Essays about: "The Swedish Anti-nuclear Movement"

Found 1 essay containing the words The Swedish Anti-nuclear Movement.

  1. 1. 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