Environmentalism in the United States: Changing Patterns of Activism and Advocacy

ISBN-13: 9780415448185 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 169 str.

Elizabeth Bomberg;David Schlosberg

Opis

Environmentalism – defined here as activism aimed at protecting the environment or improving its condition – is undergoing significant change in the United States. Under attack from the current administration and direct questioning from its own ranks, environmentalism in the US is at a crossroads. This special issue will explore the changing patterns of and challenges to environmentalism in the contemporary US. More specifically, it will examine the following dynamics:

· the re-conceptualisation of core ideas and strategies defining US environmentalism;

· questions of identity and relations with other advocacy groups (including labour, global justice and women’s groups)

· institutional change (especially the shift away from regulatory policies and approaches)

· the expanding arenas of activism, to both above and below the state

· environmentalists’ response to Bush administration policies and priorities

Spis treści

1. Perspectives on American environmentalism  David Schlosberg and Elizabeth Bomberg  2. Producing political climate change: the hidden life of US environmentalism  Philip Brick and R. McGreggor Cawley  3. Populism, paternalism and the state of environmentalism in the US  John M. Meyer  4. The environmentalist: 'what is to be done?'  William Chaloupka  5. Ecological modernisation, American style  David Schlosberg and Sara Rinfret  6. Living environmentalisms: coalition politics, social reproduction, and environmental justice  Giovanna Di Chiro  7. Radical environmentalism in an age of antiterrorism  Steve Vanderheiden  8. Failure and opportunity: environmental groups in US climate change policy  Gary Bryner  9. US environmentalism in comparative perspective  Elizabeth Bomberg and David Schlosberg

O autorze

Elizabeth Bomberg is Senior Lecturer in Politics and the University of Edinburgh.

David Schlosberg is Professor of Political Science at Northern Arizona University.