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Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A life of Jorian Jenks

Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A life of Jorian Jenks

Coupland, Philip M.

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right

Biographies GeneralPolitical BiographiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1138688622
ISBN13: 9781138688629
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 19 2016
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The life of Jorian Jenks (1899-1963) has great potential to upset settled assumptions. Why did a sensitive and intelligent　man from a liberal family become a fascist? How did a Blackshirt go green?

The son of an eminent academic, from his childhood onwards Jenks instead longed to farm. Lacking the means to do so, he worked as a farm bailiff and then, in New Zealand, as a government agricultural instructor. Finally, a legacy permitted him to come home and become a tenant farmer. Struggling to survive in the economic depression of the 1930s, he became an author and activist for rural reconstruction. Then, having lost faith in the established parties, he joined the British Union of Fascists. Becoming one of the Blackshirts' leading figures, he was imprisoned without trial during the war. On his release, Jenks returned to the struggle, this time in the cause of ecology, becoming a pioneer of today's organic movement and a founder of the Soil Association.

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