Light Environmentalists and Quiet Activism
Identity Alignment among Participants in Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Programs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2155644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaime Mccauley (Sociology, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 375-391 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Spectrum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0273-2173 • E-ISSN: 1521-0707 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02732173.2019.1704328 |
| OpenAlex | W3000460485 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 51 |
The environmental movement has seen declining political activism over the last 20 years, while engagement in nonpolitical conservation behaviors has increased (e.g., recycling, carrying reusable shopping bags, etc.). Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring bridges gaps in movement tactics by allowing participants to engage in public, collective pro-movement behavior without engaging in politics or protest. In light of this, I analyze how VWQM participants conceptualize their role in and relationship to an evolving environmental movement, articulate group (collective, movement) and individual identities (personal, activist), and use VWQM as a vehicle for identity alignment. Results indicate : (1) Participants see VWQM as a unique opportunity to support the environmental movement in a way congruent with their personal identity, (2) participants readily accept collective and movement identities associated with the environmental movement but resist identities related to activism, and (3) movement participation and identity development is jointly influenced by processes of movement institutionalization and neoliberalism
Collective identity · Environmental movement · Environmentalism · Institutionalisation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social movement · Sociology · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Law · Social Media and Politics · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Self, Identity, and Social Movements (Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, V. 13)
Agency, Democracy, and Nature
A review of citizen science and community-based environmental monitoring
Social Structural and Social Psychological Bases of Environmental Concern
Environmental Movements
Environmental Identity
The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
Environmental Movements, Market-Based Approaches, and Neoliberalization
On social movements and culture
Fighting King Coal
Avoiding Politics
The Art of Moral Protest
Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
Is ‘activist’ a dirty word? Place identity, activism and unconventional gas development across three continents
Realizing justice in local food systems
The Ebb and Flow of Environmentalism
Group Dynamics and Resource Availability of a Long-Term Volunteer Water-Monitoring Program
Hurricane Katrina, contamination, and the unintended organization of ignorance
The ironic impact of activists
Social Movement Identity
Explaining Public Support for the Environmental Movement
We Can Help the People Who Can Make a Difference”
Better Safe Than Sorry
Individual- and community-level impacts of volunteer environmental monitoring
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Social Movement Identity and Belief Systems
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Survivor
I'm not an activist, though I've done a lot of it
Liberalism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Governance
Double-edged swords? Collective identity and solidarity in the environment movement1
Resource Mobilization by Local Social Movement Organizations
Buckets of Resistance
Devolution in the Woods
Waxing or waning? The changing patterns of environmental activism
Not an Environmentalist
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Eco-habitus or Eco-powerlessness? Examining Environmental Concern across Social Class
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Collective Identity and Social Movements
Disavowing Politics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |