Karen Bell Karen.Bell@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer Environmental Management
There is a resurgent interest in, and debate about, inclusive environmentalism. Within this context, it has been alleged that Extinction Rebellion (XR) exclude Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class people. To understand more about whether and how this occurs, and how it might be remedied, we interviewed 40 BAME and working-class people in England and Wales about their perceptions of, and opinions about, XR. We found that, while XR’s tactics and messages have varied across time and place, their discourse and activities, overall, have tended to alienate BAME and working-class people. The interviewees were very concerned about climate change, and supported urgent government action, but they were not interested in being included in XR. To effectively build a social movement against climate change, we, therefore, recommend XR activists go “beyond inclusion” to the transformation of XR and environmentalism more broadly.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 21, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 1, 2021 |
Publication Date | Oct 1, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Jul 26, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 2, 2022 |
Journal | Local Environment |
Print ISSN | 1354-9839 |
Electronic ISSN | 1469-6711 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 26 |
Issue | 10 |
Pages | 1205-1220 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.1970728 |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7581159 |
Beyond inclusion?: Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities
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This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Local Environment. [Bell, K., & Bevan, G. (2021). Beyond inclusion?: Perceptions of the extent to which Extinction Rebellion speaks to, and for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and working-class communities. Local Environment, 26(10), https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.1970728]. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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