Mobilising earth first! In Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4328674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Derek Wall |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81-100 |
| Publication date | 1999-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644019908414439 |
| OpenAlex | W1967279549 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 17 |
In 1991 Earth First!, a radical green network inspired initially by the US movement of the same name, mobilised in the UK and has since acted as a catalyst for direct action anti‐road campaigns at sites including Twyford Down in Hampshire and the Mil in East London. Structural factors, both political and economic, have aided its emergence but structural influences ‘do not march in the streets’ or determine the nature of collective action; instead they provide opportunities that must be consciously exploited by key activists or political entrepreneurs. The creation of the anti roads movement of the 1990s is a clear example of how cultural resources may be invoked to activate existing green networks so as to resource accelerated mobilisation
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Collective action · Direct action · Earth (classical element · Environmental movement · Key (lock · Movement (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology · Law
The Making of Green Knowledge
The Role of Adults in “Youth Led” Climate Groups
The transformation of environmental activism
On the Ambiguities of Greening
Citizens’ self-mobilization, motivational factors, and the group of most engaged citizens
Using Radical Environmentalist Texts to Uncover Network Structure and Network Features
The making of green knowledge
Valuing Life Itself
Introduction
Methodological considerations for the special-risk researcher
US environmentalism in comparative perspective
Transforming space and society? The political ecology of education in the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement's Jornada de Agroecología
Reformism and radicalism in the Climate Camp in Britain
Penalty or Payoff? Diversity of Tactics and Resource Mobilization Among Environmental Organizations
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
Music and Social Movements
Motorways versus Democracy
Challenging Codes
Social Movements, Political Violence, and the State
The condition of postmodernity
The Withered ‘Greening’ of British Politics
The new politics and the new social movements
Organizational interlocks between new social movements and traditional elites
The Conditions of Protest Behavior in American Cities
The Strength of Weak Ties
Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
Recruitment to High-Risk Activism
The Strength of Weak Ties
Regulation Theory, Post-Marxism, and the New Social Movements
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,52 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2022 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |