Week in review for Environmental Politics
The Friday Post
Welcome to the Environmental Politics weekly Substack post, where we round up everything we have published that week, across both our journal and website.
This week we have published a new article and a book review.
The article is: What explains the relationship between populist radical right attitudes and opposition to climate policy?: structural vs. ideological factors by Håkon Grøn Sælen & Aaron M. McCright. It finds that people with populist radical right attitudes appear to oppose climate policy due to ideological reasons more than due to concern with the structural impacts of policy. Opposition is more strongly linked with nativist attitudes than with populist attitudes.
Then, Eric Swyngedouw has reviewed the book Climate change mitigation and the European Union: a Lacanian exploration of desire and enjoyment by Valeria Tolis. He writes that the book’s “key strength resides in examining the flaws, contradictions, and inconsistencies that mark the European Union’s (but the argument could easily apply to other contexts too) climate discourses and associated practices.”
More to come next week!
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