6. The Militant Media of Neo-Nazi Environmentalism

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Her research interests lie in the fields of folkloristics, digital humanities and environmental humanities, with specific focus on storytelling, place-making and revitalisation in Indigenous contexts. Her recent publications include 'Reading Small Data in Indigenous Contexts: Ethical Perspectives', in Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities, edited by Griffin and Hayler (2016); 'Mobile Technology in Indigenous Landscapes', in Indigenous People and Mobile Technologies, edited by Dyson, Grant and Hendriks (2016); and 'Indigenous Voices on the Web: Folksonomies and Endangered Languages' published in the Journal of American Folklore in 2015.

Being Skeptical? Exploring Far-Right Climate-Change Communication in Germany

“…Since the 2000s, analyses have, e.g., focused on the extreme-right/neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) and its anti-genetically modified organism stance, the magazine Umwelt & Aktiv (see below for details) and portrayals of völkisch settlers (HBS, 2012; PÖ, 2012). Hurd and Werther (2016), too, analyze materials by the NPD and Umwelt & Aktiv, pointing out the significance of Heimat for the Volk. The authors (ibid., p. 164) argue that these actors' ecocriticism might be more fundamental than that of "the liberal tropes of 'sustainable development'".…”