Acting Locally (eBook, ePUB)

Local Environmental Mobilizations and Campaigns
Redaktion: Rootes, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Until now, local environmental campaigns have been relatively neglected in the scientific literature. Drawing on European examples, this book fills the gap by examining the networks amongst actors and organizations which connect local campaigns to the larger environmental movement and political systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317968719
• Artikelnr.: 39912623

Autorenporträt

Christopher Rootes is Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Local Environmental Mobilizations 2. Still the Time of
Environmental Movements? Environmental Organizational Fields in Britain and
Italy 3. Local Contention, Global Framing: The Protest Campaigns against
the TAV in Val de Susa and the Bridge on the Messina Straits 4. From Larzac
to the Altermondialist Mobilization: Space in Environmental Movements 5.
Networking the Local and the National: Environmental Activists and
Campaigns in London 6. Local Environmental Protest in Greece 7.
Environmental Direct Action Protests in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales
8. Resisting the Costs of 'Development': Local Environmental Activism in
Ireland 9. Conclusion: Local Environmental Mobilisations in Context