From environmentalism to transenvironmentalism : the ethnography of an urban protest in modern Istanbul.

How can the examination of action groups, such as the one discussed in this book, help to initiate a discussion of environmental conflicts as societal conflicts? In this work, which is an ethnographic study of a protest born in Istanbul during the late 1990s, the author suggests that the peculiariti...

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Autore principale: Voulvouli, Aimilia
Natura: Ouvrage
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Bern : Peter Lang, 2009.
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Sommario:
  • Turkey and Istanbul: History, Politics and the Struggles of a Global City
  • Arnavutkoy District Initiative: Environmentalism,Transenvironmentalism and the Identities of an Urban Protest
  • The ASG in the Turkish Transenvironmental Campaigns Context
  • ASG: A Social Movement Organisation between 'Civil Society' and the State
  • Conclusions: From Environmentalism to Transenvironmentalism.