From a179961b9977d177b91c397ce8e73f1bf882e600 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 15:00:06 +0100 Subject: some readings from chris rootes --- log.md | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'log.md') diff --git a/log.md b/log.md index 10e2ebc..c6cae27 100644 --- a/log.md +++ b/log.md @@ -4,7 +4,48 @@ title: Dissertation log author: Joe Carstairs --- -## 2026-05-13 +## 2026-06-02 + +### @{rootes-2016} + +The main challenge to consumption culture coming from the environmental movement +in the UK is a message of voluntary austerity, which cuts very little ice with +the public. + +### @{rootes-2013} + +Local activists such as those protesting Heathrow expansion made progress with +their demands by getting support from national environmental NGOs, and in order +to do this, they framed their local issue under the master frame of climate +change, making their local concerns into a national issue. + +### @{rootes-2009} + +- Environmental NGOs shot for mass membership in the 1960s and 1970s, and have + been pretty stable since the 1990s +- Environmental NGOs are structurally incapable of participating directly in + direct action, but can and do support such action indirectly +- You could argue whether environmental NGOs are more of a movement or more of a + political lobby +- Environmental NGOs thus have an ambiguous relationship with activists +- Co-operation between NGOs and private firms has generated distrust +- The climate change master frame is useful to environmental NGOs to give them + leverage for their traditional issues, like preventing development on + biodiverse land + +### @{rootes-2012} + +- The environmental movement in England institutionalised and professionalised + in the 1980s and 1990s +- Environmental NGOs are structurally driven to work by lobbying and traditional + political influence, not mass mobilisation +- Environmental NGOs mainly depend on the public for money, not action +- When traditional environmental NGOs have, exceptionally, attended protests, + they have functioned as rituals of belonging rather than effective political + action +- Campaigns against roads, airports, and waste facilities were localised until + they were brought under the master frame of climate change, making e.g. + Heathrow expansion a national issue ### @{rawlyk-2025} @@ -13,6 +54,8 @@ campaigning, they tend to use scientific framings which don't connect with people, but they have more success if they frame climate change within local concerns. +## 2026-05-13 + ### @{restoring-the-wild} My general impression of this book is that reintroducing species is about -- cgit v1.2.3