Environmentalism in Ireland

Two Versions of Development and Modernity

Bibliographic Data

ID2356375
AuthorsHilary Tovey (corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume8
Issue4
Pages413-430
Publication date1993-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0268-5809 • E-ISSN: 1461-7242
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/026858093008004002
OpenAlexW2122746024
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited6

The paper proposes a conflict interpretation of environmentalism, seeing it as a vehicle through which the cultural politics of Irish development are reproduced and enacted. Contrasting two environmental movements in Ireland, one based around established conservation organisations and a developing environmental 'knowledge elite', the other located within populist movements for rural community development, the author argues that these articulate opposed understandings of recent Irish history: as a process of cultural modernisation or as one of peripheral (under)development. The two movements are also characterised by very different attitudes to the part played in environmental matters by the Irish state. The paper ends by discussing how recent intervention into environmental management by the state itself may ironically be providing the ground on which some dialogue between the two movements is becoming possible

Ecological modernization · Elite · Environmental ethics · Environmental movement · Environmental politics · Environmental sociology · Environmentalism · Irish · Modernity · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Irish and British Studies · Law

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