Thesis
Expert activism in the alternative agriculture movement, are experts shadow mobilized?
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2012
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/100298
Abstract
This study focuses on the engagement of scientists and experts with the issues of GE and the Alternative Agriculture Movement (AAM). Experts are in a unique position to shape the movement by guiding the framing of the issues as well as providing legitimacy for the grievance claims of farmers and consumers before public, political and peer-expert audiences. This study seeks to demonstrate the important connections between the institutional resources available to experts participating in the political economy of the AAM and how these institutions support or restrict the network structures of expert activists. Frickel's work on "shadow mobilizations," as hidden networks of expert activists, ultimately guides the theory building of this thesis. I utilize a mixed methodological approach including formal network analysis, qualitative interviewing, ethnography and analysis of secondary data. Ultimately, this study expands our understanding of shadow mobilization through comparisons between the AAM and the Environmental Justice Movement where mobilizations of expert activists are manifest (2010; 2011).
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- Title
- Expert activism in the alternative agriculture movement, are experts shadow mobilized?
- Creators
- Rebekah Lynn Torcasso
- Contributors
- Scott Frickel (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525155801842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis