Playing with fear: Analysing eco-fascist narratives and their normalisation in political and public discourse

该项目直接与“公民社会、发展和民主”之路对话。今天自由民主社会面临的主要挑战之一是民粹主义和极右翼运动的兴起，这些运动一直在利用越来越微妙的信息来宣传反民主和仇外价值观。该项目通过审查如何调动围绕气候变化和环境承载能力的看似毫无问题的关切来推进反移民政策和情绪，有助于应对这一紧迫的挑战。因此，生态法西斯主义运动的兴起提出了关于全球环境危机和西方民主倒退的交集的紧迫的智力问题，到目前为止，这些问题基本上还没有得到回答。同样，这个项目可以为反移民团体的话语转变带来新的见解，但也可以产生他们现在运作的观念范围。

This project speaks directly to the "Civil Society, Development, andDemocracy" pathway. One of the major challenges confronting liberaldemocratic societies today is the rise of populist and far-right movements,which have been using increasingly subtle messaging to advanceanti-democratic and xenophobic values. This project contributes tounderstanding this pressing challenge by examining how seeminglyunproblematic concerns surrounding climate change and environmentalcarrying capacity can be mobilized to advance anti-migration policies andsentiments. The rise of eco-fascist movements therefore raises pressingintellectual questions about the intersections of global environmental crisisand democratic backsliding in the West, which have, as yet, gone largelyunanswered. Equally, this project can yield novel insights into shiftingdiscourses of anti-migrant groups, but also the ideational confines withinwhich they now operate.