Back to Search
Start Over
Are Environmental Social Movements Socially Exclusive? An Historical Study from Thailand
- Source :
-
World Development . Dec2007, Vol. 35 Issue 12, p2110-2130. 21p. - Publication Year :
- 2007
-
Abstract
- Summary: Environmental social movements in developing countries are often portrayed as democratizing but may contain important social divisions. This paper presents a new methodology to analyze the social composition and underlying political messages of movements. Nearly 5000 newspaper reports during 1968–2000 in Thailand are analyzed to indicate the participation of middle and lower classes, and their association with “green” (conservationist) and “red-green” (livelihoods-oriented) environmental values. Results show middle-class “green” activism has dominated forests activism, but lower-class “red-green” activism has grown for forests and pollution. Newspapers, however, portray all environmentalism as “democratization,” suggesting that the possible exclusiveness of some environmental norms is unacknowledged. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
- Subjects :
- *SOCIAL movements
*ACTIVISTS
*SOCIAL psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0305750X
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- World Development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 27455706
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.01.005