The People's Climate March: Environmental populism as political genre

Bosworth, Kai

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102281

Cited by 16 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 25 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Indeed, populism can also be linked to positions in favour of climate protection by portraying the people as victims of global corporations that pollute and deplete natural resources (e.g. Bosworth, 2020). In the context of PRRP, some scholars argue 'that sweeping claims that the far right is characterised by a uniform disinterest or unreflective denial of climate change are dangerously inaccurate' (Ruser and Machin, 2019).…”

Section: Ideology and Climate Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Sceptics or Climate Nationalists? Understanding and Explaining Populist Radical Right Parties’ Positions towards Climate Change (1990–2022)

Schwörer

Fernández-García

2023

Political Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Populist radical right parties are often considered to be the most extreme opponents of climate protection in Western Europe. Others predict a ‘climate nationalism’ among populist radical right parties combining nativism with a pro-climate agenda. Based on a new data set on party positions on climate change, including 485 party manifestos – 76 from populist radical right parties – from the 1990s to 2022 in 10 Western European countries, we find that populist radical right parties are divided but generally less likely to speak out for climate protection than other parties, which rather contradicts the climate nationalism argument. We find that populist radical right parties only became more aware of the issue since 2019 in the face of the mass mobilizations of Fridays for Future and, to a lesser extent, when it became a visible issue within the party system. Thus, we argue that populist radical right parties are forced to talk about the climate when the issue is emphasized by organized actors.

show abstract

Section: Ideology and Climate Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Sceptics or Climate Nationalists? Understanding and Explaining Populist Radical Right Parties’ Positions towards Climate Change (1990–2022)

Schwörer

Fernández-García

2023

Political Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Popular opinion on climate change is complicated. There is a strong popular movement in favor of immediate, massive action against climate change (50), but climate mitigation strategies are often used as an excuse for increasing authoritarian or central control. In Myanmar, official strategies to address climate change mitigation and adaptation are a trigger for land grabbing, a tool of legitimization for land grabs, and a tool to delegitimize grassroots efforts to mitigate climate change (51).…”

Section: Borders Frontiers and Zones Of Inclusion/exclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other land defenders fight extractivism with environmental populism as a counterhegemonic movement (50). Popular resistance to the construction of oil pipelines by indigenous communities, environmental activists, and landowners has created broad environmental coalitions that defy class and political factions.…”

Section: Resistancementioning

confidence: 99%

Contemporary Populism and the Environment

Ofstehage

Wolford

Borras³

2022

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This review engages with literature on authoritarian populism, focusing specifically on its relationship to the environment. We analyze hybrid combinations of authoritarianism and populism to explore three themes from the literature: environmental governance, social and political representations of nature, and resistance. In the environmental governance section, we analyze how governments have increasingly resorted to populist politics to expand extractivism; certain commodities with national security implications have become key commodities to be protected; and borders, frontiers, and zones of inclusion/exclusion have become flash points. In the social and political representations of nature section, we analyze settler colonialism and sacrifice zones as organizing principles for relations with the environment. In our final section on resistance, we review literature highlighting pushback to authoritarian populism from peasant, indigenous, and worker movements. Variants of populism and authoritarianism are likely to persist amid increasing competition over resources as components of responses to environmental and climate crisis. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 47 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

show abstract

“…This concerns not only branches of agrarian populism or the early environmental movement in the United States (Meyer 2008). More recently, activists and scholars such K as Chantal Mouffe (2020) have advocated that the new climate movement should embrace pro-environmental populism both to counter anti-environmental populism and to broaden democracy (Beeson 2019;Bosworth 2020;Davies 2020). While disagreeing on the content, left and right-wing populist environmental discourses often overlap when it comes to anti-elitism, the critique of the establishment, and Manichean worldviews.…”

Section: Varieties Of Climate and Environmental Populismsmentioning

confidence: 99%