Bill McKibben’s influence on U.S. climate change discourse: Shifting field-level debates through radical flank effects

Organization and Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 213-233

  Schifeling, Todd ^a   Hoffman, Andrew J ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change politics; Cultural change; Divestment; Field level change; Institutional theory; Network text analysis; Organizational fields; Radical flank effect; Social movements

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85048652747     PISSN: 10860266     EISSN: 15527417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1086026617744278     Document Type: Article

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