1st Edition
Direct Action in British Environmentalism
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Direct action has become a key part of the strategy of the radical environmental movement since the early 1990s, used to address issues such as road building and car culture, genetically modified foods, consumerism and global finance institutions. It has helped shape the political climate and has transformed the way people view political action, undermining the assumption that the power of... Read more
List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, 1 Direct action in British environmentalism, 2 Environmental protest in Britain 1988–1997, 3 Manufactured vulnerability: protest camp tactics, 4 Snowballs, elves and skimmingtons?: genealogies of environmental direct action, 5 Modern millenarians?: anticonsumerism, anarchism and the new urban environmentalism, 6 Coming live and direct: strategies of Earth First!, 7 ‘It’s just not natural’?: queer insights on eco-action, 8 Swampy fever: media constructions and direct action politics, 9 Friends and allies: the role of local campaign groups, 10 The vitality of local protest: Alarm UK and the British anti-roads protest movement, 11 The politics of the car: the limits of actor-centred models of agenda setting, Index
Biography
Brian Doherty, Matthew Paterson, Benjamin Seel
