From Brigades to Blogs: Environmentalism Online in Slovakia 20 Years after the Velvet Revolution

• Authors: Edward Snajdr

Abstracts

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This article examines aspects of contemporary Slovak environmental activist discourse in the digital realm of blogging and cyberspace. It explores this subject by first comparing volunteer brigades and samizdat writing from the late communist period with present digital forms of environmentalism in the new millennium. Current environmental blogs are then analysed according to material, substantive, and discursive aspects as these suggest obstacles and benefits to promoting environmentalism in the wake of political transformation. In examining this issue in one Central and East European context, the paper aims to raise broader questions regarding both research on environmental behaviour and policy in post-socialist Europe as well as the relationships between culture, political consciousness and technology in an age of globalisation.

Keywords

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environmentalism; ecological activism; internet; blogging; postcommunism; Slovakia

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 493–508

Contributors

author

Edward Snajdr

• Department of Anthropology, John Jay College, City University of New York, 899 Tenth Avenue, Room 9.63.19, New York, NY 10019, USA,