TY - JOUR
T1 - What Does “Environmental Populism” Mean?
T2 - Mapping the Existing Debate and a Plea for Dropping this Label
AU - Sconfienza, Umberto Mario
PY - 2022/9/6
Y1 - 2022/9/6
N2 - The current article brings together and reviews the literature on “environmental populism”; that is, environmental issues that could be explored through a populist frame. The article reviews four different cases of environmental populism: (i) right-wing populism and climate denial, (ii) resource populism, (iii) eco-populism, and (iv) the populism of environmental movements. For each case, the article analyzes how different theories of populism explain the environmental issues under consideration and how the environment is constructed. Lastly, the article argues that these four different cases only share very abstract features between them, and greater clarity would be gained by dropping the “environmental populism” label altogether in favor of “environmental populisms,” in the plural.
AB - The current article brings together and reviews the literature on “environmental populism”; that is, environmental issues that could be explored through a populist frame. The article reviews four different cases of environmental populism: (i) right-wing populism and climate denial, (ii) resource populism, (iii) eco-populism, and (iv) the populism of environmental movements. For each case, the article analyzes how different theories of populism explain the environmental issues under consideration and how the environment is constructed. Lastly, the article argues that these four different cases only share very abstract features between them, and greater clarity would be gained by dropping the “environmental populism” label altogether in favor of “environmental populisms,” in the plural.
KW - environmental populism
KW - resource populism
KW - eco-populism
KW - Greta Thunberg
KW - extinction Rebellion
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139005360&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/8f43d34f-0c24-3c3f-84ea-5cb921584a50/
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1163/25888072-bja10035
DO - https://doi.org/10.1163/25888072-bja10035
M3 - Article
SN - 2588-8064
VL - 5
SP - 209
EP - 235
JO - Populism
JF - Populism
IS - 2
ER -