Lost legacy: How 1989 marked the rise of environmental politics

Corry, Olaf (2014) Lost legacy: How 1989 marked the rise of environmental politics. British Politics and Policy at LSE (25 Jun 2014). Website.

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Olaf Corry argues that Eastern European revolutions of 1989 did not just mark the defeat of the socialist utopian ideal but also the rise of new political ideas associated with political ecology: the physical and human limits to the modern expansionary project, people-powered politics and a growing global awareness. 1989 was a staging post in the relaunch of older concerns about resources and planetary limits, bringing a substantive critique of modernist ideas of untrammelled material expansion and state power into the history of European revolutions.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy
Additional Information:	© 2014 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited:	27 Apr 2017 07:29
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 19:22
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/74438

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