Studying environmental movements in a rapidly changing world

Environmental movements grew rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s. By the 1990s, environmental NGOs were becoming institutionalized, internally and in their external relations, in many countries, yet environmental protests did not simply subside - in several countries, they even rose or revived. Developments in the last decade raise questions about the present and future shape of environmental movements and about the means of studying them. The increasing fragmentation of audiences for and the changing character of mass media impact upon the strategies of environmental campaigners and pose problems for researchers, particularly those who have relied on newspapers as a public record of environmental protest. Moreover, the rise of new communications technologies and social media have added online petitions, twitterfeeds and flash mobs to the repertoires of environmental activists - thereby they have created new opportunities as well as new difficulties both for campaigners and for researchers.

With:
Christopher Rootes, Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology, Director, Centre for the Study of Social & Political Movements, School of Social Policy, Sociology & Social Research, University of Kent, Canterbury
Dr. Jan-Henrik Meyer, New York University Berlin, Moderation

The lecture is part of the conference "Transformations of the Ecologoy Movement" which takes place on the 14th and 15th November. For further details see the full program (PDF).

A cooperation of Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and the New York University Berlin

Place:
Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Eldenaer Straße 35
10247 Berlin
 

Information:       
Dr. Christoph Becker-Schaum
Director Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis
E-Mail becker-schaum@boell.de
T 030 / 285 34 -265