Local Environmental Grassroots Activism: Contributions from Environmental Psychology, Sociology and Politics
Local environmental grassroots activism is robust and globally ubiquitous despite the ebbs and flows of the general environmental movement. In this review we synthesize social movement, environmental politics, and environmental psychology literatures to answer the following questions: How does the e...
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| description | Local environmental grassroots activism is robust and globally ubiquitous despite the ebbs and flows of the general environmental movement. In this review we synthesize social movement, environmental politics, and environmental psychology literatures to answer the following questions: How does the environment emerge as a topic for community action and how a particular environmental discourse (preservation, conservation, public health, Deep Ecology, justice, localism and other responses to modernization and development) becomes dominant? How does a community coalesce around the environmental issue and its particular framing? What is the relationship between local and supralocal (regional, national, global) activism? We contrast “Not in My Back Yard” (NIMBY) activism and environmental liberation and discuss the significance of local knowledge and scale, nature as an issue for activism, place attachment and its disruption, and place-based power inequalities. Environmental psychology contributions to established scholarship on environmental activism are proposed: the components of place attachment are conceptualized in novel ways and a continuous dweller and activist place attachment is elaborated. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d5dea5fcfeb74e1586e5b5f658d38d5b2022-12-22T00:44:43ZengMDPI AGBehavioral Sciences2076-328X2015-03-015112115310.3390/bs5010121bs5010121Local Environmental Grassroots Activism: Contributions from Environmental Psychology, Sociology and PoliticsNikolay L. Mihaylov0Douglas D. Perkins1Department of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Box 90, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203, USADepartment of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Box 90, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203, USALocal environmental grassroots activism is robust and globally ubiquitous despite the ebbs and flows of the general environmental movement. In this review we synthesize social movement, environmental politics, and environmental psychology literatures to answer the following questions: How does the environment emerge as a topic for community action and how a particular environmental discourse (preservation, conservation, public health, Deep Ecology, justice, localism and other responses to modernization and development) becomes dominant? How does a community coalesce around the environmental issue and its particular framing? What is the relationship between local and supralocal (regional, national, global) activism? We contrast “Not in My Back Yard” (NIMBY) activism and environmental liberation and discuss the significance of local knowledge and scale, nature as an issue for activism, place attachment and its disruption, and place-based power inequalities. Environmental psychology contributions to established scholarship on environmental activism are proposed: the components of place attachment are conceptualized in novel ways and a continuous dweller and activist place attachment is elaborated.http://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/5/1/121local activismgrassroots activismenvironmental activismsocial movementsenvironmental psychologyplace attachmentsocial representations |
| spellingShingle | Nikolay L. Mihaylov Douglas D. Perkins Local Environmental Grassroots Activism: Contributions from Environmental Psychology, Sociology and Politics Behavioral Sciences local activism grassroots activism environmental activism social movements environmental psychology place attachment social representations |
| title | Local Environmental Grassroots Activism: Contributions from Environmental Psychology, Sociology and Politics |
| title_full | Local Environmental Grassroots Activism: Contributions from Environmental Psychology, Sociology and Politics |
| title_fullStr | Local Environmental Grassroots Activism: Contributions from Environmental Psychology, Sociology and Politics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Local Environmental Grassroots Activism: Contributions from Environmental Psychology, Sociology and Politics |
| title_short | Local Environmental Grassroots Activism: Contributions from Environmental Psychology, Sociology and Politics |
| title_sort | local environmental grassroots activism contributions from environmental psychology sociology and politics |
| topic | local activism grassroots activism environmental activism social movements environmental psychology place attachment social representations |
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