R SOC 559
States, Social Movements and the Environment
Winter 2018
Readings
- Eckersley, Robyn. 1990. Habermas and green political thought. Two roads diverging. Theory and Society 19: 739-776. de Shalit, Avner. 1995. Is Liberalism environment-friendly? Social Theory and Practice 21(2): 287-314
- Latour, Bruno. 2004. Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Harvard Univ. Press. Chapter 1, pp. 9-49
- Blüdorn, Ingolfur. 2013. The governance of unsustainability: ecology and democracy after the post- democratic turn. Environmental Politics 22(1): 16-36
- Adam, Barbara. 1996. Beyond the present: Nature, technology and the democratic ideal. Time and Society 5(3): 319-338
- Schnaiberg, A., D.N. Pellow and A. Weinberg. 2002 “The treadmill of production and the environmental state.” Research in Social Problems and Public Policy 10:15-32
- Frank, David John Ann Hironaka and Evan Schofer. 2000. The nation-state and the natural environment over the twentieth century. American Sociological Review 65(1): 96-116
- Mol, Arthur P.J. 2016. The environmental nation state in decline. Environmental Politics 25(1): 48-68
- Norgaard, Kari and Richard York. 2005. Gender Equality and State Environmentalism. Gender and Society 19(4): 506-522
- Hay, Colin. 1996. From crisis to catastrophe? The ecological pathologies of the liberal—democratic state form. European Journal of Social Science Research 9(4): 421-434
- Duit, Andreas, Peter H. Feindt & James Meadowcroft (2016) Greening Leviathan: the rise of the environmental state? Environmental Politics 25(1): 1-23
- Rajan, Sudhir C. 2011. Poor little rich countries: another look at the ‘resource curse.’ Environmental Politics 20(5): 617-632
- Emel, Jody, Matthew T. Huber and Madoshi H. Makene. 2011. Extracting sovereignty: Capital, territory, and gold mining in Tanzania. Political Geography 30: 70-79
- Jasanoff, Sheila & Sang-Hyun Kim. 2013. Sociotechnical Imaginaries and National Energy Policies. Science as Culture 22(2): 189-196
- Hudgins, Anastasia and Amanda Poole. 2014. Framing fracking: private property, common resources, and regimes of governance. Journal of Political Ecology 21: 222-348
- Freudenburg, William R. and Robert Gramling. 1994. Bureaucratic slippage and failures of agency vigilance: The case of the environmental studies program. Social Problems 41(2): 214-239
- Hooks, Gregory and Chad L. Smith. 2005. Treadmills of Production and destruction: Threats to the environment posed by militarism. Organization and Environment 18(1): 19-37
- Nelson, Sara H. 2017. Containing Environmentalism: Risk, Rationality, and Value in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez. Capitalism Nature Socialism 28(1): 118-136
- Malin, Stephanie A., Adam Mayer, Kelly Shreeve, Shawn K. Olson- Hazboun & John Adgate (2017) Free market ideology and deregulation in Colorado’s oil fields: Evidence for triple movement activism? Environmental Politics 26(3): 521-545
- Carter, Angela V. and Emily M. Eaton. 2016. Subnational Responses to Fracking in Canada: Explaining Saskatchewan’s “Wild West” Regulatory Approach. Review of Policy Research 33(4): 393-419
- Goldman, Michael. 2001. Constructing and environmental state: Eco-governmentality and other transnational practices of a ‘Green’ World Bank. Social Problems 48(4): 499-523
- Partzsch, Lena. 2017. ‘Power with’ and ‘power to’ in environmental politics and the transition to sustainability. Environmental Politics 26(2): 193-211. James Goodman & Ariel Salleh (2013) The ‘Green Economy’: Class Hegemony and Counter- Hegemony. Globalizations 10(3): 411-424
- Sager, Jalel. 2016. The crown joules: Resource peaks and monetary hegemony. Economic Anthropology 3: 31-42
- Lash, Scott. 2007. Power after Hegemony Cultural Studies in Mutation? Theory, Culture & Society 24(3): 55–78
- Carroll, William K. 2006. Hegemony, counter-hegemony, anti-hegemony. Keynote Address to the Annual Meeting of the Society for Socialist Studies, York University, Toronto. June 2006. [distributed in class]
- Freudenburg, William R. 2005. Privileged Access, Privileged Accounts: Toward a Socially Structured Theory of Resources and Discourses. Social Forces 84(1): 89-114
- Freudenburg, William R. and Margarita Alario. 2007. Weapons of Mass Distraction: Magicianship, Misdirection, and the Dark Side of Legitimation. Sociological Forum 22(2): 146-173
- Nasiritousi, Naghmeh. 2017. Fossil fuel emitters and climate change: unpacking the governance activities of large oil and gas companies. Environmental Politics 26(4): 621-647
- Wood, Caura L. 2016. Inside the halo zone: Geology, finance, and the corporate performance of profit in a deep tight oil formation. Economic Anthropology 3: 43–56
- McCright, Aaron M. and Riley E. Dunlap. 2010. Anti-reflexivity: The American Conservative Movement’s Success in Undermining Climate Science and Policy Theory Culture Society 27(2–3): 100–
- Greenberg, Stephen. 2017. Corporate power in the agro-food system and the consumer food environment in South Africa. The Journal of Peasant Studies 44(2): 467-496
- Long, Michael A., Paul B. Stretesky & Michael J. Lynch. 2017. Foreign Direct Investment, Ecological Withdrawals, and Natural-Resource-Dependent Economies, Society & Natural Resources 30(10): 1261- 1276
- Verma, Ritu. 2014. Land Grabs, Power, and Gender in East and Southern Africa: So, What's New? Feminist Economics 20(1): 52-75
- Watts, Michael. 2004. Resource Curse? Governmentality, Oil and Power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Geopolitics 9(1): 50-80
- Ciplet, David and J. Timmons Roberts. 2017. Splintering South: Ecologically Unequal Exchange Theory in a Fragmented Global Climate. Journal of World-Systems Theory 23(2): 373-398
- Shum, Robert Y. 2015. Where constructivism meets resource constraints: the politics of oil, renewables, and a US energy transition. Environmental Politics 24(3): 382-400
- Martinez-Alier, Juan. (2002). The Environmentalism of the Poor. Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar. Preface and Chapter 6. [Distributed in class]
- Benford, Robert D. 1993. Frame disputes within the nuclear disarmament movement. Social Forces 71(3): 677-701
- Luke, Timothy W. 2005. The death of environmentalism or the advent of public ecology? Organization & Environment 18 (4): 489-494
- Dreiling, Michael, Nicholas Lougee, R. Jonna and Tomoyasu Nakamura. 2008. Environmental Organizations and Communication Praxis: A Study of Communication Strategies Among a National Sample of Environmental Organizations. Organization and Environment 21(4): 420-445
- Roberts, J.C.D. 2017. Discursive destabilisation of socio-technical regimes: Negative storylines and the discursive vulnerability of historical American railroads. Energy Research & Social Science 31: 86–99
- Pellow, David N. and Hollie N. Brehm. 2015. From the New Ecological Paradigm to total liberation: The emergence of a social movement frame. Sociological Quarterly 56: 185–212
- Allan, Jen Iris & Jennifer Hadden. 2017. Exploring the framing power of NGOs in global climate politics. Environmental Politics 26(4): 600-620
- Hawkins, Roberta and Jennifer J. Silver 2017. From selfie to #sealfie: Nature 2.0 and the digital cultural politics of an internationally contested resource. Geoforum 79: 114–123
- Bailey, Jennifer L. 2009. Norway, the United States, and Commercial Whaling: Political Culture and Social Movement Framing. The Journal of Environment & Development 18(1): 79-102
- Vasi, Ion B., Edward T. Walker, John S. Johnson, and Hui Fen Tan. 2015. “No Fracking Way!” Documentary Film, Discursive Opportunity, and Local Opposition against Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States, 2010 to 2013. American Sociological Review 80(5): 934–959
- Roy, Devparna. 2015. Contesting Corporate Transgenic Crops in a Semi-peripheral Context: The Case of the Anti-GM Movement in India. Journal of World-Systems Research 21(1): 88-105
- Welsh, Ian. 1996. Risk, global governance and environmental politics. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 9(4): 407-420
- Capek, Stella M. 1993. The "environmental justice" frame: A conceptual discussion and an application. Social Problems 40(1): 5-24
- Gasteyer, Stephen and Jennifer Carrera 2013. The Coal-Corn Divide: Colliding Treadmills in Rural Community Energy Development. Rural Sociology 78(3): 290–317
- Khoo, Su-Ming & Henrike Rau. 2009. Movements, mobilities and the politics of hazardous waste. Environmental Politics 18(6): 960-980 McAdam, Doug, Hilary Schaffer Boudet, Jennifer Davis, Ryan J. Orr, W. Richard Scott, and Raymond E. Levitt. 2010. ‘‘Site Fights’’: Explaining Opposition to Pipeline Projects in the Developing World. Sociological Forum 25(3): 401-426
- Rootes, Christopher & Liam Leonard. 2009. Environmental movements and campaigns against waste infrastructure in the United States. Environmental Politics 18(6): 835-850
- Shriver, Thomas E., Alison E. Adams and Stefano B. Longo. 2015. Environmental Threats and Political Opportunities: Citizen Activism in the North Bohemian Coal Basin. Social Forces 94(2): 699–722
- Edge, Sara & John Eyles (2014) The socio-spatial (re)configuration of legitimacy, knowledge, and practice in chemical risk governance: integrating boundary-work and scale-frame analytics. Environmental Politics 23(2): 282-301
- Freudenburg, William R., Robert Gramling, and Debra J. Davidson. 2008. “Scientific certainty argumentation methods (SCAMs): Science and the politics of doubt.” Sociological Inquiry, 78(1): 2-38
- Frickel, Scott, Rebekah Torcasso and Annika Anderson. 2015. The organization of expert activism: Shadow mobilization in two social movements. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 21(3): 305
- Hughes, Hannah R. and Matthew Paterson. 2017. Narrowing the Climate Field: The Symbolic Power of Authors in the IPCC’s Assessment of Mitigation. Review of Policy Research DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12255 Morisse-Schilbach, Melanie. 2015. “Changing the world”: epistemic communities, and the democratizing power of science. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 28(1): 18-26
- Lidskog, Rolf. 2008. Scientised citizens and democratised science. Re-assessing the expert-lay divide. Journal of Risk Research 11(1-2): 69-86
- Inglehart, Ronald. 1995. Public Support for Environmental Protection: Objective Problems and Subjective Values in 43 Societies. Political Science and Politics 28(1): 57-72
- Spaargaren, Gert & Arthur P.J. Mol. 2013. Carbon flows, carbon markets, and low-carbon lifestyles:
- Shove, Elizabeth and Gordon Walker. 2014. What Is Energy For? Social Practice and Energy Demand
- Theory, Culture & Society 31(5): 41–58
- Davidson, Debra J. and Richard C. Stedman. 2017. “Calling forth the change-makers: Reflexivity theory and climate change attitudes and behaviors.” Acta Sociologica, DOI: 0001699317693065
- Feldman, Lauren and P. Sol Hart. 2017. Is There Any Hope? How Climate Change News Imagery and
- Jacques, Peter J. & Claire Connolly Knox. 2016. Hurricanes and hegemony: A qualitative analysis of micro-level climate change denial discourses. Environmental Politics 25(5): 831-852
- Fonte, Maria. 2013. Food consumption as social practice: Solidarity Purchasing Groups in Rome, Italy. Journal of Rural Studies 32: 230-239
- Browne, Paul L. 2017. Reification and passivity in the face of climate change. European Journal of Social Theory DOI: 10.1177/1368431017736412
- Ergas, Christina and Matthew T. Clement. 2016. Ecovillages, Restitution, and the Political-Economic Opportunity Structure: An Urban Case Study in Mitigating the Metabolic Rift. Critical Sociology 42(7
- Phillips, Martin and Jennifer Dickie. 2015. Climate change, carbon dependency and narratives of transition and stasis in four English rural communities. Geoforum 67: 93–109 Spies-Butcher, Ben and Adam Stebbing. 2016. Climate change and the welfare state? Exploring Australian attitudes to climate and social policy. Journal of Sociology 52(4) 741–758
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- 2018-Winter-R-SOC-559-LECTURE-B1 ↗2018
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