The Making of Green Knowledge : Environmental Politics and Cultural Transformation

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- From recollections... -- ...to reconnections -- ...and conceptual tools -- 1 On the ambiguities of greening -- From environmental protection to cultural transformations -- Reinventing nature -- An environmental social science? -- Between incorporation and resistance -- Dichotomies of thought -- A broader perspective -- An emerging culture -- NOTES -- 2 Social movements and knowledge-making -- From movements to institutions -- The scientific revolution as a cultural process -- Social movements and industrial knowledge -- Marxism and populism -- The movements of the interwar years -- Social movements and the making of technoscience -- NOTE -- 3 The dialectics of environmentalism -- From traditions to movements -- Environmental traditions -- The mobilization of traditions -- The period of awakening -- The age of ecology -- Political challenges -- Patterns of differentiation -- The global agenda -- Environmentalism in an entrepreneurial age -- NOTE -- 4 National shades of green -- From vision to reality -- Styles of governance -- Discursive frameworks -- Movement legacies -- Sweden in the 1990s -- A Danish model? -- American shades of green -- NOTE -- 5 The challenge of green business -- From opposition to coop(era)tion -- Networks of green commerce -- The roots of the network -- The making of a network -- Members of the network -- The network in action -- From network to business -- From movement intellectuals to network brokers -- NOTES -- 6 On the dilemmas of activism -- From critique to resistance -- The varieties of activism -- Community environmentalism -- Professional environmentalism -- Militant environmentalism -- Personal environmentalism -- Building bridges, making spaces -- NOTES -- 7 Concluding reflections -- A summing-up.