Snag Your Copy Environmentalism In Ireland: Movement And Activists Scripted By Hilary Tovey Issued As Manuscript

short introduction to the current environmental movement of Ireland that relies on extensive interviewing of a few activists of various affiliations or lack thereof, The researchers find that many environmentalists have a social justice/collective orientation, while others lack a structural awareness and have simply incorporated green behaviors into their personal lives from a "doing my bit" mindset.
The researchers also uncovered a deep distrust in the democratic potential of the Irish state given the resistance, runarounds and confusion experienced by activists who attempt to make use of legitimate channels for social change and sustainability.
While there are a number of formal organizations in Ireland, much of the activism surveyed on the island appears to be grassroots and informal in nature, even when linked to the professionalized organizations.
Activism seems to be best sustained when the activists are embedded within networks of friends, family, and neighbors who share their interest in environmentalism, and there is some evidence to support an intergenerational effect in civic responsibility.
The authors identify that activists are also interested in having this network linked up to sustainability policy making spaces to wrest decisionmaking away from disconnected, capitalistoriented elites and open up citizenship to communities.


While this book is grounded in a compelling application of social movement theory to illustrate Irish environmentalism, prepare to skim, In its effort to prioritize a subjectoriented approach, about half of the text is

direct quotes from interviewees, In some cases the quotes take up an entire page, .