Environmental Movement Interventions in Tourism and Energy Development in the North Atlantic Connecting the Social Movement Societies and Players and Arenas Perspectives

This article compares environmental movement engagement in energy and tourism development in Norway and Iceland by bridging the social movement societies (SMSoc) and the players and arenas perspectives. Results are based on field observation and interviews, as well as web-based textual analysis and...

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Published in:Contention
Main Authors: Stoddart Mark C. J., Mattoni Alice, Nezhadhossein Elahe
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2020
Subjects:
energy sector
environmental movements
oil extraction
players and arenas
social movement societies
tourism
Norway
Iceland
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11585/780807
https://doi.org/10.3167/CONT.2020.080205
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/contention/8/2/cont080205.xml?ArticleBodyColorStyles=trendmd-4284
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Summary:This article compares environmental movement engagement in energy and tourism development in Norway and Iceland by bridging the social movement societies (SMSoc) and the players and arenas perspectives. Results are based on field observation and interviews, as well as web-based textual analysis and a preliminary online survey. Results show that Norway is an institutionalized and multi-level social movement society with a mix of professionalized and grassroots local, national, and international organization. Iceland, by contrast, is a national and episodic social movement society where movement players operate at a national scale and engage in project-specific collaboration or opposition in tourism or energy development arenas. This analysis demonstrates the value of bridging the SMSoc and players and arenas perspectives for international comparative social movements research.

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