‘We feel the responsibility that you shirk’: movement institutionalization, the politics of responsibility and the case of the Swedish environmental movement

Social Movement Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 593-609

  Thörn, Håkan ^a   Svenberg, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

de politicization; environmental movement; institutionalization; Responsibilization; social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981165775     PISSN: 14742837     EISSN: 14742829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2016.1213162     Document Type: Article

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