1st Edition

The Populist Logic on the Environment

92 Pages
by Routledge

92 Pages
by Routledge

92 Pages
by Routledge

The Populist Logic on the Environment provides a framework that draws from populism’s essence to explain populist politicians’ approaches to the environment. Over the past few decades, populism has spread across the world – particularly in Europe, but also notably in the US, South America, and Asia. Its essential features – especially its ideological 'thinness' – mean that we can observe... Read more

Introduction: The Rise of Populism and the Environmental Question

 

Chapter 1.  The Limits of the Existing Research on Populism and the Environment

 

Chapter 2.  A Framework for the Populist Logic on the Environment

 

Chapter 3.  Methodology

 

Chapter 4.  Right-Wing and Pro-Environment in France: National Rally's Nationalistic Green Localism

 

Chapter 5.  Right-Wing and Anti-Environment in the US: Trump’s ‘America First’ Populism

 

Chapter 6.  Left-Wing and Pro-Environment in Spain: Podemos’s Bottom-Up Agenda

 

Chapter 7. Left-Wing and Anti-Environment in Venezuela: Chávez’s and Maduro’s Anti-Capitalist Resource Nationalism

 

Chapter 8.  Reflections on the Populist Approach to the Environment: Present and Futures

 

References

Biography

Francesco Duina is Charles A. Dana Professor in the Department of Sociology, and Social Sciences Division Chair, at Bates College, USA.

Hermione Xiaoqing Zhou is a PhD student in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, USA.