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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/76700| Title: | Environmentalists in Malta : the growing voice of civil society |
| Other Titles: | Contested Mediterranean spaces : ethnographic essays in honour of Charles Tilly |
| Authors: | Boissevain, Jeremy Gatt, Caroline |
| Keywords: | Civil society -- Malta Civil society -- Malta -- History -- 20th century Malta -- History -- 20th century Environmentalists -- Malta -- History -- 20th century Environmentalism -- Malta Environmentalism -- Malta -- History -- 20th century |
| Issue Date: | 2000 |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Citation: | Boissevain, J., & Gatt, C. (2000). Environmentalists in Malta : the growing voice of civil society. In M. Kousis, T. Selwyn & D.Clark (Eds.), Contested Mediterranean spaces : ethnographic essays in honour of Charles Tilly (pp. 92-121). Berghahn Books. |
| Abstract: | In 1964, civil society in newly independent Malta was relatively mute, cowed for centuries by fear of, and obedience to, various colonial rulers, the powerful Roman Catholic Church and, since independence, a highly centralized government. Within four decades Maltese environmentalists succeeded in giving a strong voice to the islands' 'civil society: a diffuse term that has been defined as 'that segment of society that interacts with the state, influences the state and yet is distinct from the state' (Chazan 1992: 281 in Fisher 199/: 487). This study explores how they accomplished this, looking at new trends, patterns and prospects for the environmental movement in Malta. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/76700 |
| Appears in Collections: | Melitensia Works - ERCGARES |
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