ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM ON THE GROUND

ISBN: 9781773850047 Géneros: RNK:JFSL9 Sinópsis: Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale local environmental activism paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences It illuminates the questions that are central to the ongoing evolution of the environmental movement while reappraising the history and character of late twentieth and early twentyfirst environmentalism in Canada the United States and beyond This collection considers the different ways in which Indigenous and nonIndigenous activists have worked to achieve significant change It examines attempts to resist exploitative and damaging resource developments and the establishment of parks heritage sites and protected areas that recognize the indivisibility of cultural and natural resources It pays special attention to the thriving environmentalism of the 1960s through the 1980s an era which saw the rise of major organizations such as Greenpeace along with the flourishing of local and communitybased environmental activism Environmental Activism on the Ground emphasizes the effects of local and Indigenous activism offering lessons and directions from the ground up It demonstrates that the modern environmental movement has been as much a smallscale ordinary activity as a largescale elite one