Overview

Grassroots movements can pose serious challenges to both governments and corporations. However, grassroots actors possess a variety of motivations, and their visions of development may evolve in complex ways. Meanwhile, their relative powerlessness obliges them to forge an array of shifting alliances and to devise a range of adaptive strategies. Grassroots Environmental Governance presents a compilation of in-depth ethnographic case studies, based on original research. Each of the chapters focuses specifically on grassroots engagements with the agents of various forms of industrial development. The book is geographically diverse, including analyses of groups based in both the global North and South, and represents a range of disciplinary perspectives. This allows the collection to explore themes that cross-cut specific localities and disciplinary boundaries, and thus to generate important theoretical insights into the complexities of grassroots engagements with industry. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of environmental activism, environmental governance, and environmental studies in general.

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Author:   Leah Horowitz (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) ,  Michael Watts (University of California Berkeley, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9781138123021

ISBN 10:   1138123021
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   07 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part I: Strategies 2. Mapping ecologies of resistance 3. Red-green alliance-building against Durban’s port-petrochemical complex expansion 4. Indigenous by association: Legitimation and grassroots engagements with multinational mining in New Caledonia Part II: Relationships 5. Governing from the ground up? Translocal networks and the ambiguous politics of environmental justice in Bolivia 6. Between sacrifice and compensation: Collective action and the aftermath of oil disaster in Esmeraldas, Ecuador 7. From contested cotton to the ban on brinjal: India’s shifting risk narratives in opposition to genetically engineered agriculture Part III: Internal Dynamics 8. Contesting development: Pastoralism, mining and environmental politics in Mongolia 9. Micropolitics in the Marcellus Shale Part IV: Politics 10. Accumulating insecurity and risk along the energy frontier

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Leah S. Horowitz is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. Michael J. Watts is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

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