Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

THEMATIC

Session 065: Environmental Activism as a Form of Insurgency
Room: Kimball Room

Sponsor: Environment and Technology

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University

Description: 

This session explores the insurgent nature of environmental activism. We invited papers that consider activism as challenging ideologies and practices that suppress or deny access to environmental justice, those that view activism as promoting social justice and directly confronting environmental harms committed by powerful actors and endemic to neoliberal market perspectives.

The session invites a critical discussion of the nature of environmental activism, its limitations, enforced constraints and why activism is as important now as it ever has been when powerful interests seek to exploit natural resources and roll back environmental governance and regulation.

Papers:

“Organizing against Mining Companies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Frames, Tactics and the Digital Divide in Southern Mexico,” Alessandro Morosin, University of La Verne and James Everett Hein, National University of Singapore

“Resisting Transnational Corporations: Lesotho and Kerala’s Water Battles through a Critical Environmental Justice Lens,” Joshua Cafferty, Utah Tech University

“The Brothers: A Case Study of Environmental Justice Activism,” Tanesha A. Thomas, Montclair State University

“Can Permaculture Offer a Transformative Climate Adaptation? Perspectives of Ecological Civic Initiatives in Turkey,” Nahide Konak, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Cihan Ertan, Duzce University, Ali Babahan and Mehmet Veysel Elgin, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University

“Slow Activism and the Criminalization of Contemporary Environmental Protest,” Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University

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