Environmental Networks and Social Movement Theory

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Clare Saunders'' book is an important contribution to the literature on social movements and environmentalism. Using the concept of ''environmental networks'', it explores the extent to which social movement theory helps us understand how a broad range of environmental organizations interact. It considers the practicalities of social movement theories and it goes on to relate them to the practices of environmental networks. Theoretically and empirically rich, the book draws on extensive survey material with 144 UK environmental organizations, as diverse as not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) groups, reformists, conservationists and radicals; interviews with more than 40 key campaigners and extensive participant-observation, particularly in London.Focussing particularly on the crucial question of networking dynamics, the book reveals that there are broad ranging network links across the movements'' spatial and ideological dimensions. Combined with inevitable ideological clashes and a degree of sectarian rivalry, these links helps produce vibrant environmental networks that together work to protect and/or preserve the environment. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with environmental issues, politics and movements.>

About the author

Clare Saunders is head of educational development at the University of Birmingham, UK. Upon completing her PhD in philosophy she built up fourteen years’ experience in philosophy teaching and learning, at the Universities of Sunderland and Durham, UK and with the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies, before moving into educational development.

Product details

• Authors: Clare Saunders, Peter Saunders
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2013
• EAN: 9781849660525
• ISBN: 978-1-84966-052-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Social Theory, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social groups, Political science & theory, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Political science and theory, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism, Social groups, communities and identities