Climate Politics And The Climate Movement In Australia
Aug 2012 · Melbourne Univ. Publishing
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Climate change is the hottest topic of the twenty-first century and the climate movement a significant global social movement. This book examines the broad context of Australian climate politics and the place of the climate movement within it. Acting from aboveê are the most powerful forcesãcorporations and governments, both Labor and Coalitionãwith the media framing the issues. Climate movement actors in the middleê include the Australian Greens, major environmental and climate organisations, think-tanks, academics, public intellectuals and the union movement. Acting from belowê are the numerous local climate action groups and various regional and national networks. This lowest level is the primary location of the climate movement; and grassroots mobilisation the source of its vitality. To advocate a safe climate and climate justice, the book ends by offering a vision for an alternative Australia based upon the principles of social equity and environmental sustainability.
Climate change is the hottest topic of the twenty-first century and the climate movement a significant global social movement. This book examines the broad context of Australian climate politics and the place of the climate movement within it. Acting from aboveê are the most powerful forcesãcorp...
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Verity Burgmann is Professor of Political Science in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She has published widely in the area of the history and politics of radical movements, both labour movements and new social movements such as the green movement. Her books include In Our Timeê: Socialism and the Rise of Labor (1985), A Peopleês History of Australia (1988), Power and Protest (1993), Revolutionary Industrial Unionism (1995), Green Bans, Red Union (University 1998), Unions and the Environment (2002), Power, Profit and Protest (2003) and Changing the Climate (2011).Hans A. Baer, an anthropologist and development studies specialist at the University of Melbourne, has published 18 books and some 170 book chapters and journal articles on a variety of topics, including Mormonism, African American religion, socio-political life in East Germany, critical medical anthropology, medical pluralism in the US, UK, and Australia, and the Australian climate movement. He is the co-author, along with Merrill Singer, of Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health: Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions (Left Coast Press, 2009). Baer has also authored Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System (AltaMira Press, 2012).
Verity Burgmann is Professor of Political Science in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She has published widely in the area of the history and politics of radical movements, both labour movements and new social movements such as the green movement. Her bo...
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