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Acting Locally: Local Environmental Mobilizations and Campaigns

Rootes, Christopher, ed. (2008) Acting Locally: Local Environmental Mobilizations and Campaigns. Routledge, 176 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-45764-4. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:14945)

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Abstract

Local campaigns are the most persistent and ubiquitous forms of environmental contention. National and transnational mobilisations come and go and the attention they receive from mass media ebbs and flows, but local campaigns persist. The persistence or re-emergence of local campaigns is also a reminder that it remain possible to mobilise people around environmental issues, and they have often served as sources of innovation in and re-invigoration of national organisations that have allegedly been co-opted by the powerful and incorporated into the established political and administrative system.

But local environmental campaigns have been relatively neglected in the scientific literature. Drawing on examples from Britain, France, Greece, Ireland and Italy, this book seeks to redress that neglect by examining the networks among actors and organisations that connect local mobilizations to the larger environmental movement and political systems, the ways in which local disputes are framed in order to connect with national and global issues, and the persistent impacts of the peculiarities of place upon environmental campaigns.

Item Type: Edited book
Uncontrolled keywords: local environmental campaigns, environmental movements, social movements
Subjects: H Social Sciences
J Political Science
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: G.T. Swain
Date Deposited: 18 Apr 2009 11:06 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:53 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14945 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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