Medieval Political Ecologies and Eco-Nationalists: What If Nature Is Cultural? By Antonella Sciancalepore

https://www.academia.edu/40948923/Medieval_Political_Ecologies_and_Eco_Nationalists_What_If_Nature_Is_Cultural?email_work_card=title In this paper, I analyse the discourse of identification between ethnic identity and natural environment of the French far-right ecologist voices, and compare it with similar identification practices in medieval scientific and literary culture. In the late-medieval French romance Perceforest, in particular, we observe a vision of nature that can serve a message of political and cultural conquest. In this paper I demonstrate that this specific political ecology, by imagining nature as a product of human cultural structures and as a witness to human constant migrations, circumvents the attempts to use the environment as a discriminatory weapon against an ethnic/cultural group.