From earth's last islands: The global origins of Green politics

Dann Christine, R.

dc.contributor.author	Dann Christine, R.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2010-05-20T23:46:23Z
dc.date.issued	1999	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10182/1905
dc.description.abstract	Since World War Two the world has undergone a profound economic and political transformation, from an international economy and internationalist politics to a global economy and globalist politics. The Bretton Woods international financial institutions have 'structurally adjusted' Third World countries, and similar structural reforms have occurred in First World countries. The environmental consequences of globalising economic activity have been severe and also global; the social consequences of the structural reform process are equally severe. National sovereignty has been radically compromised by globalisation, and previous nationally-based initiatives to manage the activities of capital in order to mitigate its negative impacts on society and the environment, such as social democrat/labour politics, have ceded their authority to globalism. Green parties have arisen to contest the negative environmental and social consequences of the global expansion of capital, and are replacing socialist parties as a global antisystemic political force. Green politics had its origins in the world-wide 'new politics' of the New Left and the new social movements of the 1960s, and the world's first two Green parties were formed in Australia and New Zealand in 1972. A general history of the global forces which gave rise to Green politics, and a specific history of the first two Green parties, demonstrate the interplay of global and local political forces and themes, and provide an opportunity to redefine the core elements of Green politics.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Lincoln University	en
dc.subject	Green politics	en
dc.subject	politics	en
dc.subject	parties	en
dc.subject	society	en
dc.subject	Values Party	en
dc.subject	United Tasmania Group	en
dc.subject	globalisation	en
dc.subject	history	en
dc.subject	Australia	en
dc.subject	New Zealand	en
dc.subject	social democracy	en
dc.subject	labour	en
dc.subject	networks	en
dc.subject	environment	en
dc.title	From earth's last islands: The global origins of Green politics	en
dc.type	Thesis
thesis.degree.grantor	Lincoln University	en
thesis.degree.level	Doctoral	en
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy	en
lu.contributor.unit	Lincoln University	en
pubs.organisational-group	/LU
pubs.publication-status	Published	en