060. Should climate activists pivot their campaigning strategies from agitation to broadening public support? Aseem Prakash
NGO Soul + Strategy
English - July 21, 2023 16:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBNon-Profit Business Management ngo leadership management international Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Summary
Environmental activism, environmental justice and equity concerns: what, if anything, is challenging about holding all of these three concerns at the same time?
Can a better integration or balance be achieved between these 3 concerns?
To what extent is radical activism cyclical in nature because it is hard to keep activists motivated for peak public mobilization moments?
In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Aseem Prakash, Professor of Political Science and Founding Director at the Center on Environmental Politics at the University of Washington, Seattle (USA) on climate change activism by nonprofits and social movements. Aseem does much of his research together with Nives Dolsak, also a Professor at the University of Washington.
Aseem’s Bio:
Professor of Political Science; Walker Family Professor; Director, Center for Environmental Politics at the University of Washington, SeattleFormer Assistant Professor in Strategic Management and Public Policy at the George Washington University in Washington DCObtained his Ph.D. at the Dept of Political Science and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana UniversityMBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, IndiaNives’ Bio:
Nives Dolsak is Professor in Sustainability Science and Director of the School of Marine & Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington, Seattle, USAVisiting professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
We discuss:
Resources:
Aseem’s LinkedIn Profile
Academic article on climate change activism motivated museum vandalism (open access!): https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-023-00054-5
Example of a article by Aseem and Nivek for broader audiences: HERE
Their article on South Africa and coal: