Holding Tender Views in Tough Ways: Political Economy and Strategies of Resistance in Green Politics

In: The British journal of politics & international relations, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 614-625

Abstract

A review essay on books by (1) Neil Carter, The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U Press, 2001); (2) John S. Dryzek, David Downes, Christian Hunold, & David Schlosberg, Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Norway (Oxford, UK: Oxford U Press, 2003); (3) Brian Doherty, Ideas and Actions in the Green Movement (London: Routledge, 2002); (4) Matthew Paterson, Understanding Global Environmental Politics: Domination, Accumulation, Resistance (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2001); & (5) Joan Martinez-Alier, The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflict and Valuation (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2002).