| dc.description.abstract | Several sociologists have regarded social movements as one of the agents of social transformation. Emergence, dynamics, and development of social movements not only indicate major societal transformations, but are also signs of societal conditions with the capacity to influence social structures. This article intends to provide insight into the life of Indonesian environmental movements, by presenting a case study on their vigorous activities. This study, additionally, aims to contribute to a better understanding of non-western environmental movements, by implementing new social movement concept and the resource mobilization theory in the Indonesian context. The research results indicate that the environmental movements have experienced emergence, coalescence, bureaucratization, and decline in their activity. The movements are more of typical idealist activisms, and more effective at mobilizing resources and escalating challenges. The success of the movements studied is largely determined by rational activities and adaptive actions. The contribution of new social movement concept and resource mobilization theory to the contemporary study on environment movement is that, both concept and theory have emphasized the significance of the institutionalized actions, the rationality of the movement actors, the strategic action and the role of the movements as an agent of change. © 2019, City University of Hong Kong. All rights reserved. | |
