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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

Far-right articulations of the natural environment : an introduction / Bernhard Forchtner -- The trajectory of far-right populism : a discourse-analytical perspective / Ruth Wodak -- Environmental communication research : origins, development and new directions / Anders Hansen -- "Protecting our green and pleasant land" : UKIP, the BNP and a history of green ideology on Britain's far right / Emily Turner-Graham -- From black to green : analysing Le Front National's 'patriotic ecology' / Salomi Boukala and Eirini Tountasaki -- Environmental politics on the Italian far right : not a party issue / Giorgia Bulli -- Sheep in wolves clothing : the Danish far right and 'wild nature' / Christoffer Kølvraa -- Far-right and climate change denial : denouncing environmental challenges via anti-establishment rhetoric, marketing of doubts, industrial/breadwinner masculinities enactments and ethno-nationalism / Martin Hultman, Anna Björk and Tamya Viinikka -- The allure of exploding bats : the Finns Party's populist environmental communication and the media / Niko Hataka and Matti Välimäki -- The ecological component of the ideology and legislative activity of the Freedom Party of Austria / Kristian Voss -- The environmental communication of Jobbik : between strategy and ideology / Anna Kyriazi -- Is brown the new green? : the environmental discourse of the Czech far right / Zbynek Tarant -- Beyond the 'German forest' : environmental communication by the far right in Germany / Bernhard Forchtner and Özgür Özvatan -- The environment as an emerging discourse in Polish far-right politics / Samuel Bennett and Cezary Kwiatkowski -- In the heartland of climate scepticism : a hyperlink network analysis of German climate sceptics and the US right wing / Jonas Kaiser -- Alt-right ecology : ecofascism and far-right environmentalism in the United States / Blair Taylor -- The rhetorical landscapes of the 'alt right' and the patriot movements : settler entitlement to native land / Kyle Boggs -- Looking back, looking forward : a preliminary conclusion on the far right and its natural environment(s) / Bernhard Forchtner.

'This book opens up new horizons in the sociological study of memory. It is not only a theoretical adventure, trying to push a critical approach to memory studies, going beyond Habermas, but also an empirical study full of insights into the workings and transformations of the collective memories we live with and the claims to know the lessons from the past which arise from them. It is required reading for everybody looking to make sense of the dynamics of everyday discourse and political discourse in present-day societies about their pasts.' - Klaus Eder, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany 'It has almost become cliché to claim to have 'learnt from history' in commemorative rhetoric. But what does this mean? Which lessons are to be taken? And how do these lessons vary when referring to Our or Their past wrongdoing? In this erudite and provocative book, Forchtner outlines and analyses four rhetorics of learning - each of which, whilst presenting history as a teacher, are characterised by different narrative grammars. Lessons from the Past? is vital reading for anyone interested in Memory Studies and the politics of commemoration.' - John E. Richardson, Loughborough University, UK This book reconstructs how claims to know 'the lessons' from past wrongdoings are made useful in the present. These claims are powerful tools in contemporary debates over who we are, who we want to be and what we should do. Drawing on a wide range of spoken and written texts from Austria, Denmark, Germany and the United States, this book proposes an abstract framework through which such claims can be understood. It does so by conceptualising four rhetorics of learning and how each of them links memories of past wrongdoings to opposition to present and future wrongdoings. Drawing extensively on narrative theory, Lessons from the Past? reconstructs how links between past, present and future can be narrativised, thus helping to understand the subjectivities and feelings that these stories facilitate. The book closes by considering if and how such rhetorics might live up to their promise to know 'the lessons' and to enable learning, offering a revised theory of collective learning processes

"Imagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century. It does so by examining the far-right's own cultural commentary through a large collection of its novels, novellas, short stories, and film reviews, illustrating how the 'alternative worlds' articulated in such cultural products convey its ideology. More specifically, the book identifies and analyses four distinct far-right 'cultural imaginaries' - a 'primordial', a 'nostalgic', a 'promethean' and a 'nihilist' one - that each subtly convey different yet linked ideas about space, time, 'race', love and heroic identity. By thereby drawing attention to the 'cultural heterogeneity' of the contemporary far right, Imagining Alternative Worlds offers key insights into the dreams, identities and norms such actors hope will define our future. The book will be of interest to researchers of the far right, of literary, media and communication studies, and of social and cultural history"--