Abstract
This chapter employs the players and arenas analytical framework to understand how movement actors participate in the oil-tourism interface, independently from institutional political settings and governmental mediation. The analysis casts light on the different ways in which environmental movement players intervene in multiple arenas related to the oil-tourism interface. This includes conflictual relationships and heightened periods of contention over oil development in political, public, and media arenas. It also includes collaborative relationships in the arenas of the everyday operation of the energy and tourism sectors. This chapter also reveals instances of conflict around renewable energy, hence highlighting the importance of a broader focus on energy systems beyond oil in thinking about how environmental movements intervene in coastal development and energy futures.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Amenta, E., Elliott, T. A., Shortt, N., Tierney, A. C., Türkoğlu, D., & Vann, B., Jr. (2017). From bias to coverage: What explains how news organizations treat social movements. Sociology Compass, 11(3), e12460.
Balsiger, P. (2015). Managing protest: The political action repertoires of corporations. In D. della Porta & M. Diani (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social movements (pp. 653–666). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Bernburg, J. G. (2019). The cascading crisis and the changing base of popular protest: The case of Iceland. Current Sociology, 67(7), 1018–1038.
Bjørst, L. R. (2019). The right to ‘sustainable development’ and Greenland’s lack of a climate policy. In U. P. Gad & J. Strandsbjerg (Eds.), The politics of sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring identity, space, and time (pp. 121–135). London: Routledge.
Burke, M. J., & Stephens, J. C. (2018). Political power and renewable energy futures: A critical review. Energy Research & Social Science, 35, 78–93.
Castells, M. (2009). Communication power. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Cunningham, P. A., Huijbens, E. H., & Wearing, S. L. (2012). From whaling to whale watching: Examining sustainability and cultural rhetoric. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 20(1), 143–161.
Dale, B., & Kristoffersen, B. (2018). Post-petroleum security in a changing Arctic: Narratives and trajectories towards viable futures. Arctic Review on Law and Politics, 9, 244–261.
Diani, M. (2015). The cement of civil society: Studying networks in localities. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Giugni, M. G., & Passy, F. (1998). Contentious politics in complex societies: New social movements between conflict and cooperation. In M. G. Giugni, D. McAdam, & C. Tilly (Eds.), From contention to democracy (pp. 81–108). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Hallgrimsdottir, H. K., & Brunet-Jailly, E. (2015). Contentious politics, grassroots mobilization and the Icesave dispute: Why Iceland did not ‘play nicely’. Acta Sociologica, 58(1), 79–93.
Han, H., & Strolovitch, D. Z. (2015). What the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street illuminate about bystander publics as proto-players. In J. M. Jasper & J. W. Duyvendak (Eds.), Players and arenas: The interactive dynamics of protest (pp. 275–293). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Hannigan, J. (2016). The geopolitics of deep oceans. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
Holzer, B. (2010). Moralizing the corporation: Transnational activism and corporate accountability. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Jasper, J. M. (2010). Social movement theory today: Toward a theory of action? Sociology Compass, 4(11), 965–976.
Jasper, J. M. (2015). Playing the game. In J. M. Jasper & J. W. Duyvendak (Eds.), Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest (pp. 9–32). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Jasper, J. M., & Duyvendak, J. W. (Eds.). (2015). Players and arenas: The interactive dynamics of protest. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Kristensen, P. H., Moen, E., & Lilja, K. (2019). Civilizing business enterprises: The search for a new Nordic growth and development model. In S. Hanninen, K.-M. Lehtela, & P. Saikkonen (Eds.), The Relational Nordic Welfare State: Between Utopia and Ideology (pp. 202–223). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Kristoffersen, B., & Dale, B. (2014). Post petroleum security in Lofoten: How identity matters. Arctic Review on Law and Politics, 5(2), 201–226.
Lenferna, G. A. (2018). Can we equitably manage the end of the fossil fuel era? Energy Research & Social Science, 35, 217–223.
Masson, D. (2015). Institutionalization, state funding, and advocacy in the Quebec women’s movement. In H. Ramos & K. Rodgers (Eds.), Protest and politics: The promise of social movement societies (pp. 79–97). Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
McAdam, D., & Boudet, H. S. (2012). Putting social movements in their place: Explaining opposition to energy projects in the United States, 2000–2005. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
McCauley, D. (2018). Reframing decommissioning as energy infrastructural investment: A comparative analysis of motivational frames in Scotland and Germany. Energy Research & Social Science, 41, 32–38.
McGarry, A., Davidson, R. J., Accornero, G., Jasper, J. M., & Duyvendak, J. W. (2016). Players and arenas: Strategic interactionism in social movements studies. Social Movement Studies, 15(6), 634–642.
Mische, A. (2015). Fractal arenas: Dilemmas of strategy and style in a Brazilian student congress. In J. M. Jasper & J. W. Duyvendak (Eds.), Players and arenas: The interactive dynamics of protest (pp. 55–78). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Nilsson, J. H. (2019). Urban bicycle tourism: Path dependencies and innovation in greater Copenhagen. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 27(11), 1648–1662.
Polletta, F., & Kretschmer, K. (2015). Movement factions: Players and processes. In J. M. Jasper & J. W. Duyvendak (Eds.), Players and arenas: The interactive dynamics of protest (pp. 35–54). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Røttereng, J. S. (2018). When climate policy meets foreign policy: Pioneering and national interest in Norway’s mitigation strategy. Energy Research & Social Science, 39, 216–225.
Slocum, R. (2004). Polar bears and energy-efficient lightbulbs: Strategies to bring climate change home. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22, 413–438.
Smith, J. (2016). When petro-capitalism comes knocking: Community interpretations and responses to the Gros Morne fracking controversy (MA). Memorial University, St. John’s, NL.
Stoddart, M. C. J., & Graham, P. (2018). Offshore oil, environmental movements, and the oil-tourism interface: The Old Harry conflict on Canada’s east coast. Sociological Inquiry, 88(2), 274–296.
Stoddart, M. C. J., & Nezhadhossein, E. (2016). Is nature-oriented tourism a pro-environmental practice? Examining tourism-environmentalism alignments through discourse networks and intersectoral relationships. The Sociological Quarterly, 57(3), 544–568.
Szerszynski, B. (2007). The post-ecologist condition: Irony as symptom and cure. Environmental Politics, 16(2), 337–355.
Widener, P. (2018). Coastal people dispute offshore oil exploration: Toward a study of embedded seascapes, submersible knowledge, sacrifice, and marine justice. Environmental Sociology, 4(4), 405–418.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Stoddart, M.C.J., Mattoni, A., McLevey, J. (2020). Environmental Movement Conflict and Collaboration in the Oil-Tourism Interface. In: Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55944-1_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55944-1_5
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-55943-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-55944-1
eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)