Protest, politics and produce : a resource account of anti-genetically modified organism activism
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15/01/2015Author
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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
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Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
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Peer reviewed
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1354-9839Type
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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