indeed resulted in radical changes which have signalled multiple governmental ‘green’ initiatives and brought climate change and renewable energy to the centre stage. However, and as this article illustrates, these are couched in an optic of purity and pollution, as well as caste and religion, on the one hand, and mobilization of corporations and mega ‘clean’ industrial projects, on the other, which are propagated in the name of people, development and environment
Caste · Hindu nationalism · Hinduism · Idealization · Media studies · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religious studies
Shifting Terrain of Eco‐Nationalism in India
The Making of “Ecological Criminals”
Maintained disrepair
Media, nationalism, and environmental degradation
Chains of extraction
Toward a Genealogy of Indian Sociology
The meaning of solar energy
The epistemology and ontology of a bhakta
Two Regimes of Waste and Value
This will destroy Jeev and Jantu
Hindu nationalism, climate reductionism, and the political ecology of dalits on Char Islands
Gender Ideology, the Far Right, and LGBTQ Politics
Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence
Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment
More-than-human supremacy
The Far Right and the Environment
The Politics of Fear
Brand New Nation
Neoliberalism, Hindutva and Gender
Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia
Environmentality
Religious Nationalism
The politics of climate change and the global crisis
Strategic clustering in right-wing-populism? ‘Green policies’ in Germany and France
The Abuse of Religion and Ecology
Cool dudes
India after Modi
Nation, nature, purity
Maps and mother goddesses in modern India
The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle [and Comments and Replies]
Ecobordering
The Nation (Un)Pictured? Chromolithography and 'Popular' Politics in India, 1878-1995
Sacred Symbol and Sacred Space in Rural India
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |