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The Nordic Resistance Movement, a pan-Nordic neo-Nazi movement in the Nordic countries and a political party in Sweden has been continually described as ecofascist, and have declared themselves as the "new green party" of the Nordics. Switzerland
Feb 21, 2024 · While ecofascism is a global phenomenon, the paper focuses on the Nordic context. Contemporary Nordic ecofascism largely emanates from the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), which accentuates the “holistic” and biologistic ideological tenets of Nazism (Maria Darwish Citation 2021).
the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) aimed at an international audience, and two websites of the American alt-right (Table 1). The ideas that link these seemingly separate extreme-right scenes together are an imagined common white homeland (‘White’ or ‘Nordic’ Europe as “our
This chapter explores the discourse of the most prominent and violent ecofascist, neo-Nazi organization in the Nordic countries in the past decade: the Nordic Resistance Movement (or NRM). More specifically, it examines the weekly NRM podcast Nordisk Frontier, which first aired in 2017, and the 2016 NRM manifesto Our Path: New Politics for New ...
- Nature Rhetoric
- Overconsumption and Overpopulation
- Caring?
In the NRM’s frontstage performance, foundational (neo-)Nazi themes like racism and anti-Semitism are often veiled in neutralising language and deflecting rhetoric. They employ “nature rhetoric” when they discuss difference among humans, exemplified by the quote from point 6’s section “Biological diversity”: The NRM conceptualises the Nordic race a...
The show hosts are concerned with the environmental aspects of overconsumption and overpopulation, which they relate to cosmopolitanism and urbanisation (Darwish, 2018). The hosts discuss overconsumption through a Swedish study on CO2 emissions which found that having less children is good for the environment. They argue that leftist environmentali...
We have seen how the NRM’s care for the environment pushes a racist, sexist and anti-humanist agenda—but is it still care? This section unpacks the deeper layers of ecofascist care. Caring can be understood as an activity aiming to maintain and repair our world, which includes ourselves and the environment which “we seek to interweave in a complex,...
- Maria Darwish
- 2021
Analysis: The linguistic construction of ecofascist ideology in the NRM manifesto The Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen, NRM) is the largest, most active and most violent militant neo-Nazi group that operates across the Nordic countries.
Dec 18, 2022 · 4 Eszter Szenes, “Neo-Nazi Environmentalism: The Linguistic Construction of Ecofascism in a Nordic Resistance Movement Manifesto,” Journal for Deradicalization 27 (2021): 146–192. 5 See e.g. commentary in Sam Moore and Alex Roberts, The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right (New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2022).
