Longing for communal purity: Countryside, (far-right) nationalism and the (im)possibility of progressive politics of Nostalgia

Abstract

Bernhard Forchtner analyses the discourse on environmental crises by the British National Party. While both environmental crises, as well as the rise of the farright, have been extensively discussed, academic and public debates have seldom asked how the environment is appropriated by contemporary far-right actors, for example, through nostalgically constructing rural harmony and communal purity in facilitating attacks on commodification and the logic of the market.