Contested Climage

 Contested Climate Justice – Challenged Democracy

Noah Marschner, Christoph Richter, Janine Patz, Axel Salheiser (eds.)

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Christoph Richter, Noah Marschner, Janine Patz, Axel Salheiser
Confronting Denial in Mainstream Climate Change Policy Discourse . . . . . . 43
Tracey Skillington
Still Heating: Unfolding a Typology of Climate Obstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman, Kirsti M. Jylhä
Extractivism and Climate Justice in a Context of Political Contestation in
Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Sandra Bhatasara, Admire M. Nyamwanza
Environmental Racism in Colonial Continuity: Extractivism, Socioecological
Crisis and the Mapuche Struggle in Southern Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Anna Landherr, Cristian Alister, Jakob Graf, Dasten Julian, Johanna Sittel
Obstruction, Denialism, and Criticism of Climate Change in Brazil . . . . . . . 109
Cristiana Losekann
How Green and Just? Transition to Renewable Energy in Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Hayriye Özen
Delay, Destruction, and Deception: The Greenwashing of the Japanese
Government and Companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Jusen Asuka
Cold War Environmentalism and Modernity’s Culture Wars: Understanding
the USA Through a Comparison with Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Teresa Ashe

Let Us Stop the Crazy Deal”: Environmentalism and the Green Deal in the
Discourse of the Czech Populist Right-Wing and Far-Right Parties . . . . . . . . 179
Zbyněk Tarant
Spain’s Vox and the “Climate Culture Wars”: The Role of Political Influencers
on YouTube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Lluis de Nadal
Countercultural Denial in the UK: “New” Social Movements? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Victoria Esteves
The (In-)Justice League and the Battle of the Climate Narratives: An
Ethnographic Study of Climate Policy Skepticism in the Norwegian Paradox 221
Marthe Elden Wilhelmsen
Climate of Regression: Public Climate Attitudes and Radical Right Anti-
Climate Mobilization in the Battle Around the Green Transition in Germany 235
Christoph Richter, Axel Salheiser, Noah Marschner, Janine Patz
Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261