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In 2007, Arnold Schwarzenegger received the European Campaigner of the Year award. Chosen by the readers of European Voice for his work on solving global environmental problems, he was hailed as a visionary environmental hero, at the pinnacle of his popularity as a politician. In Sweden the public was told to follow his lead and politicians were advised to learn from his example. How could this happen? How could Schwarzenegger be portrayed as an environmental role model, even in countries such as Sweden, a country known around the world for progressive policies in gender equality and the environment? This paper introduces and investigates the notion of 'ecomodern masculinity,' through the assemblage of Schwarzenegger's gender identity, environmental politics, and image in Sweden. While there has been research on gender inequity in relation to environmental and developmental goals, there has been little concern with constructions of how shifting hegemonic masculinity is embedded in environmental policy. As former California governor, actor, and Mr. Universe, Schwarzenegger's connection to the ecomodern politics that he prescribed is researched within a framework combining insights from the fields of gender and environmental studies. Ecomodern environmental politics and Kindergarten Commando masculinity are understood as attempts to incorporate and deflect criticism in order to perpetuate hegemony, to ensure that practices remain in effect, 'business as usual.' By looking at the historical changes in Schwarzenegger's identity intertwined with the rise of ecomodern discourse, this article illustrates those changes and broadens our understanding of global politics in the fields of energy and the environment.

1. Introduction : discourses of climate change and global environmental politics -- 2. The discourse of Industrial Fatalism -- The Green Keynesian discourse -- 4. Eco-socialist discourse -- 5. The Climate Sceptic discourse -- 6. The UN conference in Copenhagen and beyond -- 7. Apocalyptic framing and conservative action? A concluding discussion.

"This book demonstrates the media's role in the creation of dominant discourses on climate change and examines the arguments made by political actors in the mass media arena. Using in-depth empirical research of Sweden, a country considered by the international political community to be a frontrunner in tackling climate change, the book analyses the worldwide climate change debate. This highly original and detailed study focuses on opinion leaders and the way discourses are framed in the climate change debate, making it valuable reading for students and scholars of environmental communication and media as well environmental policy and politics"--

"This book demonstrates the media's role in the creation of dominant discourses on climate change and examines the arguments made by political actors in the mass media arena. Using in-depth empirical research of Sweden, a country considered by the international political community to be a frontrunner in tackling climate change, the book analyses the worldwide climate change debate. This highly original and detailed study focuses on opinion leaders and the way discourses are framed in the climate change debate, making it valuable reading for students and scholars of environmental communication and media as well environmental policy and politics"--

Abstract
The final years of the 2010s marked an upturn in coverage on climate change. In Sweden, legacy media wrote more on the issue than ever before, especially in connection to the drought and wildfires in the summer of 2018 and the Fridays for Future movement started by Greta Thunberg. Reporting on climate change also reached unprecedented levels in the growingly influential far-right media ecosystem; from being a topic discussed hardly at all, it became a prominent issue. In this study, we use a toolkit from critical discourse analysis (CDA) to research how three Swedish far-right digital media sites reported on climate during the years 2018–2019. We show how the use of conspiracy theories, anti-establishment rhetoric, and nationalistic arguments created an antagonistic reaction to increased demands for action on climate change. By putting climate in ironic quotation marks, a discourse was created where it was taken for granted that climate change was a hoax.

The present article is concerned with the nexus of masculinities and environment. The authors present their critical analyses of two configurations of masculinities the authors refer to as 'industrial/breadwinner' and 'ecomodern' masculinities that dominate politics worldwide. The authors stated their opinion on the fact that the first two configurations of masculinities are acutely but distinctly in conflict with the wellbeing of the planet. The paper presents an empirical and theoretical analysis of 'ecological masculinities', which considers the insights and limitations of masculinities studies, deep ecology, ecological feminism and feminist care theory. In this article, the authors focus their attention on the necessity of ecologisation of masculinities as well as on the need for men and masculinities to 'ecologise' relationally and create more caring encounters with self and others. In support of the need in a transition from hegemonisation to ecologisation, necessary configurations beyond the constraints of industrial/breadwinner and ecomodern masculinities are presented. The authors also argue that the potential to expose and resolve the anthropocentric discord between Earth, others and human beings is possible within the very constructs of manhood. The notion of ecological masculinities suggested in the article is a constructive response to the roles of men and masculine identities in the Anthropocene. The exit politics central to the notion of ecological masculinities represent a theoretical framework and plurality of practices reflective of a masculine ecologisation process. The authors encourage scholarly masculinities inquiries and practices towards broader, deeper and wider care for the 'glocal' (global and local) commons.

1. Burning (and Drowning) in a Hell of Our Own Making -- INTRODUCTION -- 2. Conversations at the Table -- DISCUSSION 1: Movements - Masculinities in Transition -- 3. After the Fires: Thoughts on Masculinities, the Sociocene,and Environmental Struggle -- 4. Masculinity, Nature, Ecofeminism, and the "Anthropo"cene -- 5. Masculinities, Nature, and Vulnerability: Towards a Transcorporeal Poetics in Washington Irving and Walt Whitman -- DISCUSSION 2: Thoughts – Conceptual Developments -- 6. Island Kings: Imperial Masculinity and Climate Fragilities -- 7. The Process of Ecologisation: Is Schwarzenegger Back to Teach Us Something New? -- 8. Nature, Masculinities, Care, and the Far-Right -- 9. Fuelling Conservation EcoAnxieties: Pumping and Trumping Tensions Between Industrial/Breadwinner and Ecomodern American Masculinities, 2008-2013 -- DISCUSSION 3: Spaces – Sites for Synthesis -- 10. Ecomasculinity, Livelihood Security, Caring, and Resilience in the Aftermath of Disasters and Ecological Devastation -- 11. Masculinisation and solation of the Swedish Anti-nuclear Movement After 1980:A Call for Environmentalists to Learn From the Past -- 12. Masculinity, Work, and the Industrial Forest in the U.S. Pacific Northwest -- 13. Re-negotiating Rural Masculinities as Vulnerability: Cattle Ranchers in Climate Change Affected Rural Nicaragua -- 14. Doing Gender by Not Doing Gender in Eco-communities: Masculine Identity Talk Within a "Gender-Neutral" Worldview -- DISCUSSION 4: Embodiments – Visceral Transformations -- 15. Vegan Men: Towards Greater Care for (Non)human Others,Earth, and Self -- 16. "Desire to be Connected to Nature": Materialism and Masculinity in YouTube Videos by Salomon -- 17. Expressing Resignation and Nostalgia as/for Ecological Masculinities:Japanese Male Writers' Responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake -- 18. Cultivated/ing Masculinities in William Shakespeare's Cymbeline -- DISCUSSION 5: Narratives – When Facts Meet Fictions -- 19. Ecomasculinity, Ecomasculinism, and the Superhero Genre: Alan Moore's Swamp Thing -- 20. How CanFiction Help Raise Ecological Awareness? Ecological masculinities in The Space Merchants -- 21. Coyote Practices: Ecomasculinities in Postmodern U.S. Literature -- 22. The Eco(centric) Border Man: Masculinities and the Nonhuman in Jim Lynch's Border Songs -- 23. Men, Individualism, and Process: A Pardoner's tale -- DISCUSSION 6: Futures – Masculinities Beyond Fossil Fuels -- 24. Excuse Us, While We Fix the Sky: WEIRD Supermen and Climate Intervention -- 25. Queering the Climate -- 26. From Ecomasculinity to Profeminist Environmentalism: Recreating Men's Relationship with Nature -- 27. Diving with Ecobutches and Ecological Feminist Futures: The Matrix of Deep Time, Keening Earth Grief, Queer Kinship and Possibility World-weaving -- CONCLUSION -- 28. Going Forth with Gusto and Grace.

Women were, for a long time, not welcome in the energy debate or in the energy sector in Sweden. However, during the 1970s feminist actors influenced and made important changes in Swedish energy politics. In the beginning of the decade, Member of Parliament Birgitta Hambraeus brought nuclear resistance into the Swedish Parliament. On September 26, 1979, the Women's March against nuclear power took place in more than 100 locations around Sweden. This was one of the more visible signs of how influential feminists presented the anti-nuclear struggle as a crucial women's issue. In this article, we analyze the rise and mobilization of feminist engagement in energy politics in Sweden during the 1970s. The purpose is to focus on women's engagement, the feminist arguments and strategies based on their commitment to a society based on renewable energy and against nuclear power. We do this by using archive material, political documents and qualitative interviews. ; Per molto tempo le donne in Svezia non vennero accolte volentieri nel dibattito sull'energia, né nel settore energetico. Ad ogni modo, durante gli anni Settanta alcune attiviste femministe influenzarono e determinarono cambiamenti importanti nella politica svedese dell'energia. All'inizio del decennio, Birgitta Hambraeus introdusse la resistenza contro il nucleare nel parlamento svedese. Il 26 settembre 1979, in oltre cento località svedesi ebbe luogo la Marcia delle donne contro l'energia nucleare. Fu uno dei segni più evidenti di come alcune femministe influenti presentassero la battaglia contro il nucleare come un tema cruciale per le donne. In questo articolo analizziamo la nascita e le mobilitazioni dell'impegno femminista nelle politiche energetiche nella Svezia degli anni Settanta. Il nostro obiettivo è quello di mostrare l'attivismo delle donne, i discorsi femministi e le strategie basati sul loro impegno verso una società caratterizzata dall'energia rinnovabile, e contraria all'energia nucleare. A tale scopo utilizziamo materiali d'archivio, documenti politici e interviste qualitative.