Complementarity between the EJ movement and degrowth on the European semiperiphery: An empirical study

Kako se environmentalisti nose s (još jednom) globalnom krizom: otpornost, ranjivost i intersekcijske krize

“…Environmentalism in Croatia was developed in the specific historical context of a nonaligned socialist and transitional semiperipheral country (see Lay & Puđak, 2014;Domazet & Ančić, 2019). In that sense, environmentalism in Croatia has mainly developed from (local) protectionism to issues of participation and public interest, the monitoring of policymaking, environmental justice, and on to being a powerful advocate for environmentally sound development (Branilović & Šimleša, 2009;Lay & Puđak, 2014;Oštrić, 1992).…”

“…The modern environmental movement (EM) relies on the mass mobilization of public, modern science, mass media and social media in the twenty-first century, and the proportionally expanding educated middle-class S o c i o l o g i j a i p r o s t o r population, who see environmental problems as a consequence of modernity (Gandy, 2000;Mertig & Dunlap, 2009;Rootes, 2004). EM adheres to postmodern values (Rootes, 2004), however not exclusively, as current socio-metabolic processes that led to climate change and biodiversity loss draw attention to the material issues of individuals and communities affected by environmental degradation, discussing their modes of and perspectives on survival (Domazet & Ančić, 2019;Zhou et al, 2015).…”

Doughnuts for strategies: A tool for an emerging sustainable welfare paradigm

“…Nonetheless, within this framework, European governments – even the politically reluctant ones – produce clean development strategies, as required by the reformist approach to the challenges of capital accumulation, welfare provision and of addressing the threat that ecological tipping points may be crossed. Of special interest to this study, previous research pointed to a particular attitude to environmentally motivated social transformation among the population of the Eastern European semi-periphery, which contains elements of post-growth-compatible redistribution and environmental protection (Balžekiene and Telešiene, 2017; Domazet and Ančić, 2017). This makes the nations of Eastern Europe predisposed to respond to the holistic policies aimed at a just economic green transition, rather than the merely partial, ineffective and status-quo-preserving policies effected by global burden shifting or superficial greening (Blühdorn, 2017; Briens, 2015).…”