Climate activism : how communities take renewable energy actions across business and society / Annika Skoglund, Steffen Böhm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skoglund, Annika, 1977- author.

Böhm, Steffen, 1973- author.

Series:

Business, value creation, and society.

Business, value creation, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Prevention--Citizen participation.

Climatic changes.

Climate change mitigation--Citizen participation.

Climate change mitigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

What is activism? The answer is, typically, that it is a form of opposition, often expressed on the streets. Skoglund and Böhm argue differently. They identify forms of 'insider activism' within corporations, state agencies and villages, showing how people seek to transform society by working within the system, rather than outright opposing it. Using extensive empirical data, Skoglund and Böhm analyze the transformation of climate activism in a rapidly changing political landscape, arguing that it is time to think beyond the tensions between activism and enterprise. They trace the everyday renewable energy actions of a growing 'epistemic community' of climate activists who are dispersed across organizational boundaries and domains. This book is testament to a new way of understanding activism as an organizational force that brings about the transition towards sustainability across business and society and is of interest to social science scholars of business, renewable energy and sustainable development.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Climate Action through Renewable Energy

Activism in Transition

Climate Activism and Community Formation

Outline of the Book

1 Boundaryless Activism

1.1 Activism Goes into Business, and Business Goes into Activism

1.1.1 Politics as Business Strategy

1.1.2 Activism as Business Strategy

1.1.3 Activist Entrepreneurs

1.1.4 Employee Activism

1.1.5 CEO Activism

1.2 Critical Perspectives on Commercial Activism

1.3 Conclusion

2 The Activist-Business-State Conglomeration

2.1 Deliberative Democracy - from Citizen Voicing to Activism

2.2 Deliberative Democracy, Renewable Energy Communities and Climate Activism in the UK

2.2.1 Prosumer Activism

2.2.2 Investor Activism

2.2.3 Insider Activism

2.3 Conclusion

3 Activism and Its Collective Force

3.1 Activism in Transition

3.1.1 Activism as Identity Work

3.1.2 Activism as Action

3.1.3 Activism as Prefiguration

3.1.4 Activism as Emotional Work

3.1.5 Activism as Community Formation

3.2 Community Formation

3.2.1 Community and Togetherness

3.2.2 Community and Nihilism

3.2.3 Community and Locality

3.2.4 Community and Capitalism

3.2.5 Community and Business

3.2.6 Community and Neoliberalism

3.3 Conclusion

4 Epistemic Community

4.1 Communities of Expertise

4.1.1 Epistemic Community and Action

4.1.2 Epistemic Community and Co-production

4.1.3 Epistemic Community and Bildung

4.2 Conclusion

5 Climate Activism at Vattenfall

5.1 The Greening of Vattenfall

5.2 Working at Vattenfall

5.3 Working at Vattenfall Wind

5.4 Working beyond Environmental Management

5.5 Personal Politics and Passion at Work.

5.6 Epistemic Community and Employee Activism

6 Climate Activism via Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

6.1 Small R. Energy

6.2 Ecotricity

6.3 Good Energy

6.4 Community Interest Companies

6.5 Epistemic Community and Enterprising Activism

7 Climate Activism in Governmental Authorities

7.1 Clean Government

7.2 Local Energy Group

7.3 Green Council

7.4 Epistemic Community and Insider Activism

8 Climate Activism via Citizen Groups

8.1 Love Seaside Town

8.2 Decarbonised Living Project

8.3 Epistemic Community and Prosumer Activism

9 New Ways of Knowing

9.1 Climate Activism in the Energy Transition

9.1.1 Experiment and Do-It-Yourself

9.1.2 Share and Do-It-Together

9.1.3 Wander and Speed Up

9.1.4 Alter and Materialise

9.2 Beyond a Polarisation of Community and Business

9.3 Conclusion

10 Horizontal Organising

10.1 Renewable Energy Technology and Horizontal Organising

10.2 Outsourced Deliberation and Horizontal Organising

10.3 Horizontality and Prefiguration

10.4 Epistemic Community

10.4.1 Feral Proximity

10.4.2 Epistemic Struggles

10.4.3 Radical Equality

10.4.4 Human Relationality

Appendix

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

1-108-68312-6

1-108-63042-1

1-108-69719-4