Exploring the Challenge of Bridging Social Movement Activism for Climate Protection and Environmental Justice in Boston,Massachusetts.

详细信息   

• 作者：Loeppky ; Ninya.
• 学历：M.A.
• 年：2014
• 毕业院校：Tufts University
• Department：Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
• ISBN：9781303746888
• CBH：1552979
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：2915666
• Pages：137

文摘

This thesis investigates the challenge of bridging social movement activism for climate protection and environmental justice in the city of Boston using a two-pronged approach. It combines a large-scale structural analysis of movements and organizations with qualitative results from personal interviews with activists and funders. It finds that due to their basis in underprivileged and privileged communities, the two movements developed independently both geographically and ideologically, and both have struggled to create deep-seated political change that can oppose the entrenchment of neoliberalism. Since 2008, opportunity has ripened for a societal critique of neoliberalism and four new movement building organizations have arisen locally which have transformed both movements and provided greater possibilities for collaboration. Vestiges of the historical divide remain and provide significant barriers, but a number of activists have developed the intercultural competency and community credibility necessary to effectively bridge movement work and act as pioneers for climate justice.