Essays about: "Anti-nuclear Movements"

Found 2 essays containing the words Anti-nuclear Movements.

  1. 1. From Backstage to Center Stage: An exploration of Hannes Alfvén’s role(s) as an expert advisor, 1945-1980

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Author : David Bowling; [2018]
    Keywords : expert; expertise; Hannes Alfvén; nuclear power; performance; science and technology; techno-science idealism; history of science; performativity; technocracy; science and democracy; anti-nuclear movements; Cultural Sciences;

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  3. 2. Ecological Modernisation - Isolation and Masculinisation? The Decline of the Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement in Light of Ecomodernism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Angelica Wågström; [2017]
    Keywords : Anti-nuclear Movements; The Swedish Anti-nuclear Movement; Ecological Modernisation; Ecomodernism; Masculinity; Professionalisation; Hegemony; Discourse; Nuclear Power; Political Opportunity Structure; Human Ecology; Sweden; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : What happened to the Swedish anti-nuclear movement after the referendum on nuclear power in 1980? Scholars describe a period of ecological modernisation, affecting discourse and structures within environmental organisations and politics, entailing a professionalisation of NGOs. Drawing on accounts of a decline of the Swedish anti-nuclear movement since the 1980s, this thesis explores how ecomodernism has affected this movement since then. READ MORE