Tero Toivanen

Tero Toivanen examines the role of the far right in the current climate and environmental crisis. He studies the way the far right shapes its political and ideological agenda in a rapidly warming world where societies need to make unprecedented socio-ecological changes to mitigate global heating. To understand the current and future development of the “far-right environmentalism” in more depth, he examines the Finnish far-right’s understanding of nature, ecology, energy, and industrial organisation of nature in a longer historical perspective. He pays particular attention to the national and international crisis periods in which economic and ideological as well as environmental perceptions of political movements often face rapid reassessment. Furthermore, Toivanen analyses the differences and similarities between the environmental conceptions of the Finnish far right and the wider European far-right movement. His project contributes to the understanding of a topical and controversial tradition of environmental thinking as well as its future direction.