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Environmental NGOs, Civil Society and Democratization in Eastern Europe

In: Towards an Environment Research Agenda

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  • Caedmon Staddon

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In this paper the author submits some common understandings aboutenvironmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Eastern Europe to theoretical and empirical scrutiny and finds them wanting. The view that the growth of the environmental NGO sector in Eastern Europe is positively correlated with the development of ‘civil society’ and democratization has been constituted through the hegemonic representations of the West’s own myth of becoming. It is thus doubly inappropriate, for it both distorts our understanding of post-communist realities and deludes us about ourselves. Through the presentation of some detailed case study material from ongoing Bulgarian field research between 1992 and 1997 he exposes some of these distortions and argues that environmental NGOs are more complex and therefore more worthy of study than the mainstream literature gives them credit for. In conclusion, he suggests a number of avenues for the development of interdisciplinary research in the role(s) of environmental NGOs in post-communist transition.

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  • Caedmon Staddon, 2003. "Environmental NGOs, Civil Society and Democratization in Eastern Europe," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Adrian Winnett & Alyson Warhurst (ed.), Towards an Environment Research Agenda, chapter 10, pages 175-196, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-53681-4_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230536814_11
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