Agency, democracy, and nature : the U.S. environmental movement from a critical theory perspective / Robert J. Brulle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brulle, Robert J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism--United States--History.

Environmentalism.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 347 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2000]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Annotation In this book Robert Brulle draws on a broad range of empirical and theoretical research to investigate the effectiveness of U.S. environmental groups. Brulle shows how Critical Theory--in particular the work of Jürgen Habermas--can expand our understanding of the social causes of environmental degradation and the political actions necessary to deal with it. He then develops both a pragmatic and a moral argument for broad-based democratization of society as a prerequisite to the achievement of ecological sustainability. From the perspectives of frame analysis, resource mobilization, and historical sociology, using data on more than one hundred environmental groups, Brulle examines the core beliefs, structures, funding, and political practices of a wide variety of environmental organizations. He identifies the social processes that foster the development of a democratic environmental movement and those that hinder it. He concludes with suggestions for how environmental groups can make their organizational practices more democratic and politically effective.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262269407

0262269406

9780262024808

0262024802

9780262522816

0262522810

OCLC:

62144738

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