Hayes, Graeme, Cammiss, Steven, Doherty, Brian and Saunders, Clare (2024). Extinction Rebellion’s Disobedient Environmental Citizenism. Environmental Politics ,
Abstract
We examine the public protest of Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the UK as a specific political practice. We do so through our observation of the plea hearings of activists charged with public order offences during the April 2019 London ‘Rebellion’, focusing on those pleading guilty at the first opportunity. We show how these narratives establish the values and beliefs of these activists, including their relationships to existing state agencies and institutions, the extent and nature of their public duties and the corresponding rights they encode, and the definition of the political community they represent. Drawing on the importance of embodiment in the critical environmental citizenship literature, we highlight how these narratives reveal tensions and inconsistencies between disobedient action and structural critique, as they reveal a ‘disobedient environmental citizen’ whose orientation is primarily based on an individualised civic duty in the service of the localised rights of future generations.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2406183 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Sociology and Policy College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities |
Additional Information: | Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Civil disobedience,citizenship,ethnography,embodiment,Extinction Rebellion,Social Sciences(all),SDG 13 - Climate Action |
Publication ISSN: | 1743-8934 |
Last Modified: | 23 Dec 2024 09:05 |
Date Deposited: | 19 Sep 2024 15:40 |
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Published Date: | 2024-09-20 |
Published Online Date: | 2024-09-20 |
Accepted Date: | 2024-09-15 |
Authors: |
Hayes, Graeme
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Cammiss, Steven Doherty, Brian Saunders, Clare |
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