Illiberal Environmentalism: A Trans-European History of Ideas

CEMES & CSGN Spring 2026 Lecture Series talk with Associate Professor Aron Buzogány, BOKU University Vienna.

Although far-right actors are generally regarded as deniers of anthropogenic climate change, recent years have seen notable discursive shifts: while the impending ecological crisis is increasingly acknowledged, it is simultaneously being ideologically reinterpreted.

In this context, intellectual proponents of the New Right play a particularly important role. The talk aims to trace the diversity of the intellectual-historical traditions of “far-right ecologism” (Lubarda 2020) in Europe, using Germany, France, and Hungary as illustrative cases.

Discussant: Tenure Track Assistant Professor Fábio Santos, University of Copenhagen.

Bio

Aron Buzogány is Associate Professor for Political Science at BOKU University Vienna and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. His research focuses on policy-making in the EU – and its contestations. 

About the series

The Spring 2026 Lecture Series focus on the topic 'The European Far Right in a Transnational Perspective'. The series is organised by Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES) and Centre for the Study of Global Nationalisms (CSGN).