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Protest, politics and produce : a resource account of anti-genetically modified organism activism

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Date
15/01/2015
Author
McCauley, Darren
Keywords
Resource mobilisation
Social movements
Environmental movements
Action repertoires
Activism
Genetically modified organisms
GE Environmental Sciences
NDAS
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Abstract
Activism research is over-reliant on social psychological frameworks emphasising framing or ideological-based explanations. The current underdevelopment of resource-based accounts requires urgent attention from social movement scholars. Stressing the rationality of social movement actors, resource mobilisation theory is used to assess and understand the empirical validity of resource-driven social mobilisation. Anti-genetically modified organism (GMO) activism in France is selected as a uniquely ripe context for exploring resource mobilisation. A resource-based examination reveals why, when and how key anti-GMO movement actors differentiated their strategies on the basis of protest, politics and produce. A new framework is proposed to encompass key variables around material, human and network-based resources. It is argued that resource mobilisation research designs need to move beyond financially driven causal arguments.
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McCauley , D 2015 , ' Protest, politics and produce : a resource account of anti-genetically modified organism activism ' , Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability , vol. 20 , no. 1 , pp. 34-49 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.818955
Publication
Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.818955
ISSN
1354-9839
Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2013 Taylor & Francis. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.818955
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8755

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