1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements

Edited By Maria Grasso, Marco Giugni Copyright 2022
    628 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    628 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This handbook provides readers with up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements and activism and is a reference point for international work in the field. It offers an assessment of environmental movements in different regions of the world, macrostructural conditions and processes underlying their mobilization, the microstructural and social-psychological dimensions of environmental movements and activism, and current trends, as well as prospects for environmental movements and social change.

    The handbook provides critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of the art and future development of conceptual and theoretical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and understanding of environmental movements and activism. It encourages dialogue across the disciplinary barriers between social movement studies and other perspectives and reflects upon the causes and consequences of citizens’ participation in environmental movements and activities. The volume brings historical studies of environmentalism, sociological analyses of the social composition of participants in and sympathizers of environmental movements, investigations by political scientists on the conditions and processes underlying environmental movements and activism, and other disciplinary inquiries together, while keeping a clear focus within social movement theory and research as the main lines of inquiry.

    The handbook is an essential guide and reference point not only for researchers but also for undergraduate and graduate teaching and for policymakers and activists.

    Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

    1.Environmental Movements Worldwide     

    Maria Grasso and Marco Giugni

    Part 1: Environmental Movements Around the World

    2. Environmental Movements in Western Europe: From Globalization and Institutionalization to a New Model of Radicalization in the 21st Century?         

    Sylvie Ollitrault

    3. Rhapsody in Green: Environmental Movements in Central Eastern Europe

    Ondrej Cisar

    4. The “Tar Wars” and Climate Justice Activism in North America: A Transboundary Movement Linking the U.S. and Canada     

    Ellen Spears

    5. Geographies of Latin American Social-environmental Movements: Defending Territories and Lifeways in the Face of Violent Extractivism            

    Joel Correia

    6. Environmental Movements in Asia: Divergent Relationship with Political Liberalization

    Fengshi Wu

    7. Middle East and North Africa: Civil Society and Environmental Activism in the Arab World  

    Salpie Djoundourian

    8. African Environmental Movements: Africans Saving Africa Themselves     

    Phia Steyn

    9. Rising Tides and Dirty Coal: The Environmental Movement in Oceania          

    Robyn Gulliver, Susilo Wibisono and Winnifred Louis

    Part 2: Issues and Movement Sectors

    10. Environmental Conservation       

    Angela Mertig

    11. Anti-nuclear Movements in the US, Europe and Asia    

    Helena Flam and Hiroshi Honda

    12. Extractivism in the America’s Indigenous: The Land of Resisters           

    Ana Isla

    13. Climate Change Movements in the Global North

    Eugene Nulman

    14. Animal Rights and Anti-Speciesism       

    Lyle Munro

    15. Political Consumerism and Food Activism         

    Jasmine Lorenzini

    16. Environmental Justice and Climate Justice           

    Phaedra Pezzullo

    17 Indigenous Movements    

    Linda Etchart

    Part 3: Macrostructural Conditions and Processes

    18. Environmental Movements and Their Political Context

    Joost de Moor and Mattias Wahlström

    19. Mobilizing Environmental Experts and Expertise

    Scott Frickel and Florencia Arancibia

    20. From Environmental (Movement) Organizations to the Organizing of Environmental Collective Action    

    Mario Diani

    21. Environmental and Animal Oriented Radicalization: Walking a Different Path?

    Gerry Nagtzaam and Pete Lentini

    22. New Forms of Environmental Movement Institutionalization: Marketization and the Politics of Responsibility

    Håkan Thörn

    23. Commercialization: Environmentalism and Capitalist Markets

    Philip Balsiger

    Part 4: Microstructural and Social-Psychological Dimensions

    24. Social Class and Environmental Movements        

    Magnus Wennerhag and Anders Hylmo

    25. Political Values and Socialization in Environmental Movements 

    David Tindall, Erick Lachapelle, Valerie Berseth and Marjolaine Martel-Morin

    26. Social Networks and Recruitment for Environmental Movements 

    Clare Saunders

    27. Framing Environmental Issues     

    Louisa Parks

    28. Gender and Environmental Movements   

    Chie Togami and Suzanne Staggenborg

    29. Environmental Activism and Everyday Life       

    Francesca Forno and Stefan Wahlen

    Part 5: Consequences and Outcomes

    30. Policy and Legislative Outcomes of Environmental Movements 

    Erik Johnson and Jon Agnone

    31. Influence of Environmental Movements on Public Opinion and Attitudes: Do People’s Movements Move the People?          

    Joanna Huxster

    32. Environmental Movements and Scientific, Technological, and Industrial Change

    David Hess

    33: Biographical Consequences of Environmental Activism

    Sara Vestergren and John Drury

    Part 6: Environmental Movements in the Twenty-First Century

    34. Youth and Environmental Activism

    Sarah Pickard, Benjamin Bowman and Dena Arya

    35. Environmental Movements and Digital Media   

    Anastasia Kavada and Doug Specht

    36 Green Democracy 

    Amanda Machin

    37. Neoliberalism and Social-environmental Movements in the Aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crash:  Linking Struggles Against Social, Spatial and Environmental Inequality

    Elia Apostolopoulou

    38. The Future of Environmental Movements

    Carl Cassegard

    Biography

    Maria Grasso is Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

    Marco Giugni is Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Institute of Citizenship Studies (InCite) at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

    "A comprehensive, detailed and authoritative treatment of environmental movements world-wide by leading scholars. It is by far the most useful text on this subject for both students and researchers."

    Professor Brian Doherty, School of Social, Political and Global Studies, Keele University, UK

    "At a time when climate action is more important than ever, Grasso and Giugni offer a globally inclusive overview of environmental movements that highlights the often overlooked role of Indigenous, Global South, anti-capitalist, and youth-led movements."

    Janet A. Lorenzen, Associate Professor of Sociology, Willamette University, USA   

    "This important collection paints a sophisticated picture of the many diverse environmental movements and forms of activism now found in every part of the planet. The impressive range of empirical cases and theoretical framings presented by a diverse group of scholars makes it is an invaluable resource for researchers and students who aspire to a truly interdisciplinary and global understanding of contemporary environmental politics."

    Sherilyn MacGregor, Department of Politics, The University of Manchester, UK

    "This exciting collection of critical scholarship on environmental movements is stunning in its breadth, depth, and sophistication. The contributors offer a range of new insights into the character, drivers, and consequences of those heterogenous, multiscalar, multigenerational, grassroots and institutionalized collectives that constitute the world’s environmental movements. If you are interested in an expansive reference source regarding how ordinary people concerned with our ecological futures are achieving social change in every corner of planet earth, this is the book for you."

    David N. Pellow, Dehlsen Chair of Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

    "This handbook is the most comprehensive and variegated treatment of contemporary environmental movements around the world. It covers a broad range of aspects, including issues, political contexts, and movement outcomes. I strongly recommend it to every student and scholar who is interested in the stunning diversity and complexity of a terrain that only can be mapped by a collaborative endeavor of both specialists and comparativists."

    Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Social Science Center (WZB) Berlin, Germany