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Environmental activism and the construction of risk: implications for NGO alliances

✍ Scribed by Timothy Forsyth

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 127 KB
Volume: 11
Category: Article
ISSN: 0954-1748
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1328(199907/08)11:5<687::aid-jid600>3.0.co;2-2

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✦ Synopsis

This paper argues that academic approaches to environmental policy that equate political pluralism with the representation of plural environmental rationalities are overoptimistic and avoid the complex ways in which risk is constructed. The paper discusses two cases of industrial poisoning in Thailand to illustrate how alliances between factory workers and middle class activists strengthened political campaigns against the state but failed to identify the nature of risk or address workers' concerns. It is argued that academic debates need to acknowledge the pragmatic nature of both environmental knowledge and NGO alliances, and therefore seek more eective, inclusive public fora for assessing risk.

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