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Discuss how ‘environmentalism’ can be explained with new social movements approach.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Politics and Society

The new social movements (NSM) approach holds that post-1960s movements in advanced societies are organised around identity, culture and quality of life rather than class and redistribution. Environmentalism is its textbook case, from the anti-nuclear and Green movements of Western Europe to today's climate strikes. The approach explains a great deal about environmentalism, but in…

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  • How the NSM approach explains environmentalism
  • Where the approach falls short in India
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