Anti-Nuclear Mobilisation and Environmentalism in Europe: A View from Portugal (1976-1986). (1st November 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Barca, Stefania; Delicado, Ana
• Is Part Of: Environment and history. Volume 22:Number 4(2016:Nov.)
• Page Start: 497
• Page End: 520
• Publication Date: 2016-11-01
• Subjects: Nuclear energy -- environmentalism -- protest; Human ecology -- History -- Periodicals; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Periodicals; Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Periodicals; 304.209
• DOI: 10.3197/096734016X14727286515736
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0967-3407

Abstract

Abstract : The article addresses the rise of anti-nuclear mobilisation in Portugal in the 1970s against the backdrop of similar movements across Western Europe. After performing a brief review of the literature on social mobilisation against nuclear energy, an overview is provided of the available sociological literature on environmental mobilisation in Portugal, mostly developed in a comparative southern-European perspective. The second section adds new empirical evidence on Portuguese anti-nuclear mobilisation, and its connection with environmental mobilisation, based on in-depth research conducted through both archival scrutiny and oral history interviews. In the conclusion, a fresh perspective is offered on the contribution of the Portuguese case to the advancement of research on the relationship between anti-nuclear and environmental mobilisation in Western Europe.