“May 68”, mobilizations environmentalists and sociology Environmental

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Wilson José Ferreira de
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/3288
• topic: Social Movements; Intellectual Traditions; Environmental Sociology; Movimentos Sociais; Tradições Intelectuais; Sociologia Ambiental

The emergence of studies on environmentalism is related to the mobilizations that occurred in “May of 68” and their consequences in Europe and the U.S.A. This work examines the relationship between the rise of protests and demonstrations linked to May of 68, the main theoretical and methodological changes that guided the studies on the environmental mobilizations and the intellectual and institutional conditions for the formation and exercise of the social sciences. Based on a comparison with the international literature, we demonstrate that the national production has been characterized by the large number of case studies focused on the evaluation of the “socio-environmental impacts” of economic and political development and on the alternative strategies represented by the mobilizations, as well as the difficulty of establishing theoretical and conceptual points of departure.