50417 - Environmental Movements and Counter Movements

Description

A range of environmental movements want transformative action that alters institutions, organizations, communities, and/or interpersonal relations. Examples include abolitionist, anti/decolonial, degrowth, ecofeminist, ecoqueer, ecoliberation, environmental and food justice, health, Indigenous sovereignty, and other movements. At the same time, there are counter movements that complicate the social change terrain including conservative, authoritarian populist, denialist, ecofascist, and other right-wing political formations. Environmental sociologists have investigated the operations and outcomes of environmental movements and counter movements across the world, throughout history, and at a variety of scales.

This session calls for theoretically, empirically, or methodologically driven papers that engage with environmental movements and/or counter movements.

Sub Unit

• Section on Environmental Sociology / Environmental Movements and Counter Movements

Presider

• Maricarmen Hernández, Barnard College

Individual Presentations

• Colorblindness and Contributions: How Racial Ideology Moderates Donations to Environmental Social Movement Organizations - Sam L Castonguay, Michigan State University; Dylan Bugden, Washington State University

• Environmental Justice as Movement and Strategy: Non-Profits, Advocacy, and the Contested Boundaries of Social Change - Monika Pareek, Florida State University

• The Bridge-Builder’s Dilemma: Constraint and Opportunity Among Labor-Environmental Brokers - Jasper Cattell, Brown University

• Denial and Misinformation in Defense of the Tar Sands: The Case of a Canadian Think Tank - Timothy Haney, Mount Royal University

• State-Level Climate Obstruction and Discourses of Climate Delay: Insights from Arizona - Phoenix Eskridge-Aldama, Northern Arizona University

Session Organizer

• Joshua Sbicca, Colorado State University