Encounters with the Super-Citizen
Neoliberalism, Environmental Activism, and the American Heritage Rivers Initiative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3016950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thaddeus Countway Guldbrandsen, Dorothy C Holland, Dorothy Holland |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 124-134 |
| Publication date | 2001-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/anq.2001.0025 |
| OpenAlex | W2004063105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 4 |
In this article we argue that while new kinds of political activism are flourishing in local areas, increasing partnership with economic development interests poses serious challenges to the political efficacy of environmental activism. We examine the shifting terrain of local political activism within the context of the American Heritage Rivers Initiative, a new federal program designed to facilitate environmental preservation, economic development, and cultural preservation along U.S. rivers. This article is based on research done along the New River in North Carolina and Virginia with a collection of local groups organized into a regional partnership. That partnership exemplifies emerging forms of local political action under new regimes of state power and hybrid partnerships. We argue that if hybrid forms of environmental activism spread, with their emphasis on neoliberalism and ecological modernization, they will likely pose challenges for grassroots politics and, as has been the case along the New River, blunt the critical edge of the environmental critique
Agency (philosophy) · Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Ecological modernization · Environmental ethics · Environmental movement · Environmental politics · Environmentalism · General partnership · Geography · Grassroots · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · American Environmental and Regional History · Law · Public Administration · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure
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The role of local knowledge in the governance of blue carbon
Written in Sand
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Preempting to nothing
Neoliberalizing negawatts
Resisting and Reinforcing Neoliberalism
Eating in a Neoliberal Environment
The Devil is in the (Bio)diversity
It's about Time
Plastic politics
Entrusting the Commons
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,79 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |