Farming, fascism and ecology : a life of Jorian Jenks
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Farming, fascism and ecology : a life of Jorian Jenks
（Routledge studies in fascism and the far right）
Routledge, 2017
- : pbk
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"Further reading": p. [293]-294
Includes index
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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.
This book draws on an extensive range of sources, a large proportion of which were previously unseen by historians. For the first time, it portrays the private and public life of this unusual man, revealing many hitherto un-glimpsed facets of Jenks' life.
Table of Contents
Prologue
1. Roots
2. Shoots
3. Agricultural Education
4. Wanderlust
5. London Interlude
6. Superphosphate
7. A Small Legacy
8. Devon
9. An Interesting South-Coast Farm
10. Farming and Money
11. Another Cobbett
12. The Land and the People
13. Pigs and Pen
14. A Farmer's Philosophy
15. War
16. 18B / 2732
17. J.J. Zeal
18. The Rural Reconstruction Association
19. Church and Countryside
20. Untouchable
21. Through the Tunnel
22. The Organic Movement
23. 'A Young Plant of Great Promise'
24. Resurrection of the RRA
25. The Soil Association
26. From the Ground Up
27. Rural Economy Ltd
28. Feeding the Fifty Million
29. The Whole Works
30. Return
Epilogue. Jorian Jenks' Legacy: Green and Black
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