Environmentalism on the American Extreme Right
American right-wing extremists have rarely explicitly stated environmental policies. However, they have exhibited implicit environmentalism. It has resulted from a fusion of three factors: an intense distaste for cities; a belief in the supremacy of small social and governmental units; and the self-...
| Subtitles: | "Special Issue: Religion, Environment, and the Political Right" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
2024
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Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2024, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Pages: 413-429 |
| Further subjects: | B
Environmentalism
B Extremism B Survivalism B Nativism B White homeland B Radical right |
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| Summary: | American right-wing extremists have rarely explicitly stated environmental policies. However, they have exhibited implicit environmentalism. It has resulted from a fusion of three factors: an intense distaste for cities; a belief in the supremacy of small social and governmental units; and the self-sufficiency known as survivalism. These result in a romantic nostalgia for an agrarian, pre-industrial past when current environmental problems did not exist. The most extreme extension of this mode of thinking is the radical right's belief in the creation of a "white homeland" in the Pacific Northwest. Religion does not affect the character of the implicit environmentalism surveyed here but is evident in extremists' millenarian or utopian ideas about the future. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-4915 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.23702 |