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Author:   Christopher Rootes
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780415457644

ISBN 10:   0415457645
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   29 April 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Local Environmental Mobilizations 2. Still the Time of Environmental Movements? Environmental Organizational Fields in Britain and Italy 3. Local Contention, Global Framing: The Protest Campaigns against the TAV in Val de Susa and the Bridge on the Messina Straits 4. From Larzac to the Altermondialist Mobilization: Space in Environmental Movements 5. Networking the Local and the National: Environmental Activists and Campaigns in London 6. Local Environmental Protest in Greece 7. Environmental Direct Action Protests in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales 8. Resisting the Costs of ‘Development’: Local Environmental Activism in Ireland 9. Conclusion: Local Environmental Mobilisations in Context

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'This is a very interesting volume that will be useful to researchers and students of social movements, particularly environmental mobilizations and campaigns.' - Social Movement Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 92, January 2010

Author Information

Christopher Rootes is Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

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