This page intentionally left blank The Making of Green Knowledge The Making of Green Knowledge provides a wide-ranging introduction to the politics of the environment and the development of environmental knowledge Focusing in particular on the quest in recent years for more sustainable forms of socio-economic development, it attempts to place environmental politics within a broad historical perspective and examines the different political strategies and cultural practices that have emerged The Making of Green Knowledge is a uniquely personal exploration of the relationship between sustainable development, public participation and cultural transformation Through a highly accessible mix of theory, practical analysis and personal reflection it seeks to bring the making of green knowledge to life is an American who has lived in Sweden since 1970 and is now Professor of Technology and Society at the University of Aalborg He is co-author with Ron Eyerman of Social Movements: a Cognitive Approach (1991), Seeds of the Sixties (1994) and Music and Social Movements (1998) ANDREW JAMISON The Making of Green Knowledge Environmental politics and cultural transformation Andrew Jamison The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org © Andrew Jamison 2004 First published in printed format 2001 ISBN 0-511-03178-5 eBook (Adobe Reader) ISBN 0-521-79252-5 hardback ISBN 0-521-79687-3 paperback For Margareta She showed me where the berries grow, A green and lovely thing to know Contents List of tables Acknowledgments Introduction page viii ix 1 On the ambiguities of greening 16 Social movements and knowledge-making 45 The dialectics of environmentalism 71 National shades of green 98 The challenge of green business 123 On the dilemmas of activism 147 Concluding reflections 176 References Index 182 203 vii Tables Environmental traditions Phases of environmentalism Cognitive regimes of sustainable development viii page 80 82 179 ... left blank The Making of Green Knowledge The Making of Green Knowledge provides a wide-ranging introduction to the politics of the environment and the development of environmental knowledge Focusing... years later, the politics of the environment – both the talk and the action, the rhetoric and the reality, the theory and the practice – has changed in fundamental ways (Connelly and Smith 1999)... cultures and our personalities And while we are all invited to take part in the greening of the world, the diverse processes of greening, and of green knowledge -making, are filled with ambiguities The