Pride of Place: Land, community and a popular environmentalism
Instead of focusing on the abstract and transnational in environmental politics, we need to build out from people’s pride in their sense of place. People need to be able to see the change they wish there to be in the world.
- Pride of Place
- Ed Wallis , Natan Doron
- 9 June 2014
Pride of Place investigates how people’s sense of identity, shaped by their attachment to their local area, can sit at the heart of a new politics of the environment.
New public attitudes research uncovers that people think of the environment in terms of the place they live and the people they live there with, not carbon emissions and climate change. The report argues that it is only by restoring faith in the power of collective action in a specific locality that we can restore the momentum environmental politics needs. Pride of Place calls for nothing less than a revolution in the culture of environmentalism, which puts a much greater focus on rebuilding democratic capacity rather than focusing on securing legislative change at a national and supranational level.
Despite the widespread assumption that the environment remains off the table as the political conversation moves from recession to recovery, this report reveals a great deal of hope for a new, more resonant environmental politics if we start from where people live.
You can listen to Jon Cruddas’ speech in response to Pride of Place on Audioboo:
Authors
Fabian membership
Join the Fabian Society today and help shape the future of the left
You’ll receive the quarterly Fabian Review and at least four reports or pamphlets each year sent to your door
Be a part of the debate at Fabian conferences and events and join one of our network of local Fabian societies
Join the Fabian SocietyBe the first to know
Sign up to the free Fabian Society newsletter
Find out about the latest Fabian Society research, publications and events with our regular updates
Sign up today