Vol. 14 No. 2 (2023):
Research Article

‘We Will Protect Our Countryside without a Green Deal’ : The Populist Radical Right and the Environment in Czechia and Slovakia

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Dominik Kevicky
Masaryk University: Brno, CZ
The use of nature in the promotional materials of populist radical right parties. As can be seen, some parties use the same scenic backdrop – the Kriváň hill. Upper is the pamphlet of the ĽSNS (Naše Slovensko, 2021b); below is the propagation material of the Republic (REPUBLIKA, 2022).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.d.kev.14.2.032.043
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Published 2023-06-08

Keywords

  • populist radical right,
  • environment,
  • nationalism,
  • Czechia,
  • Slovakia,
  • globalisation,
  • populism
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Kevicky, Dominik. 2023. “‘We Will Protect Our Countryside Without a Green Deal’ : The Populist Radical Right and the Environment in Czechia and Slovakia”. European Journal of Geography 14 (2):32-43. https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.d.kev.14.2.032.043.

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Received 2023-04-04
Accepted 2023-06-08
Published 2023-06-08

Abstract

The electoral success of the populist radical right parties (PRRPs) is currently increasing across Europe. These parties are also increasingly commenting on environmental issues. On the one hand, the PRRPs highlight the beauty of nature and strive to preserve the landscape’s traditional rural character. On the other hand, PRRRs deny global climate changes and criticise solutions to reverse these, such as the Green Deal. The study aims to explain Czech and Slovak PRRPs attitude towards environmentalism using the concepts of nationalism, globalism, and populism. The empirical analysis is based on analysing official political texts and statements by selected PRRPs in both countries. The results show that Czech and Slovak PRRPs use nature’s aesthetic, symbolic and material aspects to create an image of a traditional, rural country that the nation can be proud of, and which is crucial to protect. In contrast, the PRRPs are ambivalent on global environmental change, the efforts to mitigate it and environmentalists. Finally, the PRRPs use the environmental issue for populist strategic considerations, demonstrating authenticity and creating part of a chain of equivalence.

Research Highlights:

  • The Czech and Slovak PRRPs draw attention to local or national ecological problems
  • The Czech PRRPs associate the environment with criticism of the European Union
  • The Slovak PRRPs linked pollution and nature devastation to the Roma minority
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