Fisher Saving Ourselves

From Climate Shocks to Climate Action
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-55787-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Society and the Environment

Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action—but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fisher, Dana R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. No One Else Is Going to Save Us: Understanding the Social Side of the Climate Crisis
2. Saving Ourselves Is a Long Game: Why Our Institutions Keep Failing to Act on Climate
3. Saving Ourselves Involves Taking Power Back for the People
4. Saving Ourselves Won’t Be Popular and Will Be Disruptive
5. Saving Ourselves Will Take a Disaster (or Many)
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dana R. Fisher is the director of the Center for Environment, Community, and Equity and a professor in the School of International Service at American University. Her books include Activism Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America (2006) and American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave (Columbia, 2019).