Workshop
Far-right Politics in the Context of the Climate Crisis

REXKLIMA Workshop 2024: Far-right Politics in the Context of the Climate Crisis

by BMBF-funded junior research group "REXKLIMA – Far-right politics versus climate action"

By Invitation Only

Far-right Actors as Environmentalists? (Chair: Manès Weisskircher)

Prophet in the (degrowth) wilderness: storytelling Herbert Gruhl as a far-right environmental lieu de mémoire

Bernhard Forchtner, Leicester

Far-right Environmental Activism in France: Practices and Motivations

Lise Benoist, Uppsala

Authoritarian Resilience: Social-Ecological Experimentation in Civil Society and the Far Right

Hauke Dannemann, Vienna

Far-right Parties and Climate Change – Broader Perspectives (Chair: Uwe Backes)

Climate Coloniality in the Finnish Radical Right's Politics of Climate Obstruction

Sonja Pietiläinen, Oulu

Mainstreaming Climate Obstruction? A Study of Far-Right and Centre-Right Climate Discourses in Austria

Mirjam Gruber, Bolzano

Majority and Minority Nationalist Parties and Climate Change in Europe

Aron Buzogany, Vienna

Far-right Climate Obstruction against “Green” Laws (Chair: Cyrill Otteni)

Escalating Climate Obstruction in Germany: The Heating Law

Vincent August, Berlin

Environmental versus Climate Change? The Far Right's Impact on Wind Power and Mainstream Party’s Climate Obstruction

Elisabeth Oertel, Leonie Singer, Zadekia Krondorfer, Dresden

Climate Obstruction at Work: Right-Wing Populism and the German Heating

Law Tobias Haas, Potsdam

Climate Obstruction and Far-Right Discourses (Chair: Janek Treiber)

Threat and Comfort: The Affective Ambivalence of AfD’s Anti-Climate Discourse

Florian Spissinger

The Far Right against Elon Musk? How Germany’s AfD Mobilizes against Electric Cars

Manuela Beyer, Dresden

The Far Right without Climate – It’s a Thing! (Chair: Felix Schilk)

How (Not) to Explain the Rise of the Far Right: The End Of "Iberia's Exceptionalism" and What It Teaches Us about Far Right Success

Mariana Mendes, Dresden

Challenging Liberal Principles: Understanding of Democracy among Populist Radical Right Youth Leaders in Austria and Germany

Steffen Kailitz, Dresden

Far-right Opposition to Renewable Energy (Chair: Manuela Beyer)

The People Against the Sun? Far-Right Parties' Climate Obstruction in the Context of Solar Energy

Manès Weisskircher, Dresden

It’s Not That Simple! Exploring Climate Change Skepticism and Heterogeneity Among Local Political Elites in Germany

Anne Küppers, Jena

A Right-Wing Energy Transition? The Far-Right Project of the FPÖ in the Context of the Ecological Crisis

Johannes Korak, Jena