Social Movement Theory and the Prospects for Climate Change Activism in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5770397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Doug Mcadam (Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 189-208 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-052615-025801 |
| OpenAlex | W2612315827 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 99 |
| References cited | 73 |
The issue of climate change poses something of a puzzle. For all the attention accorded the issue, climate change/global warming has spawned surprisingly little grassroots activism in the contemporary United States. Drawing on social movement theory, the author seeks to explain this puzzle. The prevailing consensus among movement scholars is that the prospect for movement emergence is facilitated by the confluence of three factors: the expansion of political opportunities, the availability of mobilizing structures, and cognitive and affective mobilization through framing processes. The author then applies each of these factors to the case of climate change, arguing that (a) awareness of the issue developed during an especially inopportune period in American politics, (b) the organizations that arose to address the issue were ill suited to the kind of grassroots mobilization characteristic of successful movements, and (c) the amorphous nature of the issue played havoc with efforts at strategic framing
Contentious politics · Environmental movement · Framing (construction · Grassroots · Mobilization · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Social Media and Politics
Cartography of performative imaginaries in climate movement
Contribution of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) social movement to gender Issue and empowerment of women in Indonesia (1938-2022)
Carbon Captured
Youth Mobilization to Stop Global Climate Change
The influence of social movements on policies that constrain fossil fuel supply
Anti-fossil fuel norms
The wins of the grassroots climate movement in the University of California
Économies morales des conflits d’aménagement
Climate change advocacy
Dissonance between framing & acting for climate justice
How does Extinction Rebellion engage with climate justice? A case study of XR Norwich
Intersectional climate action
Perceptions of Local Leaders Regarding Postdisaster Relocation of Residents in the Face of Rising Seas
Metachangemaking
Extreme Weather Events as Teachable Moments
How Covid-19 Displaced Climate Change
JunkScience
From science to storytelling
From moral motivations to material interests
The rise of #climateaction in the time of the FridaysForFuture movement
Causes and Institutional Responsesof Social Unrest in South African Universities
Metabolismo e inmunidad capitalista. La inmunización del crecimiento ilimitado
Climate change litigation
How inequality fuels climate change
Reducing CO 2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
Turning sportswashing against sportswashers
Reimaging activism to save the planet
Another world is possible? – Climate movements’ bounded politicization between science and politics
Who Shapes Environmental Policy? Power and Politics in the Renewable Portfolio Standards of U.S. States, 1997–2020
The Relationship between Dimensions of Collective Action, Introversion/ Extroversion, and Collective Action Endorsement among Women
Normalising the ‘alter-Europe’ or going beyond this Europe? Italian environmental movements’ perspectives on Europe, democracy and the ecological crisis
Environmental organizations, urbanization, and the carbon emissions of nations
On the Political Genealogy of Trump after Foucault
The logics of frugality
I earned the right to build the next American car”
Towards failed renewable energy communities? Activist attempts to change market conditions in the Danish wind energy market
Social mobilization on climate change and energy
Who delays climate action? Interest groups and coalitions in state legislative struggles in the United States
Politics, profits and climate policies
What is (un)fair? Political ideology and collective action
Community climate change beliefs, awareness, and actions in the wake of the September 2013 flooding in Boulder County, Colorado
Undergraduate experiences with sustainability courses
Investing in climate solutions? An exploration of the discursive power and materiality of fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Scotland
New Climate Activism between Politics and Law
The Social Movement Evolution of Non‐State Armed Groups in the Web 3.0 Era
Green distractions? When did environmental politics become a matter of personal responsibility
The right to atmosphere
The Value of a Valuation Perspective for Theorizing about Social Change and Climate Change
Responses to the Clean Power Plan
Place-based and intergenerational storytelling for youth climate action
Toward a problem-centered approach to social movements
More talk, no action? The link between exposure to extreme weather events, climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour
Climate change and intergroup relations
Water) bottles and (street) barricades
That’s what we think of as activism”
Who feels the impacts of climate change
Between illegal protests and legitimate resistance. Civil disobedience against energy infrastructures
When Ignoring the News and Going Hiking Can Help You Save the World
Communities at Risk for Mobilization
Articulating Resistance
Is there any chance for the poor to cope with extreme environmental events? Two case studies in the Solomon Islands
Local to global escalation of land use conflicts
Emociones, Semillas Nativas y Cambio Climático
The road to success
Now Is the Time to Add More Sociology of Climate Change to Our Introduction to Sociology Courses
Leveraging collective action and environmental literacy to address complex sustainability challenges
Local adaptation policy responses to extreme weather events
Navigating a path
How do crises paralyze and activate? The impact of dissatisfaction on European patterns of participation
Ecomodern Masculinity, Energy Security, and Green Consumerism
Mapping Organizational Theory With SCRIPTS
Do environmental shocks create new coalitions? The development of a contingent coalition after Three Mile Island
Des changements climatiques au changement social
Analyzing Urban Politics
A proper environmentalist wouldn’t do that
Feminist Mobilization and the Abortion Debate in Latin America
Climate Change and the Politics of Responsibility
Determinants of Environmental Conflict
Ideological beasts or effective organizations? Do voters’ views of democracy affect their expectations of political parties
From the Environment to Green Democracy
Reactive, cost-beneficial or undermining legitimacy
The Copenhagen Experiment
Marcos para la acción colectiva en exguerrilleros de Farc-EP
A Contest for Legitimacy
Deciphering posthumanism
Environmental and Climate Justice Activism in Indonesia
Polish Catholic environmentalism as the counterculture movement
From influencing to engagement
Between evidence first and political fight - understanding dynamics of (de-)politicization in US climate movements' future narratives
Extreme weather and climate policy
Framing of environmental issues in voluntary sport organizations
Realizing the Right to Be Cold? Framing Processes and Outcomes Associated with the Inuit Petition on Human Rights and Global Warming
Presidential stories of fear
Protests in Macao Under Chinese Sovereignty
Avoiding Climate Change
Political Generations and the Italian Environmental Movement(s)
The intertwinement of speculative fictions and environmental activism
Sociology and the Climate Crisis
Climate Change and Society
Self, Identity, and Social Movements (Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, V. 13)
Environmental Movements around the World
Lobbying and Policy Change
Agency, Democracy, and Nature
Moving Politics
Regional variation in perceptions about climate change
Challenging Climate Change
Personal Efficacy, the Information Environment, and Attitudes Toward Global Warming and Climate Change in the United States
Communicating science in politicized environments
When Truth Is Personally Inconvenient, Attitudes Change
The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Emotions and Contentious Politics
Cheap and Clean
Rethinking Social Movements
Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement
The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society
Climate Change and Society
The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks
Risk Perceptions, General Environmental Beliefs, and Willingness to Address Climate Change
The Association of Knowledge with Concern About Global Warming
The Logic of Collective Action
The Role of Emotion in Global Warming Policy Support and Opposition
American Risk Perceptions
The Moral Roots of Environmental Attitudes
Reframing climate change as a public health issue
Communicating climate change
The sociology of global climate change
Framing “The Climate Issue”
Are flood victims more concerned about climate change than other people? The role of direct experience in risk perception and behavioural response
Understanding U.S. public support for domestic climate change policies
What is climate change scepticism? Examination of the concept using a mixed methods study of the UK public
Do people “personally experience” global warming, and if so how, and does it matter
Declining public concern about climate change
Comparative public opinion and knowledge on global climatic change and the Kyoto Protocol
Power and interdependence
Who Wants to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Communicating Climate Change
National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime
Turning Personal Experience into Political Attitudes
Global warming" or "climate change
Climate‐Science Communication and the Measurement Problem
The Regime Complex for Climate Change
Why Cooperate? Cooperation Among Environmental Groups in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany
Issue Definition, Information Processing, and the Politics of Global Warming
Social Movement Involvement in the Wake of a Nuclear Accident
The Impacts of Social Movements on the Political Process
Climate change, national politics and grassroots action
Passionate Politics
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
Saving the Creation
The Politicization of Climate Change and Polarization in the American Public's Views of Global Warming, 2001-2010
Ecologies of Social Movements
Specifying the Relationship Between Social Ties and Activism
Recruitment to High-Risk Activism
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
| Unique citing works | 99 |
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| Citations per year | 11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 97 |