Climate Action in a Globalizing World (eBook, ePUB)

Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Movements in the Global North
Redaktion: Cassegard, Carl; Wettergren, Asa; Thorn, Hakan; Soneryd, Linda

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Climate Action in a Globalizing World addresses the debate on political globalization, governance and social movements through an analysis of the interaction between movement mobilization and global movement strategies. More specifically, it examines the environmental movements in Denmark, Japan, Sweden and US with a particular focus on their interaction with global climate activism and global climate policy institutions in the context of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317212546
• Artikelnr.: 48417535

Autorenporträt

Carl Cassegård is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. He is currently researching Japanese social movements with a focus on the precarity movement and the environmental movement. Linda Soneryd is Lecturer and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. Her research currently focuses on environmental movements and climate change, transboundary governance and water management, and stakeholder involvement in spatial planning. Håkan Thörn is Full Professor of Sociology, based at the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses social movements, globalization and power. Åsa Wettergren is Associate Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. Her main research interest is in the sociology of emotions, researching a wide array of topics involving this perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Climate action in a globalizing world - an introduction
Part I: Global Perspectives: COP as a space for climate action
Chapter 2: Climate justice, equity and movement mobilization
Chapter 3: Governing dissent in a state of emergency: police and protester
interactions in the global space of the COP
Chapter 4: Mobilizing emotions in the global sphere: global solidarity and
the regime of rationality
Chapter 5: COP as a global public sphere: news media frames, movement
frames and media standing of climate movement actors
Part II: National environmental movements in global context: United States,
Japan, Denmark and Sweden
Chapter 6: Learning From Defeat: The Strategic Reorientation of the U.S.
Climate Movement
Chapter 7: Between Government and Grassroots: Challenges to
Institutionalization in the Japanese Environmental Movement
Chapter 8: Denmark - from a green economy toward a new eco-radicalism?
Chapter 9: The Swedish environmental movement: politics of responsibility
between climate justice and local transition
PART III: Concluding reflections: new perspectives on climate action
Chapter 10: Hegemony and environmentalist strategy - global governance,
movement mobilization, and climate justice