Hairy Hippies and Bloody Butchers

The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-528-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 451 g

Reihe: Protest, Culture & Society

In the popular imagination, no issue has been more closely linked with the environmental group Greenpeace than whaling. Opposition to commercial whaling has inspired many of the organization’s most dramatic and high-profile “direct actions”—as well as some of its most notable failures. This book provides an inside look at one such instance: Greenpeace’s decades-long campaign against the Norwegian whaling industry. Combining historical narrative with systems-theory analysis, author Juliane Riese shows how the organization’s self-presentation as a David pitted against whale-butchering Goliaths was turned on its head. She recounts how opponents successfully discredited the campaign while Greenpeace struggled with internal disagreements and other organizational challenges, providing valuable lessons for other protest movements.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riese, Juliane

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Tier- und Umweltschutz
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutzorganisationen, Naturschützer
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Observing Greenpeace through the Systems-theoretic Lens

Chapter 1. Antecedents: Greenpeace, Norway and Whales before the Greenpeace Whale Campaign in Norway

Chapter 2. ‘Greenpeace Should Be a People Persuader and Stand United Internationally’: Greenpeace in Sweden and Denmark

Chapter 3. ‘Campaigning Against Each Other’: Greenpeace Norway

Chapter 4. ‘Fuck Greenpeace, but Save the Whales’: Greenpeace Campaigning in Norway in 1998-99

Chapter 5. ‘From Direct Actions to Dialogue’: Greenpeace Campaigning in Norway from 2000 onwards

Conclusion: Fuck Greenpeace, but Save the World

Appendix: Some Additional Systems-theoretic Explanations

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Riese, Juliane
Juliane Riese is Associate Professor of Business Economics at Østfold University College in Halden, Norway.