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Bernhard Forchtner

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Art, Nature and the Exclusion of the Alien

  • Bernhard Forchtner
  • November 6, 2020
In light of escalating environmental crises and radical-right activism around the globe, there has been renewed academic interest in how the radical right engages with environmental issues. These analyses cover…
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Star Trek vs. the Radical Right: Visions of a Better World

  • Bernhard Forchtner
  • November 2, 2020
Science fiction has a long history of progressive politics. Probably the best-known example is the Star Trek franchise that started in the 1960s with an Asian helmsman, a navigator from…
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Eco-fascism ‘proper’: the curious case of Greenline Front

  • Bernhard Forchtner
  • June 25, 2020
Introduction Eco-fascism, mostly associated with the ‘green wing’ in historical National Socialism and neo-Malthusian authoritarians of the 1960s/70s, is an iridescent concept that signifies the preoccupation of extreme-right actors with…
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‘Make ecology right again’: Reading radical right eco-publications

  • Bernhard Forchtner
  • June 12, 2020
While the radical right has long had an ideologically-driven affinity towards environmental protection, the latter has become increasingly associated with the left since the 1970s. However, in recent years, we…
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Fighting ‘the Great Replacement’ in 2020: an Identitarian road trip to Greece and back

  • Bernhard Forchtner
  • March 16, 2020
In the summer of 2017, the radical-right Identitarian Movement (also known as Generation Identity) launched their so-called mission Defend Europe. Chartering a ship, they wished to intervene in and halt…
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Images of a ‘better’ world? Fictional storytelling in the radical-right (Part I)

  • Bernhard Forchtner
  • February 25, 2020
Analysing the radical-right – whether parties, social movements or paramilitary organisations – usually looks at programmatic and doctrinaire material, such as party manifestos or pamphlets. Scrutinising these reveals many facets…
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‘Protect the Environment!’ – Environmental Campaigning by the Radical Right Alternative for Germany

  • Bernhard Forchtner
  • December 23, 2019
By now, the climate-change scepticism of the radical-right, populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is well-known and has been discussed in both academic and non-academic publications. Opposition to the thesis of…
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Something new under the sun? The Alternative for Germany’s recent discussion of climate change and homeland protection

  • Bernhard Forchtner
  • September 26, 2019
Since the May 2019 European Parliament election’s ‘Green wave’ in Germany, where the Green party increased its share of the vote by 9.8 to 20.5 per cent and came second…
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Eco-fascism encountered: the natural environment in justifications of terrorist violence in the Christchurch mosque shooting and the El Paso shooting

  • Bernhard Forchtner
  • August 21, 2019
The murder of 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019 has led to, for example, a gun reform bill in New Zealand and renewed interest in the notion…
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Rethinking the ‘Green wave’? Climate change, the European Parliament elections 2019 and the German-speaking radical right

  • Bernhard Forchtner
  • June 13, 2019
In 2018, following electoral gains made by Democrats during the US midterms, it took commentators a while to figure out whether or not to speak of a ‘blue wave’. In…
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