At a time when the prospects of dealing with climate change have taken a drastic turn for the worse, with the election of Donald Trump as US President, this book provides a glimmer of hope with its in-depth study of climate activism throughout the world. Highly recommended!
Andrew Jamison, Aalborg University, Denmark
This book could not be more timely. Climate change is the most important issue facing humanity in the twenty-first century. This comparative study of climate change activism helps us understand how it might best be confronted.
Ronald Eyerman, Yale University, USA
With a firm understanding of both environmental politics and the latest theoretical thinking, this book persuasively unravels the relationships between policymaking and social movements, power, responsibility and resistance. In so doing, it reveals the complexity of global climate governance but also demonstrates the inseparability of climate and global justice. No reader can be left in doubt about the challenges, dilemmas and opportunities facing climate action and climate activism.
Alan Irwin, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
CLIMATE ACTION IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
The existence and urgency of global climate change is a matter of scientific consensus. Yet the global politics of climate change have been anything but consensual. In this context, a wave of global climate activism has emerged in the last decade in response to the perceived failure of the political negotiations.
This book provides a unique comparative study of environmental movements in USA, Japan, Denmark and Sweden, analyzing their interaction with the international climate institutions of the United Nations, with national governments and with currents in the global climate movement. It documents how and why the movement evolved between the Copenhagen Summit of 2009 and the Paris Summit of 2015, altering its strategies and tactics while attracting new actors to the issue area. Further, it demonstrates how the development of global environmental networks has increased contact between environmental movements in the Global North and those from the Global South, resulting in the establishment of climate justice as a political cause and unifying frame for global climate activism.
Carl Cassegrd 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 Full 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.
Hkan Thrn is Full Professor of Sociology, based at the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses social movements, globalization and power.
sa Wettergren is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Gothenburg. Her main research interest is in the sociology of emotions, researching a wide array of topics involving this perspective.
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Names: Cassegrd, Carl, editor.
Title: Climate action in a globalizing world : comparative perspectives on environmental movements in the global North / edited by Carl Cassegrd, Linda Soneryd, Hkan Thrn and sa Wettergren.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Environmental politics/Routledge research in environmental politics ; 27 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016049709| ISBN 9781138667303 (pbk) | ISBN 9781138667280 (hbk) | ISBN 9781315618975 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: EnvironmentalismDeveloped countries. | Climatic changesPolitical aspectsDeveloped countries. | Environmental responsibilityDeveloped countries. | Environmental policyDeveloped countries. | Conference of the Parties (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) | GlobalizationEnvironmental aspects.
Classification: LCC GE195 .C59 2017 | DDC 363.738/74dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016049709
ISBN: 978-1-138-66728-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-66730-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-61897-5 (ebk)
Carl Cassegrd is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is currently researching Japanese social movements with a focus on the precarity movement and the environmental movement. He is the author of Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan (2014) and Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature (2007).
Jennifer Hadden is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, USA. She conducts research in international relations, environmental politics, non-state actors and social movements. Her recent book titled Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Global Climate Change was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. She has published articles in The British Journal of Political Science, Global Environmental Politics, Global Governance and Mobilization.
Jochen Kleres is a research fellow at COSMOS/Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Florence, Italy). His research focuses on civic action, emotions, migration and methodology. In 2014 he received an Emerging Scholar Dissertation Merit Award from the International Society for Third-Sector Research. He is a board member of the Sociology of Emotions Research Network within the European Sociological Association. He has published articles in Sociological Research Online, the Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior and co-edited several volumes including Methods of Exploring Emotions (Routledge, 2015).
Joost de Moor has a PhD from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity at Keele University, UK. He works on political participation, lifestyle politics and social movements such as the squatting movement and the environmental and climate movement. He has published on these topics in Mobilization, Parliamentary Affairs and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Linda Soneryd is Lecturer and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research currently focuses on environmental movements and climate change, transboundary governance and water management, and stakeholder involvement in spatial planning. She is co-author of
