Transnational Identity Politics and the Environment - Hardcover

Ignatow, Gabriel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739120158 ISBN 13: 9780739120156

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2007

Synopsis

Transnational Identity Politics and the Environment attempts to transcend current social science paradigms for interpreting the relations between globalization and environmental activism, and to develop an alternative perspective that recognizes the effects of economic globalization, accelerating migration, and the retreat of the state on environmental social movements and politics.

The book is a study in global sociology, and makes use of both quantitative analysis and qualitative case studies. By addressing cutting-edge theories of globalization from several disciplines, using multiple methods and multiple sources of data, and illustrating its major arguments with case studies of Turkey and Lithuania, Transnational Identity Politics and the Environment represents a theoretically daring and empirically compelling approach to environmental politics.

Specifically, the book argues that trends in the direction of economic liberalization, media globalization, migration, and supranational political organization have weakened environmental movements and coalitions that relied on the nation-state and "big science." While such groups have lost popularity and influence, since the 1980s, newer groups linking environmental issues with ethnic and religious activism have flourished. An analyses of global data on the establishment of nonprofit environmental organizations, and case studies of hybrid, transnational ethnic/environmental and religious/environmental groups in Turkey and Lithuania, support the books main arguments on globalization, the state, and contemporary environmental activism.

About this title

About the Author:

Gabriel Ignatow is lecturer in the department of sociology and anthropology at Bar-Ilan University.

Review:

This volume provides an overview of environmental movements away from the western core of environmentalism. It should provide new insights to sociologists, geographers, political scientists and environmental studies researchers. (Gabriela Kütting, Rutgers University)

The environment movement has expanded dramatically around the world, penetrating all sorts of national societies. As it has gained size and strength, it has transcended its original bases in science, and found new bases in all sorts of ethnic and religious and cultural identity groups around the world. Gabriel Ignatow impressively traces this change with quantitative data and with detailed qualitative accounts. He shows convincingly the kinds of diversity within and between countries that result as environmentalism has been incorporated in and adapted to highly variable local contexts. (John Meyer, Stanford University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0739120158
• ISBN 13: 9780739120156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 146