TY - JOUR

T1 - Green nationalism. Climate action and environmentalism in left nationalist parties

AU - Conversi, Daniele

AU - Friis Hau, Mark

PY - 2021/11/10

Y1 - 2021/11/10

N2 - Climate change is arguably the single most important political issue in the world today. As yet, however, there has been little research on the relationship between climate change and nationalism. In this contribution we investigate the possible existence of a 'green nationalism' among progressive and social democratic sub-state nationalist parties in minority nations. We identify an uncharted rhetorical and ideological continuity between how climate issues are perceived and championed among minority nations across time. This is a clear instance of 'frame bridging', where seemingly disparate policy elements are combined and reinforce one another. We show how sub-state political actors actively seek to use this link with climate-related environmental issues to bridge policy issues. We conclude by cautioning that it is unclear whether this sub-state 'green nationalism' might survive an ascent to statehood, in which state-building and other forms of realpolitik might trump and eclipse environmental concerns.

AB - Climate change is arguably the single most important political issue in the world today. As yet, however, there has been little research on the relationship between climate change and nationalism. In this contribution we investigate the possible existence of a 'green nationalism' among progressive and social democratic sub-state nationalist parties in minority nations. We identify an uncharted rhetorical and ideological continuity between how climate issues are perceived and championed among minority nations across time. This is a clear instance of 'frame bridging', where seemingly disparate policy elements are combined and reinforce one another. We show how sub-state political actors actively seek to use this link with climate-related environmental issues to bridge policy issues. We conclude by cautioning that it is unclear whether this sub-state 'green nationalism' might survive an ascent to statehood, in which state-building and other forms of realpolitik might trump and eclipse environmental concerns.

KW - Climate change

KW - frame analysis

KW - green nationalism

KW - regionalism

KW - ethnopolitics

KW - political parties

U2 - 10.1080/09644016.2021.1907096

DO - 10.1080/09644016.2021.1907096

M3 - Journal article

VL - 30

SP - 1089

EP - 1110

JO - Environmental Politics

JF - Environmental Politics

SN - 0964-4016

IS - 7

ER -