POL 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collective Identity, Waves, Deep Ecology
5 Mar 2018
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= broad networks of people and organizations engaged in collection action in pursuit of environmental beliefs. Why does this shift in thinking happen. How should we value the environment (see the variety of representations in views) 1: diversity of goals and methods, national in character but with international networks. Broader (and more difficult to describe) than other new social movements. In western democracies the what" was generally about economic conflicts. Class, trade and tariffs, taxation (capital vs labour) Other cleavages subsumed within the central economic cleavage. Canada is in a land that extracts things (agriculture) e. g. wheat - farmers would ship and sell it around the world (tariffs) Materialist politics - only relative when we can place them on a spectrum. In canada right (conservative) left (ndp) this is how important this conflict was as canada still uses this. Left - people who tend to favour a big state (provides many welfare programs e. g. cpp)
