Review article

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TRENDS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS

Branka Galić ; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb

Abstract

Although an interest for the institutionalization of environmental movements within official political system is present for a long time, doubts of environmentalists and technocrats in view of their institutionalization are not still solved. It is about doubts on autonomy/control of movements, responsibility/almightiness and irrevocable dependency upon scientific expertise.
In the late '70s, environmentalist movements, as well as some other "new social movements", have abandoned original symbols and myths that have helped them to be established, so that in the '80s some new problems arose. Melucci named that as "regressive utopia".
In the text main orientations are mentioned, as well as some indicators of the state of environmentalist movements in the leading Western countries and in the Eastern Europe. In front of Eastern Europe environmentalist movements, there appeared an additional problem — decisions about the way of acting, as well as political parties or non–governmental organizations — while there has not always been borne in mind how each of the chosen ways should express a new democratic political model based upon the mode of responsibility.

Keywords

action; environmental movements; environmentalists; ideology; institutionalization; technocrats

Hrčak ID:

141471

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/141471

Publication date:

15.10.1996.

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