New Social Movements Class And The Environment

Author : John-Henry Harter
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781443830140

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New Social Movements, Class, and the Environment by John-Henry Harter Pdf

New Social Movements, Class, and the Environment explores the history of Greenpeace Canada from 1971 to 2010 and its relationship to the working class. In order to understand the ideology behind Greenpeace, the author investigates its structure, personnel, and actions. The case study illustrates important contradictions between new social movement theory and practice and how those contradictions affect the working class. In particular, Greenpeace’s actions against the seal hunt, against forestry in British Columbia, and against its own workers in Toronto, demonstrate some of the historic obstacles to working out a common labour and environmental agenda. The 1970s saw an explosion of new social movement activism. From the break up of the New Left into single issue groups at the end of the 1960s came a multitude of groups representing the peace movement, environmental movement, student movement, women’s movement, and gay liberation movement. This explosion of new social movement activism has been heralded as the age of new radical politics. Many theorists and activists saw, and still see, new social movements, and the issues, or identities they represent, as replacing the working class as an agent for progressive social change. This paper examines these claims through a case study of the quintessential new social movement, Greenpeace.

Author : Philip W. Sutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351765237

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Explaining Environmentalism by Philip W. Sutton Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: The author examines those current theories which purport to explain the emergence and character of 'new' social movements in the 'advanced' industrial societies since the 1960s. In particular, it sets out to test the efficacy of these explanations in relation to the history of the environmental movement in Britain. The book breaks new ground in bringing together both short-term and the more historically orientated long-term explanations into a single volume, thus providing an invaluable resource for students of social movements. Its critical exposition of major theories also points to the need for a more developmental approach which seeks to connect old and new movement forms, thus allowing for a more balanced evaluation of the potential of the environmental movement to bring about significant social change.

Author : Elia Apostolopoulou,Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429763090

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The Right to Nature by Elia Apostolopoulou,Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez Pdf

Since the 2008 financial crash the expansion of neoliberalism has had an enormous impact on nature-society relations around the world. In response, various environmental movements have emerged opposing the neoliberal restructuring of environmental policies using arguments that often bridge traditional divisions between the environmental and labour agendas. The Right to Nature explores the differing experiences of a number of environmental-social movements and struggles from the point of view of both activists and academics. This collection attempts to both document the social-ecological impacts of neoliberal attempts to exploit non-human nature in the post-crisis context and to analyse the opposition of emerging environmental movements and their demands for a radically different production of nature based on social needs and environmental justice. It also provides a necessary space for the exchange of ideas and experiences between academics and activists and aims to motivate further academic-activist collaborations around alternative and counter-hegemonic re-thinking of environmental politics. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and activists interested in environmental policy, environmental justice, social and environmental movements.

Author : Robert Hugh MacDermid,Michael Stevenson,York University (Toronto, Ont.). Institute for Social Research
Publisher : [North York, Ont.] : Institute for Social Research, York University
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 1550141651

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Identification with New Social Movements by Robert Hugh MacDermid,Michael Stevenson,York University (Toronto, Ont.). Institute for Social Research Pdf

Author : Clare Saunders
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849664875

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Environmental Networks and Social Movement Theory by Clare Saunders Pdf

Clare Saunders' book is an important contribution to the literature on social movements and environmentalism. Using the concept of 'environmental networks', it explores the extent to which social movement theory helps us understand how a broad range of environmental organizations interact. It considers the practicalities of social movement theories and it goes on to relate them to the practices of environmental networks. Theoretically and empirically rich, the book draws on extensive survey material with 144 UK environmental organizations, as diverse as not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) groups, reformists, conservationists and radicals; interviews with more than 40 key campaigners and extensive participant-observation, particularly in London. Focussing particularly on the crucial question of networking dynamics, the book reveals that there are broad ranging network links across the movements' spatial and ideological dimensions. Combined with inevitable ideological clashes and a degree of sectarian rivalry, these links helps produce vibrant environmental networks that together work to protect and/or preserve the environment. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with environmental issues, politics and movements.

Author : John S. Dryzek,David Downes,Christian Hunold,David Schlosberg,Hans-Kristian Hernes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191530302

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Green States and Social Movements by John S. Dryzek,David Downes,Christian Hunold,David Schlosberg,Hans-Kristian Hernes Pdf

Social movements take shape in relation to the kind of state they face, while over time states are transformed by the movements that they both incorporate and resist. Green States and Social Movements is a comparative study of the environmental movement's successes and failures in four very different states: the USA, UK, Germany and Norway. The history covers the entire sweep of the modern environmental era that begins in 1970. The end in view is a green transformation of the state and society on a par with earlier transformations that gave us first the liberal capitalist state and then the welfare state. The authors explain why such a transformation is now most likely in Germany, and why it is least likely in the United States, which has lost the status of environmental pioneer that it gained in the early 1970s. Their comparative analysis also explains the role played by social movements in making modern societies more deeply democratic, and yields insights into the strategic choices of environmental movements as they decide on what terms to engage, enter or resist the state. Sometimes it makes sense for a movement to act conventionally, as a green party or set of interest groups. But sometimes inclusion can mean co-optation, in which case a movement can instead emphasize action in and through civil society.

Author : Brian K. Obach
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262263998

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Labor and the Environmental Movement by Brian K. Obach Pdf

Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the specter of job loss invoked by industries facing environmental regulation. But, as Brian Obach shows, the two largest and most powerful social movements in the United States actually share a great deal of common ground. Unions and environmentalists have worked together on a number of issues, including workplace health and safety, environmental restoration, and globalization (as in the surprising solidarity of "Teamsters and Turtles" in the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle). Labor and the Environmental Movement examines why, when, and how labor unions and environmental organizations either cooperate or come into conflict. By exploring the interorganizational dynamics that are crucial to cooperative efforts and presenting detailed studies of labor-environmental group coalition building from around the country (examining in detail examples from Maine, New Jersey, New York, Washington, and Wisconsin), it provides insight into how these movements can be brought together to promote a just and sustainable society. Obach gives a brief history of relations between organized labor and environmental groups in the United States, explores how organizational learning can increase organizations' ability to work with others, and examines the crucial role played by "coalition brokers" who maintain links to both movements. He challenges research that attempts to explain inter-movement conflict on the basis of cultural distinctions between blue-collar workers and middle-class environmentalists, providing evidence of legal and structural constraints that better explain the organizational differences class-culture and new-social-movement theorists identify. The final chapter includes a model of the crucial determinants of cooperation and conflict that can serve as the basis for further study of inter-movement relations.

Author : Howard Ramos,Kathleen Rodgers
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774829182

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Protest and Politics by Howard Ramos,Kathleen Rodgers Pdf

The Tea Party. The Occupy Movement. Idle No More. Around the world, popular social movements are challenging the status quo. Yet most democracies are seeing a decline in voter turnout. Protest and Politics examines this shift in political participation, as well as the blurring of social movements and mainstream politics, through the lens of the social movement society thesis. Analyzing historical and contemporary social movements in Canada in comparison to those in the US and in the transnational sphere, the authors argue that our understanding of the boundaries between politics and protest needs to evolve.

Author : Chris Rootes
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0714680664

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Environmental Movements by Chris Rootes Pdf

A special issue of the journal Environmental Politics, vol. 8, no. 1, Spring 1999.

Author : Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300105045

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How Class Works by Stanley Aronowitz Pdf

Although Americans like to believe that they live in a classless society, Stanley Aronowitz demonstrates that class remains a potent force. Defining class as the power of social groups to make a difference, he explains that social groups such as labor movements, environmental activists, and feminists become classes when they make demands that change the course of history. “With How Class Works Aronowitz puts the subject of social class squarely on the intellectual agenda—though in a new, inclusive, and dynamic form. Like his influential False Promises, How Class Works is both intellectually exciting and morally challenging.”—Barbara Ehrenreich “In How Class Works Aronowitz argues for the enduring vitality of the concept of social class as a way of understanding social relations. This is a significant contribution to social theory, an argument certain to be widely considered, debated, and tested.”—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger “An intellectually captivating book on a topic that remains as timely and significant as ever.”—Howard Kimeldorf, University of Michigan

Author : S. Shigetomi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848449404

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Protest and Social Movements in the Developing World by S. Shigetomi Pdf

This is a useful book and an important contribution to the literature on social movements and civil society. . . It will be very helpful for those who understand social movement theory but need an orientation to developing societies. . . This book will also be useful to advanced graduate students in sociology, economics, and political science. The case studies could be excellent teaching tools. This would be a good text for a course on social movements. Protests and Social Movements in the Developing World will add new dimensions to your work on social movements. It is a book that every social movement scholar will want on their bookshelf. John McNutt, Voluntas Protest and Social Movements in the Developing World is aimed at scholars and social movement activists. Its innovative framework brings a fresh angle to the academic debate on social movements, whilst its meticulous empirical detail will appeal to those involved in a wide variety of social movements. In this sense, Protest and Social Movements in the Developing World will enjoy a warm reception amongst its target audience. . . A useful book for those already well versed in this field. World Entrepreneurship Society Shinichi Shigetomi and Kumiko Makino have produced an important book, global in scope and incisive in its analysis of social movements in different parts of the world. It will be a major resource for scholars everywhere. James Midgley, University of California, Berkeley, US In this insightful book, the contributors focus on the impact of contextual factors on social movements in the developing world, pushing major existing theories beyond their traditional focus. With wide coverage of the developing world, leading academics explore a variety of forms and mechanisms of social movement. They present discussions on resource and institutional endowment for mobilization in Colombia and Thailand, and explore the structure behind political opportunities in Argentina, China and South Africa. The history and reality of identity-making in India, Mexico and Nigeria are also examined. Presenting novel analytical frameworks to study social movements in developing countries, this book will be warmly welcomed by academics and researchers with an interest in sociology, development and political science. It will also strongly appeal to social movement activists.

Author : Harley, Anne,Scandrett, Eurig
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447350842

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Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development by Harley, Anne,Scandrett, Eurig Pdf

Struggles for environmental justice involve communities mobilising against powerful forces which advocate ‘development’, driven increasingly by neoliberal imperatives. In doing so, communities face questions about their alliances with other groups, working with outsiders and issues of class, race, ethnicity, gender, worker/community and settler/indigenous relationships. Written by a wide range of international scholars and activists, contributors explore these dynamics and the opportunities for agency and solidarity. They critique the practice of community development professionals, academics, trade union organisers, social movements and activists and inform those engaged in the pursuit of justice as community, development and environment interact.

Author : Savyasaachi,Ravi Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317342052

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Social Movements by Savyasaachi,Ravi Kumar Pdf

This volume attempts to show the emerging contours of ‘transformative action’ in social movements across South Asia. It argues that these contours have been shaped by contestations over questions of equity, justice and well-being on the one hand, and the nature and scope of new and classical social movements on the other. This is manifest in diverse modes through people’s struggles, protest and dissent. The authors examine a variety of themes that have determined the course of the politics of transformative struggles. They critique neoliberalism, ‘primitive’ accumulation, money, class inequalities, as well as aspects of capital–labour conflict. They highlight the contributions of movements by women, dalit and marginalized communities; peace movements; and environmental and agrarian struggles. The volume also appraises the role of internet in grassroots mobilizations and that of civil society networks in the making of participatory democracy. It further argues that the predicaments of cultural, ethnic, national, regional, and linguistic identities are not divorced from capital–labour conflicts. The book will serve as essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, social movements, politics, gender and feminist studies, labour studies, and the informed general reader.

Author : Donatella della Porta,Mario Diani
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405148214

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Social Movements by Donatella della Porta,Mario Diani Pdf

Social Movements is a comprehensive introduction andcritical analysis of collective action in society today. In thisnew edition, the authors have updated all chapters with the mostrecent scientific literature, expanded on topics such as individualmotivations, new media, public policies, and governance. Draws on research and empirical work across the social sciencesto address the key questions in this international field. New edition expands on topics such as individual motivations,new media, public policies, and governance. Has been redesigned in a more user-friendly format.

Author : Hein-Anton van der Heijden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230294691

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Social Movements, Public Spheres and the European Politics of the Environment by Hein-Anton van der Heijden Pdf

This book analyzes how the European environmental movement has influenced the problem definitions and solution strategies of European policy issues, examining biodiversity, GMOs, Trans-European Transport Networks, and climate change.