Green Nationalism, Dissensus, and Denormalisation
摘要
This chapter explores how far-right political parties and affiliated organisations in Europe integrate environmental themes into their messaging, often through the lens of far-right green nationalism, which frames nature conservation as an expression of national identity. These groups attribute environmental crises to overpopulation and migration, shifting blame onto marginalised communities while overlooking the systemic drivers of ecological degradation. They romanticise pre-industrial landscapes and advocate for racially homogeneous societies, portraying aspects of modernity as threats to both cultural traditions and ecological integrity. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s concept of now-time and Jacques Rancière’s theories of dissensus and denormalisation, this chapter examines how far-right actors manipulate environmental discourse to promote exclusionary political agendas. In a ‘post-truth’ era characterised by widespread distrust in expertise and institutional knowledge, these groups exploit anti-intellectual sentiment to spread counterfactual claims about climate change and other environmental issues, framing them in ways that resonate with their ideological base. While their rhetoric may appear to challenge capitalist and environmental orthodoxies, it ultimately reinforces existing power structures and ethnonationalist agendas.