Litigation as a Strategy for Environmental Movements Questioned: An Examination of Bergama and Artvin-Cerattepe Struggles

Gönenç, Defne

doi:10.1080/19448953.2021.2006004

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“…Especially after the mid-1980s, with the effect of rising neoliberalism, the number of both local environmental resistance movements and environmental organizations in an institutionalized form rose. Bergama and Artvin-Cerattepe environmental movements are among the significant environmental struggles that started in these years (Gönenç, 2021;Özen and Doğu, 2020). After the Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP) came to power in 2002, environmental justice movements have sped up and spread around the country rapidly as a response to destructive neoliberal policies to defend rural and urban life spaces.…”

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The impact of cognitive filters on strategic actions and relationships: an analysis from local environmental advocacy in the Aegean Region, Turkey

Can,

Gonenc

2024

Reg Environ Change

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Although several internal and external factors may influence environmental non-governmental organizations’ (ENGOs) action sets and networking behaviors, their values and priorities deserve special attention. Existing research highlights the importance of mobilizing resources and utilizing political opportunities in environmental advocacy; however, there is relative silence regarding the impact of how ENGOs cognitively position themselves in a contested field. Through a quantitative analysis of survey data from 117 local ENGOs in the Aegean Region of Turkey, we examine whether and how organizational identity, scope of environmental issues, and core environmental purpose (transactional or informational) as three cognitive filters play a role in shaping grassroots ENGO activities and relationships with diverse actors. A set of regression models indicates that claiming an activist identity, pursuing a higher number of environmental issues, and having a confrontational goal significantly influences local ENGOs’ strategic actions and the type and intensity of their external ties. These findings contribute to the discussions around resource mobilization theory and the political opportunity structure framework by highlighting the importance of intangible, less visible, ideological dimensions, and of cognitive framing in mobilizing for environmental causes.

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The impact of cognitive filters on strategic actions and relationships: an analysis from local environmental advocacy in the Aegean Region, Turkey

Can,

Gonenc

2024

Reg Environ Change

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“…It should be noted that litigation is a frequent movement tactic to challenge the formal EIA decisions in Turkey, when participation in EIA-related administrative decision-making has not been possible. However, activists across all three movements I studied point out that it is too costly, lengthy and arduous, as well as leading to fragile gains due to the lack of oversight in the execution of court decisions or introduction of new laws that enable companies to continue to pursue the projects (see also Gönenç, 2022). These experiences are in line with the green criminological critique regarding limits of environmental law-making and enforcement in contexts where states tend to prioritize corporate interests and economic growth (see e.g.…”

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Activists as Knowledge Producers: How Can Grassroots Activism Contribute to Green Criminological Scholarship?

Sargin

2023

The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology

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Social movements are sites of knowledge production. Green criminologists are interested in activism both as an informal response to environmental harms/crimes and in their explorations of a possibility of activist green criminology. In this chapter, I call attention to a related issue -the significance of knowledge produced in social movements. Drawing on my research on resistance movements against hydropower in Turkey, I discuss how movement knowledge can contribute to green criminology in relation to the (i) complexity of harm and victimization, (ii) politics of knowledge in identifying harm, and (iii) limits of formal processes in preventing harm. I conclude by highlighting the importance of recognizing activists as subjects who produce knowledge, in academic engagement with activism.

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Litigation as a Strategy for Environmental Movements Questioned: An Examination of Bergama and Artvin-Cerattepe Struggles

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The impact of cognitive filters on strategic actions and relationships: an analysis from local environmental advocacy in the Aegean Region, Turkey

The impact of cognitive filters on strategic actions and relationships: an analysis from local environmental advocacy in the Aegean Region, Turkey

Activists as Knowledge Producers: How Can Grassroots Activism Contribute to Green Criminological Scholarship?

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