Research Catalog

Title

Environmental destruction, risk exposure, and social asymmetry : case studies of the environmental movement's action / Margarita Alario.

Author

Alario, Margarita.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©1995.

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Details

Description

x, 137 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

• Environmental policy
• Environmental policy > Case studies
• Social ecology
• Social ecology > Case studies
• Green movement
• Green movement > Case studies
• Social Environment
• environmental policy
• human ecology
• Environmental policy
• Green movement
• Social ecology
• Soziale Probleme
• Sozialpolitik
• Sozialökologie
• Umweltpartei
• Umweltpolitik
• Umweltschaden
• Ökologische Bewegung

Genre/Form

• Case Reports
• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-134) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Nature as a New Field of Political Contestation. Antecedents to the Mobilization of the Environmental Movement. The Existing Approaches to the Study of Social Movements. Research Methods and Methodology. The Plan of the Book -- Ch. 1. The Encroachment of Old and New Forms of Asymmetry: When Poverty and Risk Exposure Converge. A Complementary Approach to Political Paradigms: On Ecological and Social Issues. The Challenges of a Complementary Intervention in the Public Sphere. The Agenda after Rio: Nature Preservation and Basic Human Rights -- Ch. 2. Environmental Destruction and Social Asymmetry: Voices from the Environmental Justice Movement. Environmental Risk and Late Modernity. After Chernobyl. Practical Considerations for a Political Ecological Paradigm -- Ch. 3. Environmental Destruction and the Public Sphere: On Habermas's Discursive Model and the Political Ecology. The Discursive-Centered Model of the Public Sphere. The Configuration of an Ecological Public Discourse. The Dilemmas of Structural Reforms -- Ch. 4. The Question of Institutional Political Agency: A Case Study on the Success and Dilemmas of the German Green Party. Competing Democratic Models. The Ecological Program -- Ch. 5. The Green Party and the New Social Movements: Conflicting Tasks. When Ideologically Dispersed Movements Converge. The Political Conception of a Movement-Party. The Dilemmas of a Movement-Party Strategy -- Ch. 6. Mobilizing Against Environmental Destruction and Risk: Towards a Complementary Intervention in the Public Sphere. Inducing Innovation and Reforms. The Perils of a Catch-All-Movement. The Diffusion of Global Environmental Politics and the Politics of Locality.

ISBN

• 0819197270
• 9780819197276
• 0819197289
• 9780819197283

LCCN

94031765

OCLC

• ocm30973345
• 30973345
• SCSB-2048916

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library