Climate activism: how communities take renewable energy actions across business and society

By:

Skoglund, Annika

Contributor(s):

Boehm, Steffen

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Business, Value Creation, and SocietyPublication details: Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2024Description: xv, 297 pISBN:

9781108710817

Subject(s):

Climatic changes

DDC classification:

363.738 SKO

Summary: What is activism? The answer is, typically, that it is a form of opposition, often expressed on the streets. Skoglund and Böhm argue differently. They identify forms of 'insider activism' within corporations, state agencies and villages, showing how people seek to transform society by working within the system, rather than outright opposing it. Using extensive empirical data, Skoglund and Böhm analyze the transformation of climate activism in a rapidly changing political landscape, arguing that it is time to think beyond the tensions between activism and enterprise. They trace the everyday renewable energy actions of a growing 'epistemic community' of climate activists who are dispersed across organizational boundaries and domains. This book is testament to a new way of understanding activism as an organizational force that brings about the transition towards sustainability across business and society and is of interest to social science scholars of business, renewable energy and sustainable development. In-depth empirical description of how climate activism has been transformed in a rapidly changing political landscape Explores how transitions towards sustainability happen through a novel knowledge movement engaged with renewable energy Proposes a more inclusive conceptualization of 'epistemic community' to understand how climate activism bridges business and society Identifies relations between climate activism and different forms of commercial activism, such as CEO activism, employee activism, investor activism, and prosumerism Critically engages with the effects of climate activism, particularly how it speeds up the transition of the energy system through a flexible co-production of knowledge (https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/management/business-ethics/climate-activism-how-communities-take-renewable-energy-actions-across-business-and-society?format=PB&isbn=9781108710817)

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Table of content:
Preface
Introduction
1. Boundaryless Activism
2. The Activist-Business-State Conglomeration
3. Activism and Its Collective Force
4. Epistemic Community
5. Climate Activism at Vattenfall
6. Climate Activism via Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
7. Climate Activism in Governmental Authorities
8. Climate Activism via Citizen Groups
9. New Ways of Knowing
10. Horizontal Organising
References
Appendix.
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What is activism? The answer is, typically, that it is a form of opposition, often expressed on the streets. Skoglund and Böhm argue differently. They identify forms of 'insider activism' within corporations, state agencies and villages, showing how people seek to transform society by working within the system, rather than outright opposing it. Using extensive empirical data, Skoglund and Böhm analyze the transformation of climate activism in a rapidly changing political landscape, arguing that it is time to think beyond the tensions between activism and enterprise. They trace the everyday renewable energy actions of a growing 'epistemic community' of climate activists who are dispersed across organizational boundaries and domains. This book is testament to a new way of understanding activism as an organizational force that brings about the transition towards sustainability across business and society and is of interest to social science scholars of business, renewable energy and sustainable development.

In-depth empirical description of how climate activism has been transformed in a rapidly changing political landscape
Explores how transitions towards sustainability happen through a novel knowledge movement engaged with renewable energy
Proposes a more inclusive conceptualization of 'epistemic community' to understand how climate activism bridges business and society
Identifies relations between climate activism and different forms of commercial activism, such as CEO activism, employee activism, investor activism, and prosumerism
Critically engages with the effects of climate activism, particularly how it speeds up the transition of the energy system through a flexible co-production of knowledge

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