The reality of global ecological devastation might seem to call for crisis scholarship, where we do everything we can to support the environmental movement. And yet not all environmentalisms are innocent: from eco-fascism to greenwashing and neoliberal conservation, green movements are as divided by the politics of social difference, of nationalism, and of diverse accommodations with capitalism as are other social movements. This book thus offers a critical toolkit for discourse analysts to get to the heart of this complexity. Building on analysis from feminist, queer, anti-racist, Indigenous, and decolonial scholars across disciplines the book contributes new case studies, focused discourse analysis, and an ecointersectional normative framework to map out discursive formations.

Scott Burnett is an assistant professor of African studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the Penn State and a research affiliate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies in Johannesburg. His research focuses on exclusionary discourses of race, gender, and sexuality in a range of contexts from online masculinist influencers to the mainstream environmental movement. He is the author of White belongings: Race, land, and property in post-apartheid South Africa (Lexington, 2022) as well as articles in leading journals including Men and Masculinities and Gender and Language.