Introduction to the Special Issue on “Social Movements and Private Environmental Governance”

Lyon, Thomas P.

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“…The GMO activists’ turn to market-based strategies in the face of regulatory impasse reflected similar efforts made in other movements (Auld 2020 ; Challies 2012 ; Konefal 2013 ; Lyon 2020 ; Negowetti 2020 ). Early celebration over such strategies’ ability to transform the food system was soon met with concern over their potential to reinforce neoliberal processes, however.…”

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Biotechnology activism is dead; long live biotechnology activism! The lure and legacy of market-based food movement strategies

Pechlaner

2023

Agric Hum Values

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Scholarly debate over the transformative potential of neoliberal, market-based, food movement strategies historically contrasts those who value their potential to reform the food-system from the inside against those who argue that their use concedes the primacy of the market, creates citizen-consumers, and undermines overall movement goals. While narrow case studies have provided important amendments, the legacy of such strategies requires impacts to be evaluated both contextually and more broadly than the specific activism. This study thus conceptualizes the ‘case’ of U.S. biotechnology market activism expansively, drawing on interviews with 25 activists from diverse organizations to investigate the legacy of two food-labeling movement strategies (one public and mandatory, one private and voluntary). The results support that the legacy of market strategies extends more broadly than the immediate initiative. They also confirm that the consequences of such neoliberalized strategies are most productively assessed contextually and applied, rather than categorically—as most clearly illustrated by the counterintuitive results of the failed mandatory labeling effort. Of the two market strategies, voluntary labeling demonstrated the most problematic relationship to broader movement goals of food system transformation, in part because of the greater potential for overlapping credence claims and in part due to the risks of niche market logic.

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Biotechnology activism is dead; long live biotechnology activism! The lure and legacy of market-based food movement strategies

Pechlaner

2023

Agric Hum Values

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Environmental Legal Mobilization

Vanhala

2022

Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci.

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The mobilization of law to address the degradation of the environment implicates a wide range of institutions, actors, and materials. This article maps developments in the study of environmental legal mobilization. It examines the different theoretical approaches that account for why and how groups mobilize the law (or do not), including explanations focusing on law; legal opportunity structures; resources; and/or ideas, identities, and knowledge. It then considers some of the methodological challenges of studying environmental legal mobilization and highlights recent efforts to overcome them and broaden the scope of the analysis. The article then identifies four trends that are shaping the mobilization of law: ( a) changing forms of environmental law and regulation; ( b) shifts in the political landscape, including repression of civil society and the undermining of the rule of law; ( c) the growing diversity of the environmental movement; and ( d) the cumulative impacts of environmental and climate degradation on the very institutions, processes, and resources available for the mobilization of law. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Volume 18 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Introduction to the Special Issue on “Social Movements and Private Environmental Governance”

Cited by 2 publications

References 11 publications

Biotechnology activism is dead; long live biotechnology activism! The lure and legacy of market-based food movement strategies

Biotechnology activism is dead; long live biotechnology activism! The lure and legacy of market-based food movement strategies

Environmental Legal Mobilization

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