Introduction: Entanglements of Anti-Feminism and Anti-Environmentalism in the Far-Right. Issue 110 (2nd October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Barla, Josef; Bjork-James, Sophie
• Is Part Of: Australian feminist studies. Volume 36:Issue 110(2021)
• Page Start: 377
• Page End: 387
• Publication Date: 2021-10-02
• Subjects: Anti-feminism -- climate change -- far-right -- misogyny -- white hegemonic masculinities; Feminism -- Periodicals; Feminism -- Australia -- Periodicals; Women's studies -- Periodicals; Women's studies -- Australia -- Periodicals; 305.42
• DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2022.2062668
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0816-4649

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay introduces the special issue of Australian Feminist Studies on 'Climate Change, Gender, and Authoritarianism: Entanglements of Anti-Feminism and Anti-Environmentalism in the Far-Right'. Starting from the hypothesis that anti-feminism functions as a metalanguage in the far-right's fight against liberal democracy as well as social and environmental justice, this special issue explores how anti-feminism and anti-environmentalism merge and inform one another in contemporary far-right discourses and politics on climate change. Focusing on the connections that form the tissue of far-right imaginaries of sex, gender, race, and the nation in the context of the simultaneous dismissal and mobilisation of ecological issues, a broad picture of the state of research on the entanglement of anti-feminism and anti-environmentalism in the far-right will be laid out. In doing so, this special issue aims at providing us with a much-needed insight into the gendered and racialised political ecology of the contemporary far-right.