Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] the Environmental Movement in Ireland
> > New Book by Dr. Liam Leonard, National University of
> Ireland, Galway: The Environmental Movement in Ireland
> http://www.springer.com/east/home/social+sciences?
> SGWID=5-40384-22-173764244-0
> The Environmental Movement in Ireland
> Leonard, Liam
> (with a forward by John Barry).
> 2008, xvi, 236p., Hardcover
> ISBN: 978-1-4020-6811-9
> Due: November 26, 2007
> approx. 119,95 €
> About this book:
> Collective responses to Ireland’s dramatic
> transformation from a primarily agrarian and rural
> society to an industrialised economy obsessed by rapid
> growth and development occurred in two phases:
> Phase One took place between the "No Nukes" protests
> of the late 1970’s when campaigns targeted
> multinational plants or infrastructural projects
> perceived as a pollution threat during years of
> economic stagnation.
> Phase Two occurred after economic buoyancy was
> achieved, as the demands of rapid growth threatened
> communities, the environment and Irish heritage in the
> face of major infrastructural projects such as roads,
> incinerators and gas pipelines.
> Starting with the Woodquay protests in Dublin, the "No
> Nukes" protests at Carnsore Point, the "Shell to Sea"
> campaign in Mayo and the campaign to save Tara from
> destruction, these significant ecological campaigns,
> based on the community’s localised sense of place or
> rural sentiment, have formed the response to these
> challenges which are analysed here using social
> movement theories such as resource mobilisation,
> political opportunity, framing and event analysis.
> Written for:
> Graduate students and researchers interested in
> environment, sociology, political science and Irish
> heritage
> Keywords:
> Ireland
> Irish heritage
> environmental theory
> rural sentiment
> social movements
> Associated article by this author:
> Environmentalism in Ireland: Ecological Modernisation
> versus Populist Rural Sentiment
> Author: Leonard, Liam
> Source: Environmental Values, Volume 16, Number 4,
> November 2007 , pp. 463-483(21)
> Publisher: White Horse Press
> http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/ev/2007/00000016/00000004/ > art00006
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