Scholars
Kjell Vowles
Chalmers University of Technology
Based in
Sweden
Europe
Kjell Vowles researches climate change obstruction in connection with far-right nationalism. He has analysed Swedish far-right digital media discourses and has a special interest in the connections between climate change politics and nationalism in general, and especially the overlaps between climate change denialism, misogyny, racism, and hyper-rationality seen within the climate change reactionary movement.
Country(ies) of Specialty
SwedenFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Social movements Social Media Communications researchPublications
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Painter, James, Joshua Ettinger, David Holmes, Loredana Loy, Janaina Pinto, Lucy Richardson, Laura Thomas-Walters, Kjell Vowles, and Rachel Wetts. 2023. ‘Climate Delay Discourses Present in Global Mainstream Television Coverage of the IPCC’s 2021 Report’. Communications Earth & Environment 4 (1): 118. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00760-2.
PhD Thesis
Vowles, Kjell. 2024. Fuelling Denial – The climate change reactionary movement and Swedish far-right media. Gothenburg: Chalmers University of Technology. https://research.chalmers.se/publication/541039
Peer-reviewed Anthology Chapters
Vowles, Kjell, Kristoffer Ekberg, and Martin Hultman. In press. ‘Sweden: The Green Welfare State – Both Progressive and Obstructionist’. In Climate Obstruction across Europe., edited by Robert Brulle. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vowles, Kjell. 2023. ‘Talking Heads and Contrarian Graphs: Televising the Swedish Far Right ’s Climate Denialism’. In Visualising Far-Right Environments: Communication and the Politics of Nature, edited by Bernhard Forchtner, 253–273. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Popular Science Books
Lindvall, Daniel, Kjell Vowles and Martin Hultman. 2020. Upphettning – Demokratin i klimatkrisens tid. Stockholm: Fri tanke.