Dead White men vs. Greta Thunberg: Nationalism, Misogyny, and Climate Change Denial in Swedish far-right Digital Media

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q2 WOMENS STUDIES

Australian Feminist Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI:10.1080/08164649.2022.2062669

Kjell Vowles, Martin Hultman

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In the autumn of 2018 Greta Thunberg started her school strike. Soon she and the Fridays For Future-movement rose to world-fame, stirring a backlash laying bare the intrinsic climate change denial of Swedish far-right digital media. These outlets had previously been almost silent on climate change, but in 2019, four of the ten most read articles on the site Samhällsnytt were about Thunberg, all of them discrediting the movement and spreading doubt about climate science. Using the conceptualisation of industrial/breadwinner masculinities as developed by Hultman and Pulé [2018. Ecological Masculinities: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Guidance. Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments. New York: Routledge], this article analyses what provoked this reaction. It explores how the hostility to Thunberg was constructed in far-right media discourse in the years 2018–2019, when she became a threat to an imagined industrial, homogenic and patriarchal community. Using conspiracy theories and historical tropes of irrational femininity, the far right was trying to protect the usually hidden environmental privileges, related to unequal carbon emissions and resource use, that Thunberg and her movement made visible.

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死亡白人vs. Greta Thunberg:瑞典极右翼数字媒体中的民族主义、厌女症和否认气候变化

2018年秋天，Greta Thunberg开始了她的学校罢工。很快，她和“星期五为未来”运动声名鹊起，激起了强烈反对，暴露了瑞典极右翼数字媒体否认气候变化的本质。这些媒体之前对气候变化几乎保持沉默，但在2019年，Samhällsnytt网站上阅读量最高的十篇文章中有四篇是关于滕伯格的，所有这些文章都诋毁了这一运动，并传播了对气候科学的怀疑。利用Hultman和pul[2018]提出的工业/养家糊口的男性气概概念。生态男子气概:理论基础与实践指导。劳特利奇性别与环境研究。纽约:劳特利奇出版社]，本文分析了引发这种反应的原因。它探讨了在2018年至2019年期间，对滕伯格的敌意是如何在极右翼媒体话语中构建起来的，当时她成为了一个想象中的工业、同质和父权社区的威胁。利用阴谋论和非理性女性气质的历史隐喻，极右翼试图保护通常隐藏的环境特权，这些特权与不平等的碳排放和资源利用有关，滕伯格和她的运动让这些特权变得显而易见。

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Australian Feminist Studies WOMENS STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Australian Feminist Studies was launched in the summer of 1985 by the Research Centre for Women"s Studies at the University of Adelaide. During the subsequent two decades it has become a leading journal of feminist studies. As an international, peer-reviewed journal, Australian Feminist Studies is proud to sustain a clear political commitment to feminist teaching, research and scholarship. The journal publishes articles of the highest calibre from all around the world, that contribute to current developments and issues across a spectrum of feminisms.