Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism : : Fossil-Free Social Movements in South Africa.

• Superior document: The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture Ser.
• Author: Finkeldey, Jasper.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2022.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (162 pages)

Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism: Fossil-Free Social Movements in South Africa analyses social struggles over damaging new fossil fuel projects in the Global South with a focus on South Africa, Africa's biggest fossil fuel emitter.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Neo-Extractivism, Fossil Fuels, and the Climate Crisis in South Africa -- Post-Apartheid State and Social Movements -- Structure of the Book -- Part I Theory and Practice of Resource Extractivism -- 2 Resource Frontiers and Hegemony -- Resource Frontiers -- Organising Hegemony -- 3 Fossil Fuel Dependency in South Africa -- Emergence and Consolidation of the Historical Bloc Around Fossil Fuels -- Post-Apartheid Fossil-Fuel Politics -- Regulatory Framework -- Conclusion -- Part II Social Movements Fighting Fossil Fuels -- 4 Counter-Hegemonic Social Movements -- Spaces of Social Movement Struggles -- Leadership in Social Movement Action -- An Ethnographic Approach to Social Movements -- Reflexivity and Participant Research Practices -- Interviews -- Observation and Participant Observation -- Data Analysis and Triangulation -- 5 Leadership and Framing in Fuleni's Anti-Coal Movement -- Place History and Land Use in Fuleni -- A Moral Shock: Proposed Mining in Fuleni -- The Save Our iMfolozi Wilderness Leadership Group -- Frame Setting: Starting a Conservation Campaign -- Limits of the Conservation Frame and Frame-Shifting -- Frame Shifting: Listening to the Frontline Community -- Limits of the Community Frame -- Frame Extension: Anti-Mining, Fossil Fuels, and Climate Change -- Conclusion and Discussion: Frame Processes in the iMfolozi Wilderness Campaign -- 6 Movement Tactics for a Frack Free South Africa -- A Moral Shock: Potential Fracking in KwaZulu-Natal -- The Frack Free Leadership Group -- Four Tactics Against Fracking -- Blocking and Delaying -- Educating -- Connecting -- Prefiguring -- Discussion and Conclusion: How to Fight Fracking and Coal?.

7 Fighting Fossil Fuels Around the World -- Germany: 'Coal Exit Is a Handicraft' -- The German State(s) and Coal Mining -- Ende Gelände and the Fossil-Fuel Frontier -- Blocking and Delaying -- Educating -- Connecting -- Prefiguring -- Conclusion: Germany's fossil-fuel frontier -- Common Frontlines: Fossil-Free Struggles in South Africa and Germany -- Global Struggles at the Fossil-Fuel Frontier -- Global Social Movement Framing -- Green New Deal -- De-Growth -- Environmental Justice -- Global Social Movements Tactics -- Appendix: Demographics of Population in Field Sites -- Index.