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OverviewEnvironmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. It illuminates the questions that are central to the ongoing evolution of the environmental movement while reappraising the history and character of late twentieth and early twenty-first environmentalism in Canada, the United States, and beyond. This collection considers the different ways in which Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists have worked to achieve significant change. It examines attempts to resist exploitative and damaging resource developments, and the establishment of parks, heritage sites, and protected areas that recognize the indivisibility of cultural and natural resources. It pays special attention to the thriving environmentalism of the 1960s through the 1980s, an era which saw the rise of major organizations such as Greenpeace along with the flourishing of local and community-based environmental activism. Environmental Activism on the Ground emphasizes the effects of local and Indigenous activism, offering lessons and directions from the ground up. It demonstrates that the modern environmental movement has been as much a small-scale, ordinary activity as a large-scale, elite one. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan Clapperton , Liza Piper , Liza Piper , Jessica DeWittPublisher: University of Calgary Press Imprint: University of Calgary Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.579kg ISBN: 9781773850047ISBN 10: 1773850040 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 30 January 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgements List of Contributors List of Figures Introduction In the Shadow of the Green Giants: Environmentalism and Civic Engagement Jonathan Clapperton and Liza Piper Process and Possibilities Strategies for Survival: First Nations Encounters with Environmentalism Anna J. Willow Native/Non-Native Alliances: Challenging Fossil Fuel Industry Shipping at Pacific Northwest Ports ZoltÁn Grossman Conserving Contested Ground: Sovereignty-Driven Stewardship by the White Mountain Apache tribe and the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation John R. Welch From Southern Alberta to Northern Brazil: Indigenous Conservation and the Preservation of Cultural Resources Sterling Evans Parks For and By the People: Acknowledging Ordinary People in the Formation, Protection, and Use of State and Provincial Parks Jessica M. DeWitt Histories Alternatives: Environmental and Indigenous Activism in the 1970s Liza Piper Marmion Lake Generating Station: Another Northern Scandal? Tobasonakwut Peter Kinew Environmental Activism as Anti-Conquest: The Nuu-chch-nulth and Environmentalists in the Contact Zone of Clayoquot Sound Jonathan Clapperton Local Economic Independence as Environmentalism: Nova Scotia in the 1970s Mark Leeming ""Not an Easy Thing to Implement"": The Conservation Council of New Brunswick and Environmental Organization in a Resource-Dependent Province, 1969-1983 Mark J. McLaughlin The Ebb and Flow of Local Environmental Activism: The Society for Pollution and Environmental Control (SPEC), British Columbia Jonathan Clapperton From Social Movement to Environmental Behemoth: How Greenpeace Got Big Frank Zelko Afterward Lessons and Directions from the Ground Up Jonathan Clapperton and Liza Piper Bibliography Index"ReviewsEnvironmental Activism on the Ground . . . we can all learn something from these compelling examples. --Sarah Marie Wiebe, Canadian Journal of Native Studies Environmental Activism on the Ground successfully foregrounds small-scale, local, and Indigenous organizing in the history of the environmental movement. Not only does this recalibrate our understanding of how the movement has been constituted and has changed over time, but as the editors suggest, it obliges us to reconsider what the impacts of the movement have been. The collection presents an alternative to declensionist narratives and helps to explain one reason why grassroots organizing continues unabated: because it has proven capable of winning and fostering lasting connections. --Justin Fisher, NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment An excellent book on grassroots Indigenous activism. --James C. Saku, American Review of Canadian Studies An excellent contribution to environmental history . . . the versatility of the text is a testament to both the editors' choices and the strength of the chapters. The histories Clapperton and Piper have collected are a valuable contribution to furthering our understanding of environmentalism in a Canadian context and beyond --John-Henry Harter, Historie Social / Social History Historians of the environmental movement have been working to incorporate more stories from the ground up and this volume is a wonderful addition to that growing body of research. --Darren Speece, Environment and History Jonathan Clapperton and Liza Piper's essay collection Environmental Activism on the Ground makes an important contribution to scholarly understandings of social movements, environmentalism, and Indigenous/settler relations in Canada and beyond . . . [it] clearly demonstrates that there is much important work to be done by historians in unpacking the significance and impact of small, grassroots environmental groups and Indigenous activists. --Henry John, British Journal of Canadian Studies Author InformationJonathan Clapperton is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria. He specializes in Indigenous history and culture in the North American West, and works as an expert witness and historical consultant for numerous Indigenous communities. Liza Piper is an environmental historian and associate professor of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. She is the author of The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada and editor of Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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