Environmental Protest in Western Europe

Rootes, Christopher

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“…On the other hand, it would be more useful to fit present and commonly held concepts and categories of analysis to the relatively new NIMBY -BANANA cases and to examine more deeply other social variables such as trust, mass media use and political culture in decisionmaking strategies, because opposition to megabuilding projects is a highly sophisticated and still little known phenomenon in which Social Sciences have a great deal of field work to do. Rootes (2003) and Weidner (1998). d 5 dThrough a mechanism similar to trust in people strictu sensu, referring to the Luhman's distinction between 'trust' and 'confidence' (Luhmann, 1989).…”

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“…More research was generated by public attention as new environmental conflicts sprang up throughout many countries. ddIn the social science domain, the main studies can be identified and divided into four groups: d1)dsocial movements and urban conflicts studies (Lolive, 1997;della Porta, Kriesi and Rucht, 1999;Lahusen, 1999;Lewicki, Gray and Elliot, 2003;Rootes, 2003;della Porta and Diani, 2004;della Porta, 2006;della Porta and Piazza, 2008); d2)dworks on public deliberation and citizens juries (Weidner, 1998;Bobbio and Zeppetella, 1999;Bobbio, 2002;Lewanski, 2006); d3)dtraditional analysis of geography, urbanism and territory (Segre and Dansero, 1996;Lewicki, Gray and Elliot, 2003;Elliott, 2007;Bobbio and Dansero, 2008); d4)dpsycho-social school of risk perception analysis Fischhoff, 1979, 1985;Slovic 1992Slovic , 2000. ddWorks focusing on communication and culture variables are unexpectedly missing, and these variables will form the singular perspective presented in this paper.…”

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“…Basically, it deals with risk perception and people's scientific literacy, and on their influence on the attitude towards high-tech and controversial industrial plants, an increasingly relevant theme, and not only within the social science field. ddOver the last two decades, many studies have focused their attention on the phenomenon of local opposition to 'useful but unwanted' plant and infrastructure programs in many parts of the world, such as in Canada and the United States (Rasmussen, 1992;Seeliger, 1994;McGurty, 1997;Fischel, 2001;Blake, 2004;Saha and Mohai, 2005), France (Lafaye and Thévenot, 1993;Lolive, 1997;Trom, 1999;Catherin, 2000;Rootes 2003), Germany (Weidner, 1998;Rootes, 2003), Greece (Rootes, 2003), Great Britain (Welsh, 1993;Rootes, 2003), Spain (Muñoz, Durán and García, 1999;Rootes, 2003), Sweden (Rootes, 2003) and Japan (Lesbirel, 1998). ddLooking at the Italian context then, mass media attention and public opinion have been drawn to projects such as the nuclear waste storage plant for Scanzano Ionico, the High Speed Train (TAV) in the Val di Susa area, the Dal Molin American Airport base near Vicenza and, most of all, the waste management catastrophe in Naples.…”

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Among ‘Bananas’ and ‘Backyards’: A Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Risk and Scientific Literacy on the Attitude towards a Waste Co-incinerator in Italy

Tipaldo¹

2011

International Review of Social Research

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This paper, based on a social impact research and the possible NIMBY-effect of the Turin, Italy, co-incinerator, deals with risk perception, scientific literacy and their influence on the attitude towards high-tech and controversial industrial plants. The paper argues that plant and infrastructure settlements having a substantial ecological impact represent a highly sophisticated and diverse social phenomenon in which risk plays an important but not unique role. Taking into account some important concomitant variables (such as trust, mass media use, political culture in decision-making processes), it is first of all shown that risk is not a mono-dimensional concept, as assumed by the psychometric tradition, and that two dimensions of the concept are to be found. The collective dimension has a positive monotonic association with a critical attitude towards the co-incinerator, whereas the individual dimension has an unexpectedly negative correlation, which will be explained in further detail. It also demonstrates that scientific literacy has no statistical significance for attitude in our model, confirming the well-known limits of the so called 'knowledge deficit' model.

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Among ‘Bananas’ and ‘Backyards’: A Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Risk and Scientific Literacy on the Attitude towards a Waste Co-incinerator in Italy

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2011

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“…Protesters aim at agricultural issues only infrequently because in the industrially developed countries, farmers' organisations are well developed and powerful and can thus exert pressure on governments via institutional ways (Landsberger, 1974). Even more, environmentalism has, to a considerable extent, become institutionalised (Rootes, 2003).…”

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“…Environmental protection agencies have been established and have been accorded increasing powers, while national ministries of the environment have been formed and are no longer consigned to the peripheries of government (Rootes, 2003).…”

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Understanding Chinese rural protests through a social movement lens: a study of the Wukan protest

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Rapid urbanisation in China has led to large scale land acquisition to support urban growth. As Chinese rural land is owned collectively and administered by the Villagers' Committee (VC) of each village, rural residents are sometimes excluded from bargaining while governments forcefully acquire land, often with low compensation, compulsory acquisition and corruption among village leaders. These disadvantages have generated discontent in some villages in recent years. With land issues prompting 65 per cent of Chinese rural protests, as well as a host of similar protests around the world, the incidence and forms of rural protest have been a topic of considerable interest among scholars internationally. However, the distinct mechanisms of rural protest induced by land acquisition in China have not been studied thoroughly, as this research aims to do.The Wukan protest is a typical case of a rural protest linked to the transfer of village land to urban land. The village is located in Lufeng City at the Southern coastline of China. Resistance against land acquisition emerged there from 2009 and turned to protest on 21st September 2011 when villagers launched a demonstration. The protest ended three months later, on 21st December 2011.Due to the duration of the protest activities and the large number of people involved, the protest shares some similarities with a social movement. Using the Wukan protest as a case study, this thesis addresses three principal questions: How does local protest in rural China develop and evolve?How effective is local protest in bringing about socio-political change in rural areas? To what extent can local protests be understood as forming part of a broader rural social movement in China? By answering these questions, the causes, process of development and outcomes of rural protest in China will be better understood. Also, connections between rural protest and broader social movements will be explored.Social movement theory is applied to answer the research questions. It is argued that political opportunities, resources and strategies determine the trajectory of collective oppositional actions.The Political Process model of McAdam (1982), which incorporates these elements to analyse social movements, offers a framework for explaining the Wukan protest. McAdam regards conditions such as changing political opportunities that expand protesters' power; well organised ii indigenous organisational strength; and a process of cognitive liberation as three requisites for raising a social movement. This thesis borrows these concepts to explain the outburst of the Wukan protest. Moreover, conceptions of social movements proposed by theorists such as Tilly (2005) By analyzing these data and using social movement theory as my analytical lens, I find three crucial elements for the emergence of collective action in Wukan. To begin with, people became angry about their current situation because they felt they had been deprived of their land -which the former village cadres sold without their conse...

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Activism

Saunders¹

2013

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

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Activism is, in many ways, the most important activity undertaken by social and political movements. In short, activism is the action that movements undertake in order to challenge some existing element of the social or political system and so help fulfill movements' aims. Thus, activism includes a wide range of different actions, from participating in a forum to sabotaging property. Not only does activism vary according to the type of action chosen, but also depending upon the target or targets, which could be local citizens, corporations, local or national governments, international financial institutions, the capitalist system, and so on.

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Environmental Protest in Western Europe

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Among ‘Bananas’ and ‘Backyards’: A Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Risk and Scientific Literacy on the Attitude towards a Waste Co-incinerator in Italy

Among ‘Bananas’ and ‘Backyards’: A Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Risk and Scientific Literacy on the Attitude towards a Waste Co-incinerator in Italy

Understanding Chinese rural protests through a social movement lens: a study of the Wukan protest

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