Abstract
Abstract
To justify the hardening of borders the populist radical right sometimes uses environmental rhetoric to frame
migrants as a threat. The radical right’s environmental politics has been analysed through a focus on state borders, but less
attention has been paid to the (re)production of bordering within and beyond the nation-state and to the racialising effects of
such rhetoric, in other words how racial differences and hierarchies are (re)produced and justified through language on nature.
Drawing on geographical literature on bordering and nationalism and postcolonial theory, this article investigates the semantic
structures that convey the racist messaging. The article argues that the ‘racialized Other’ is bordered from the ’green’ homeland
and Western space by utilising determinist conceptions of nature, through animalistic and environmental disaster metaphors, and by
mobilising an idea of the environmentally conscious Finn as the opposite of the littering migrant.
Funder
Maj ja Tor Nesslingin Säätiö
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Reference98 articles.
1. ‘The Beast Within’: Race, Humanity, and Animality. Environment and Planning D;Anderson;Society and Space,2000
2. Racialized Boundaries
3. Natives and aliens: Who and what belongs in nature and in the nation?
4. Populist ecologies