TY - JOUR AU - Gould, Ken PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Environmental Movements JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/environmental-movements SP - AB - In the past 200 years environmental concerns have generated diverse social movements and organizations, both domestically and globally. These environmental movements range widely from conservation to deep ecology, from preservationism to environmental justice, from animal rights to anti-nuclear, from labor struggles to indigenism, from anti-corporate globalization to Wise-Use movements, from the neo-Luddites to the ecological modernizationists. This seminar course will explore the social origins and impacts of these distinct movements and organizations with an emphasis on their conflicting and converging goals, tactics, strategies, ideologies, and constituencies. We will discuss the extent to which this eclectic assortment of interests and ideologies can be defined as a coherent social movement on regional, national, and transnational levels, and explore the coalitions and conflicts generated by a changing global political economy. Each student’s research will focus on a specific movement, a specific organization within that movement, and the relationship of that movement to the larger array of environment-related efforts to generate socioecological change. As a group, the class will develop, design, implement, and analyze an environmental political action whose focus, goals and tactics will be determined by the students. ER -