Climate Action Upsurge - 9781138941595

Taylor & Francis

Climate Action UpsurgeThe Ethnography of Climate Movement Politics\nAuthor(s): Stuart Rosewarne, James Goodman, Rebecca Pearse\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138941595, 978-1138941595\nSynopsis\nIn the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda. Evidence of global warming and accelerating greenhouse gas emissions created a new sense of urgency and, despite consensus on the need for action, the growing failure of international climate policy engendered new political space for social movements. By 2007 a climate justice movement was surfacing and developing a strong critique of existing official climate policies and engaging in new forms of direct action to assert the need for reduced extraction and burning of fossil fuels. Climate Action Upsurge offers an insight into this important period in climate movement politics, drawing on the perspectives of activists who .