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Environmental movements in space‐time: the Czech and Slovak republics from Stalinism to post‐socialism
Author(s) -
Sarre Philip,
Jehlička Petr
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00260.x
Subject(s) - slovak , czech , socialism , movement (music) , context (archaeology) , politics , social movement , space (punctuation) , economic system , political economy , political science , resource (disambiguation) , identity (music) , state socialism , economic geography , economy , geography , sociology , economics , law , archaeology , computer network , philosophy , linguistics , communism , physics , computer science , acoustics , capitalism , aesthetics
To demonstrate the role of space and time in social movements, the paper analyses the evolution and context of the environmental movement in the Czech and Slovak republics from 1948 to 1998. It shows that the movement's identity was formed under socialism and that political opportunity and resource availability changed markedly over time, as did its organisational and spatial structure. The movement played a significant part in the collapse of the socialist regime, but in the 1990s was marginalised in the interests of building a market economy and an independent Slovakia. Nevertheless a diverse and flexible range of groups existed by the late 1990s. The successive space‐times allow analysis of the multiple and changing variables that influence the geography of social movements.