The new environmentalism?
Subtitle: civil society and corruption in the enlarged EU
By: by Davide Torsello
Series: Urban anthropology
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781409423645; 9781409423652
Subjects: Environmentalism; Social movements; Political participation; Corruption
Description: Drawing on rich ethnographic work in both Eastern and Western Europe, The New Environmentalism? presents a range of case studies to explore the impact of corruption in EU-funded structural development projects. With detailed analyses of the forms and contexts of environmentalism, the book reveals the manner in which corruption is generated by the planning and implementation procedures of the projects, demonstrating in each case that environmental movements emerge as by-products of these processes, using corruption as part of a discourse employed in support of their action against political (regional and state) institutions, as well as to communicate their goals to local citizens. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p. [189]-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: Environmentalism; title: Civil society : ambiguities and opportunities; title: The ethnographic study of corruption; title: Case 1: the motorway transport project in Povaská Bystrica, Slovakia; title: Case 2: road transport development in the Czech Republic : the Brno-Vienna highway; title: Case 3: railway transport project in north-western Italy : the TAV; title: Case 4: the Budapest M0 ring-road; title: Case 5: illegal waste export to Central Eastern Europe; title: Conclusions : inside the green commando.