Horowitz / Watts Grassroots Environmental Governance

Community engagements with industry
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-30306-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Global Environmental Governance

Despite the odds, grassroots movements can pose serious challenges to both governments and corporations. 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 innovate a range of adaptive strategies.

This book presents a compilation of in-depth, ethnographic case studies, based in original research. All the chapters focus specifically on grassroots engagements with the agents of various forms of industrial development, and are also geographically diverse, including analyses of groups based in both the global North and South, and represent 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.

Drawing upon a range of theoretical perspectives, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of environmental activism, environmental governance and environmental studies in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horowitz, Leah S.

Horowitz, Leah

Watts, Michael J

Watts, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction, Leah S. Horowitz and Michael J. Watts Part I: Strategies and politics 2. Governing from the ground up? Translocal networks and the politics of environmental suffering in Bolivia, Tom Perreault 3. Contesting ‘development’: Pastoralism, mining and environmental politics in Mongolia, Caroline Upton 4. Oil, environmental suffering, and mobilization in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Gabriela Valdivia Part II: Culture and power 5. Micropolitics in the Marcellus Shale, Eleanor Andrews and James McCarthy 6. Grassroots activism and the emergence of global movements to address the human and environmental costs of industrial aquaculture, Susan C. Stonich 7. Who is resisting in the name of what community? Local level politics in the oilfields of the Niger delta, Nigeria, Michael J. Watts Part III: Alliances 8. From blockades to bundles of pleading: Shifting strategic alliances for resisting dispossession in Sarawak, Malaysia, J. Peter Brosius 9. Libertarianism, Environmental Justice on Staten Island, Melissa Checker 10. Indigenous by association: Legitimation and grassroots engagements with multinational mining in New Caledonia, Leah S. Horowitz Part IV: Discursive strategies 11. The collision of community and capital in Africa’s armpit: South Durban’s contested port/petrochem complex, Patrick Bond 12. From contested cotton to the ban on brinjal: A decade of shifting risk narratives in opposition to genetically engineered agriculture, Julia Freeman, Terre Satterfield, and Milind Kandlikar 13. Resource resistance: Comparative insights from the Atlas of Environmental Justice, Leah Temper, Daniela del Bene, Arnim Scheidel and Joan Martinez Alier

Über Autor(innen)

Leah S. Horowitz is a Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Michael J. Watts is a Professor of Geography at the University of California Berkeley, USA