Visualising far-right environments : communication and the politics of nature / edited by Bernhard Forchtner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forchtner, Bernhard, editor.

Series:

Global studies of the far right

Global Studies of the Far Right

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual communication--Political aspects.

Visual communication.

Right-wing extremists.

Environmentalism--Political aspects.

Environmentalism.

Nature--Political aspects.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) : illustrations, charts; digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

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

Summary:

"From smiling faces shown next to the nation’s beautiful landscape to the ridiculing of environmental activists and beyond, images play a key role in the communication of the far right’s politics of nature. Not only are images pervasive in our increasingly visual culture, one in which they can be produced and circulated without much cost and expertise – images are also particularly persuasive in proposing worlds to viewers. As such, they are inherently political. Against this background, Visualising Far-Right Environments: Communication and the Politics of Nature makes a first, concerted effort to put visuality centre stage in the analysis of far-right environmental communication. From the countryside to climate change, from populist radical-right parties in the European mainstream to ecofascist tendencies in settler-colonial societies and the Indian far right, this volume includes case studies from around the world. In so doing, the contributions showcase various ways in which the far right articulates the natural environment so that we can better understand the manifold ways in which such politics respond to the rampant environmental crises of the twenty-first century."-- Provided by publisher.

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 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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and e-publication viewed on March 11, 2024.

ISBN:

9781526165398 (electronic book)

9781526165398

1526165392

OCLC:

1405364442