Political environmentalism: Glass interests, modern values or postmodern feelings?

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Political environmentalism has conventionally been understood as representing class interests or modern left‐libertarian values. However, there have also been attempts to see environmentalism as a political expression typical of postmodern society. This article takes the ‘cleavage’ concept as its theoretical starting point and goes on to suggest what postmodernism and environmentalism should be taken to mean within such a political sociological framewort a distinct constellation of structure, culture and organization. The empirical part applies a set of Norwegian survey data, and presents two main findings: (i) postmodern values seem to represent a distinct and autonomous set of values which (ii) influences environmental attitudes (positively and negatively) and environmental political action (only negatively).

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