Course Outline -- Week 8

ER 290-8
Environmental Sociology

David A. Sonnenfeld, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Spring 2000

Wk 8 – Contemporary Environmental Movements

Required

Broadbent, Environmental Politics in Japan, Preface (pp. xiii-xvi), ch.’s 1 (pp. 1-41), 3 (97- 133), 4 (pp. 134-153), 5 (154-84), 10 (pp. 331-68)

Recommended

Christen, Catherine, et al. 1998. "Latin American Environmentalism: Comparative Views," Studies in Comparative International Development 33(2):58-87 (RR)

Jamison, Andrew. 1996. "The Shaping of the Global Environmental Agenda: the Role of Non-Governmental Organizations," ch. 10 (pp. 224-245) in Lash et al., Risk, Environment and Modernity (V)

Rootes, Christopher, "Environmental Movements and Green Parties in Western and Eastern Europe," pp. 319-348 in Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Wiesenthal, Helmut, "The German Greens: Preparing for Another New Beginning," ch. 12 in Dryzek and Schlosberg, eds., Debating the Earth

Vogel, David. 1999. "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Environmentalism," unpublished ms., 44 pp. (RR)

Other

Dowie, Losing Ground
Dunlap & Mertig, eds., American Environmentalism (V)
Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring (V)
Gould, et al., Local Environmental Struggles
Keck & Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders
Luke, Capitalism, Democracy and Ecology
Mellor, Feminism & Ecology
Merchant, Radical Ecology
Salleh, Ecofeminism as Politics
 
Schnaiberg, "The Environmental Movement," ch. 8 (pp. 362-411) in The Environment (V)
 
Sessions, ed., Deep Ecology for the 21st Century 

Sturgeon, Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory, and Political Action

Warren & Erkal, eds., Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature (V)

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