Putting Social Movements in their Place : Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000–2005
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
ISBN-10
1107650313
ISBN-13
9781107650312
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 7th, 2012
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
388 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.60 x 1.60 cms
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Social issues & processesEnergy technology & engineering
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This book reports the results of a comparative study of twenty communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy projects. The authors find the overall level of emergent opposition to the projects very low, and they seek to explain that variation and the impact it had on the proposed projects.
The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over the past three decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become increasingly narrow and ''movement-centric''. When combined with the tendency to select successful struggles for study, the conceptual and methodological conventions of the field conduce to a decidedly Ptolemaic view of social movements: one that exaggerates the frequency and causal significance of movements as a form of politics. This book reports the results of a comparative study, not of movements, but of communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy projects. In stark contrast to the central thrust of the social movement literature, the authors find that the overall level of emergent opposition to the projects has been very low, and they seek to explain that variation and the impact, if any, it had on the ultimate fate of the proposed projects.
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