Coalitions, Practices, and Meaning in Environmental Politics: From Acid Rain to BSE
Coalitions, Practices, and Meaning in Environmental Politics: From Acid Rain to BSE
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环境政治中的联盟、实践和意义：从酸雨到疯牛病
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10.1057/9780230523364_13
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2005
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M. Hajer
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M. Hajer
在20世纪80年代末，我研究了环境政治的发展，在此之前，我还没有对这个领域进行过任何详细的研究。鉴于我研究社会运动和政治制度的背景，我对环境运动的“职业”很感兴趣。在20年里，它已经从一场反文化运动转变为一股更主流的政治力量，通过“绿色”政党和专业游说寻求代表和影响力（见Hajer， 1995），实践街头示威、生活方式选择和另类消费的象征性政治（在包括书店、全食商店、着装规范、公共家庭等在内的精心设计和非常明显的城市环路中表达）。经过反思，很明显，环境政治比对抗“环境退化”要重要得多。在生活方式和政治行为方面的风格差异表明，环境政治实际上是一个深刻的“文化政治”领域。环境政治似乎是一个社会反思其记录的阶段：价值观处于危险之中，道德承诺受到质疑，进行政治的形式受到质疑（Hajer, 1996）。
In the late 1980s, I studied developments in environmental politics, a field that I had, until then, not examined in any detail. Given my background studying social movements and political institutions, I was intrigued by the ‘career’ of the environmental movement. In twenty years, it had transformed from a counter-cultural movement, practising the symbolic politics of street demonstrations, lifestyle choices, and alternative consumption (expressed in an elaborate and very visible urban circuit encompassing bookshops, wholemeal food stores, dress codes, communal households, and so on) to a more mainstream political force, seeking representation and influence through ‘green’ parties and professional lobbying (see Hajer, 1995). Upon reflection, it seemed obvious that much more was going on in environmental politics than fighting ‘environmental degradation’. The differences in style, both in terms of ways of life and of conducting politics, signalled that environmental politics was in fact a field of profound ‘cultural politics’. Environmental politics appeared to be a stage at which society reflected on its record: values were at risk, moral commitments were contested and the very form of conducting politics was questioned (Hajer, 1996).