
Grassroots Environmental Governance
Community engagements with industry
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 7. December 2016
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-138-12302-1 (ISBN)
Description
Grassroots movements can pose serious challenges to both governments and corporations. However, grassroots actors possess a variety of motivations, and their visions of development may evolve in complex ways. Meanwhile, their relative powerlessness obliges them to forge an array of shifting alliances and to devise a range of adaptive strategies.
Grassroots Environmental Governance presents a compilation of in-depth ethnographic case studies, based on original research. Each of the chapters focuses specifically on grassroots engagements with the agents of various forms of industrial development. The book is geographically diverse, including analyses of groups based in both the global North and South, and represents a range of disciplinary perspectives. This allows the collection to explore themes that cross-cut specific localities and disciplinary boundaries, and thus to generate important theoretical insights into the complexities of grassroots engagements with industry.
This volume will be of great interest to scholars of environmental activism, environmental governance, and environmental studies in general.
Grassroots Environmental Governance presents a compilation of in-depth ethnographic case studies, based on original research. Each of the chapters focuses specifically on grassroots engagements with the agents of various forms of industrial development. The book is geographically diverse, including analyses of groups based in both the global North and South, and represents a range of disciplinary perspectives. This allows the collection to explore themes that cross-cut specific localities and disciplinary boundaries, and thus to generate important theoretical insights into the complexities of grassroots engagements with industry.
This volume will be of great interest to scholars of environmental activism, environmental governance, and environmental studies in general.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
7 s/w Abbildungen, 1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild, 4 s/w Zeichnungen, 2 s/w Tabellen
2 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
561 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-12302-1 (9781138123021)
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Community engagements with industry
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Persons
Leah S. Horowitz is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Michael J. Watts is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Michael J. Watts is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Editor
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
University of California Berkeley, USA
Content
1. Introduction
Part I: Strategies
2. Mapping ecologies of resistance
3. Red-green alliance-building against Durban's port-petrochemical complex expansion
4. Indigenous by association: Legitimation and grassroots engagements with multinational mining in New Caledonia
Part II: Relationships
5. Governing from the ground up? Translocal networks and the ambiguous politics of environmental justice in Bolivia
6. Between sacrifice and compensation: Collective action and the aftermath of oil disaster in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
7. From contested cotton to the ban on brinjal: India's shifting risk narratives in opposition to genetically engineered agriculture
Part III: Internal Dynamics
8. Contesting development: Pastoralism, mining and environmental politics in Mongolia
9. Micropolitics in the Marcellus Shale
Part IV: Politics
10. Accumulating insecurity and risk along the energy frontier
Part I: Strategies
2. Mapping ecologies of resistance
3. Red-green alliance-building against Durban's port-petrochemical complex expansion
4. Indigenous by association: Legitimation and grassroots engagements with multinational mining in New Caledonia
Part II: Relationships
5. Governing from the ground up? Translocal networks and the ambiguous politics of environmental justice in Bolivia
6. Between sacrifice and compensation: Collective action and the aftermath of oil disaster in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
7. From contested cotton to the ban on brinjal: India's shifting risk narratives in opposition to genetically engineered agriculture
Part III: Internal Dynamics
8. Contesting development: Pastoralism, mining and environmental politics in Mongolia
9. Micropolitics in the Marcellus Shale
Part IV: Politics
10. Accumulating insecurity and risk along the energy frontier