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Acting Locally: the character, contexts and significance of local environmental mobilizations’

Rootes, Christopher (2007) Acting Locally: the character, contexts and significance of local environmental mobilizations’. Environmental Politics, 16 (5). pp. 722-741. ISSN 0964-4016. (doi:10.1080/09644010701640460) (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:14946)

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Abstract

Local environmental campaigns are ubiquitous and recurrent, even in times when environmental issues are not salient on national agenda. Yet their relationship to translocal environmental movements and issues has been relatively neglected. Local environmental campaigners are variously related to national and local organisations, and the peculiarities of place are one factor in that variation. But place itself acquires meaning through campaigns, and communities forge identity even as they mobilise against threats to their survival. The relationship between local campaigns and global environmental issues is problematic, but the ways in which local mobilisations often combine issues of environment, economic justice and democracy mirror the emerging agenda of transnational environmentalism.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1080/09644010701640460
Uncontrolled keywords: environmentalism, environmental movements
Subjects: H Social Sciences
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: 29 Jun 2011 19:11 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:53 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14946 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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