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