Post-apocalyptic environmentalism : the green movement in times of catastrophe / Carl Cassegård, Håkan Thörn.
Cassegård, Carl, author.; Thörn, Håkan, author.
2022
GE195
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Title Post-apocalyptic environmentalism : the green movement in times of catastrophe / Carl Cassegård, Håkan Thörn.
Author Cassegård, Carl, author.
ISBN 9783031132032 (electronic bk.)
3031132033 (electronic bk.)
3031132025
9783031132025
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13203-2
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 137 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-13203-2 doi
Call Number GE195
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.72
Summary This book analyses how the environmental movement has developed three overarching narratives that co-exist and compete within it. The first is the narrative of green progress, which has been prominent from the start in environmentalist thought and which is today expressed in the idea of sustainable development and in eco-modernism. The second is the apocalyptic narrative, which urges us to act in order to avert a future catastrophe and which rose to prominence with Rachel Carson and other classics of post-war environmentalism and experienced a renaissance with the climate activism of the 2000s. The third is the postapocalyptic narrative according to which catastrophe is already an unavoidable fact. The centrepiece of the book is its discussion of the postapocalyptic narrative, which has become influential in the recent decade, especially in the wake of the disillusionment following the failed climate summit in Copenhagen 2009. Climate change, resource exhaustion, pollution and species extinction signal that catastrophes have already become realities here and now for an enormous number of people and other lifeforms. The book probes the possibilities and limitations of the environmental movement in grappling with these issues and turning them into relevant action. Carl Cassegard is Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Hakan Thorn is Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Note Includes index.
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Available in Other Form POST-APOCALYPTIC ENVIRONMENTALISM.
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Chapter 1: Narrative and Nature Interest
Chapter 2: Green Progress
Chapter 3: The Apocalypse
Chapter 4: Postapocalypse
Chapter 5: Towards a Critique of the Environmental Movement.

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