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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809229103321

Titolo

Direct action in British environmentalism / / editors, Benjamin Seel, Matthew Paterson, Brian Doherty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-54715-3

1-134-54716-1

0-203-47105-9

0-203-24259-9

1-280-10599-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 223 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

SeelBenjamin <1972->

PatersonMatthew <1967->

DohertyBrian <1964->

Disciplina

363.7/05/0941

Soggetti

Environmentalism - Great Britain

Direct action - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Direct action in British environmentalism; Environmental protest in Britain 1988  1997; Manufactured vulnerability: protest camp tactics; Snowballs, elves and skimmingtons?: genealogies of environmental direct action; Modern millenarians?: anticonsumerism, anarchism and the new urban environmentalism; Coming live and direct: strategies of Earth First!; 'It's just not natural'?: queer insights on eco-action; Swampy fever: media constructions and direct action politics

Friends and allies: the role of local campaign groupsThe vitality of local protest: Alarm UK and the British anti-roads protest movement; The politics of the car: the limits of actor-centred models of agenda setting; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Direct Action in British Environmentalism is the fulllest scholarly analysis available of this phenomenon. It is essential reading for students of politics and environmental studies.