Overview
- Engages with both the forms and discourses of protest and the broader political economy that these protests act within and against
- Provides a timely critical engagement with broad appeal about a timely, issue and fills a key gap in the climate mobilization literature
- Offers new audiences an engagement with the tactics and strategies of climate change activism in a historical and political context
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About this book
This book summarises and critiques Extinction Rebellion (XR) as a social movement organisation, engaging with key issues surrounding its analysis, strategy and tactics. The authors suggest that XR have an underdeveloped and apolitical view of the kind of change necessary to address climate change, and that while this enables the building of broad movements, it is also an obstacle to achieving the systemic change that they are aiming for.
The book analyses different forms of protest and the role of civil disobedience in their respective success or failure; democratic demands and practices; and activist engagement with the political economy of climate change. It engages with a range of theoretical perspectives that address law-breaking in protest and participatory forms of democracy including liberal political theory; anarchism and forms of historical materialism, and will be of interest to students and scholars across politics, international relations, sociology, policy studies and geography, as well as those interested in climate change politics and activism.
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Daniel Schmidt is a MSc graduate in Public Policy from the University of Bristol, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Extinction Rebellion and Climate Change Activism
Book Subtitle: Breaking the Law to Change the World
Authors: Oscar Berglund, Daniel Schmidt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48359-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48358-6Published: 10 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48361-6Published: 11 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48359-3Published: 09 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 109
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Sociology, Environmental Policy