Dialectics of institutionalisation: The transformation of the environmental movement in Germany

Brand, Karl‐Werner

doi:10.1080/09644019908414437

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“…'framing') to increase the effectiveness of social movement activity (Brand, 1999;Chesters & Welsh, 2004;Tarrow, 1994), and the role of the mass media in disseminating environment movement messages (Pakulski & Crook, 1998) The organizations addressed a spectrum of environmental issues (e.g. sustainable agriculture and social education including cooperative practices, Aboriginal land and sea management, radioactive and toxic waste dumps).…”

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A Community Psychology View of Environmental Organization Processes

Dean

Bush

2007

American J of Comm Psychol

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Environmental organizations have a key role in addressing environmental degradation and promoting ecologically and socially sustainable societies. Psychosocial processes underpin their work, however, empirical studies of these processes remain underdeveloped. This paper presents the first stage of a community psychology study involving in-depth interviews with leaders in environmental organizations. Qualitative analysis revealed a framework of five types of psychosocial processes that assist environmental organizations to achieve a range of outcomes, namely: problem analysis; influencing decision-making; inter-organizational relationships; community participation and knowledge transfer. These psychosocial processes were used in substantially different ways depending on the organizations' orientation. Three key orientations towards outcomes were evident: on-ground conservation, developing innovation in specialist areas and transforming wider social institutions. The findings provide a model of the psychosocial processes involved in fostering sustainable futures and exemplify the contribution of community psychology to this critical global issue.

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Section: Key Informantsmentioning

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A Community Psychology View of Environmental Organization Processes

Dean

Bush

2007

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…However, as most glaringly seen in the case of Syriza and its capitulation to the European Council on debt relief, the institutionalisation of anti-austerity movements and its connection with political parties also raises serious political dilemmas, ones that are already familiar from previous protest waves (e.g. Brand 1999). A radical engagement with the State should however not mean abandoning a role of criticism and contestation from civil society towards the state and political parties.…”

Section: Reclaiming Democracy From the Ground Up: Anti-oligarchic Citmentioning

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The indignant citizen: anti-austerity movements in southern Europe and the anti-oligarchic reclaiming of citizenship

Gerbaudo

2016

Social Movement Studies

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This article discusses the change in collective identity and political vision introduced by antiausterity movements in Southern Europe in comparison with previous protest movements, and in particular the anti-globalisation movement and autonomist and anarchist activism. It focuses on the emergence of a discourse of citizenship that lies at the core of the new protest wave. It raises questions about the meaning of this "citizenism" and how it reflects contemporary conflicts and the dilemmas of post-crisis society. The analysis draws from analysis of movement documents, including manifestoes of protest organisations as Democracia Real Ya in Spain, and Real Democracy Now in Greece, and interviews with 40 protest organisers and participants from the Indignados movement and the Aganaktismenoi movement.

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“…It is, according to Blühdorn (1995, p. 210), a 'mature' environmental movement increasingly based upon a new generation which approaches the 'ecological problem' scientifically and is now concerned not with the defence of nature but with the pursuit of sustainability (cf. Brand, 1999). Perhaps it is because German EMOs have become so successfully institutionalized and are now able to act in partnership with corporations that they have experienced the paradox of rising subscriptions from members and supporters but declining numbers of activists.…”

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The transformation of environmental activism: Activists, organizations and policy‐making

Rootes

1999

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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Dialectics of institutionalisation: The transformation of the environmental movement in Germany

Cited by 101 publications

References 8 publications

A Community Psychology View of Environmental Organization Processes

A Community Psychology View of Environmental Organization Processes

The indignant citizen: anti-austerity movements in southern Europe and the anti-oligarchic reclaiming of citizenship

The transformation of environmental activism: Activists, organizations and policy‐making

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