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The success of civil society groups and social movements in the Lisbon Treaty referendum has increased our focus on the relationship between activism and power. This, the third book in the Ecopolitics Series, presents a series of studies on activists in Ireland between the 1997 and 2007 general elections.

Here, the relationship between activism and research is explored through a series of case studies, interviews and articles. Activists with the Irish Green Party in working class areas of Dublin provide the focus for Irish-Australian anthropologist Michael O'Kane's in depth study on the 1997 election campaign. This is followed by a series of articles by Irish-American political sociologist Liam Leonard, based on his work as a researcher and journalist in Galway between 1999 and 2008.

Issues in Environmental Research: Politics, Anthropology and Sociology provides an chronological account of political events from an activist's perspective, thereby creating further understandings of the motivations of those in society who are so often on outside of the mainstream, but who have influenced events both nationally and throughout Europe in recent political campaigns. As such, this book offers a significant record of activist's perspectives at a pivotal moment in the relationship between the grassroots and the political elite, both in Ireland and in the wider European Union.

The book is available to you to download for free at www.ecopoliticsonline.com

Issues in Environmental Research:

Politics, Anthropology and Sociology

Ecopolitics Series Vol. 3

Liam Leonard & Michael O'Kane

© Irish Greenhouse Press 2008

ISSN: 2009-0315

About the Authors:

Liam Leonard received his PhD in sociology and political science from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2004. He is the Founder and Senior Editor of the Ecopolitics Online Journal www.ecopoliticsonline.com and author of three other books on environmental issues; Politics Inflamed (2005), Green Nation (2006) and the Environmental Movement in Ireland (2008). He has worked as a journalist and has been active politically with the Irish Labour and Green parties. Having worked as lecturer in Social Movements and Environmental Politics in NUIG, he now lectures in Criminology and Sociology in the Sligo Institute of Technology, Ireland.

Michael O’Kane received his PhD in anthropology from Monash University , Victoria , Australia in 2004. He then worked with remote area Indigenous communities in Australia ’s Northern Territory from 2004 until 2006 and as a Senior Anthropologist in cultural heritage management in South Australia . From 2007 he has worked with the Innovation and Change Management Group in the Faculty of Land and Food Resources (now the Graduate School of Land and Environment) in the University of Melbourne, Australia.