UID:
almafu_9960943603402883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-108-68312-6
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1-108-63042-1
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1-108-69719-4
Series Statement:
Business, value creation, and society
Content:
What is activism? The answer is, typically, that it is a form of opposition, often expressed on the streets. Skoglund and Böhm argue differently. They identify forms of 'insider activism' within corporations, state agencies and villages, showing how people seek to transform society by working within the system, rather than outright opposing it. Using extensive empirical data, Skoglund and Böhm analyze the transformation of climate activism in a rapidly changing political landscape, arguing that it is time to think beyond the tensions between activism and enterprise. They trace the everyday renewable energy actions of a growing 'epistemic community' of climate activists who are dispersed across organizational boundaries and domains. This book is testament to a new way of understanding activism as an organizational force that brings about the transition towards sustainability across business and society and is of interest to social science scholars of business, renewable energy and sustainable development.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2022).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Climate Action through Renewable Energy -- Activism in Transition -- Climate Activism and Community Formation -- Outline of the Book -- 1 Boundaryless Activism -- 1.1 Activism Goes into Business, and Business Goes into Activism -- 1.1.1 Politics as Business Strategy -- 1.1.2 Activism as Business Strategy -- 1.1.3 Activist Entrepreneurs -- 1.1.4 Employee Activism -- 1.1.5 CEO Activism -- 1.2 Critical Perspectives on Commercial Activism -- 1.3 Conclusion -- 2 The Activist-Business-State Conglomeration -- 2.1 Deliberative Democracy - from Citizen Voicing to Activism -- 2.2 Deliberative Democracy, Renewable Energy Communities and Climate Activism in the UK -- 2.2.1 Prosumer Activism -- 2.2.2 Investor Activism -- 2.2.3 Insider Activism -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3 Activism and Its Collective Force -- 3.1 Activism in Transition -- 3.1.1 Activism as Identity Work -- 3.1.2 Activism as Action -- 3.1.3 Activism as Prefiguration -- 3.1.4 Activism as Emotional Work -- 3.1.5 Activism as Community Formation -- 3.2 Community Formation -- 3.2.1 Community and Togetherness -- 3.2.2 Community and Nihilism -- 3.2.3 Community and Locality -- 3.2.4 Community and Capitalism -- 3.2.5 Community and Business -- 3.2.6 Community and Neoliberalism -- 3.3 Conclusion -- 4 Epistemic Community -- 4.1 Communities of Expertise -- 4.1.1 Epistemic Community and Action -- 4.1.2 Epistemic Community and Co-production -- 4.1.3 Epistemic Community and Bildung -- 4.2 Conclusion -- 5 Climate Activism at Vattenfall -- 5.1 The Greening of Vattenfall -- 5.2 Working at Vattenfall -- 5.3 Working at Vattenfall Wind -- 5.4 Working beyond Environmental Management -- 5.5 Personal Politics and Passion at Work.
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5.6 Epistemic Community and Employee Activism -- 6 Climate Activism via Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises -- 6.1 Small R. Energy -- 6.2 Ecotricity -- 6.3 Good Energy -- 6.4 Community Interest Companies -- 6.5 Epistemic Community and Enterprising Activism -- 7 Climate Activism in Governmental Authorities -- 7.1 Clean Government -- 7.2 Local Energy Group -- 7.3 Green Council -- 7.4 Epistemic Community and Insider Activism -- 8 Climate Activism via Citizen Groups -- 8.1 Love Seaside Town -- 8.2 Decarbonised Living Project -- 8.3 Epistemic Community and Prosumer Activism -- 9 New Ways of Knowing -- 9.1 Climate Activism in the Energy Transition -- 9.1.1 Experiment and Do-It-Yourself -- 9.1.2 Share and Do-It-Together -- 9.1.3 Wander and Speed Up -- 9.1.4 Alter and Materialise -- 9.2 Beyond a Polarisation of Community and Business -- 9.3 Conclusion -- 10 Horizontal Organising -- 10.1 Renewable Energy Technology and Horizontal Organising -- 10.2 Outsourced Deliberation and Horizontal Organising -- 10.3 Horizontality and Prefiguration -- 10.4 Epistemic Community -- 10.4.1 Feral Proximity -- 10.4.2 Epistemic Struggles -- 10.4.3 Radical Equality -- 10.4.4 Human Relationality -- Appendix -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108482646
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108697194
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