Populist Ecologies

The current resurgence of populist nationalism is as much an ecological phenomenon as a political, social, and economic one. In recent years, geographers have shown increased interest in the interrelationship between authoritarian populism and environmental governance, furthering understanding of what can be labeled “populist ecologies.” As geographers seek to understand how populism is reshaping humanities' relationship with nature, they question both the meaning of populism and that of nature, examining how populisms shape, and are shaped by, the increasingly ubiquitous scientific, political, and popular debates on socioecological degradation and sustainable futures in the Anthropocene.