Background
Jamison, Andrew was born on August 22, 1948 in Santa Monica, California, United States. Son of Saunders Eliot and Barbara (Berch) Jamison. arrived in Sweden, 1970.
(Environmental issues throughout the world are increasingl...)
Environmental issues throughout the world are increasingly becoming a permanent feature in political and everyday life. This series looks at the social and political aspects of the environmental crisis. International and multi-disciplinary in scope, the series aims to provide scholarly and up-to-date studies of some of the key issues facing environmental movements both in the past and in the present. This book is a systematic comparative analysis of environmentalism in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands over the last 30 years, showing how each country has developed its own "shade" of green. The authors pinpoint four stages which the three countries share, and describe the political and cultural forces which have pushed environmentalism in different directions. They argue that Denmark's vital "grass roots" environmental movement, successful in stopping nuclear energy, has links with the 19th century co-operative movement; that a long tradition of pragmatism in Holland has resulted in a broad and pluralistic collection of environmental groups; and that, because environmental issues have been actively embraced by the established political culture, Sweden now boasts the second largest parliamentary green party in Europe.
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Music and song are central to modern culture--social movements to cultural change. Building on their studies of the sixties culture and the theory of cognitive praxis, the authors examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and the formation of new collective identities through the music of activism. Specific chapters examine American folk and country music, black music, music of the sixties, and the transfer of the American experience to Europe. This highly readable book is among the first to link social movement and cultural theory.
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"The Sixties." The powerful images conveyed by those two words have become an enduring part of American cultural and political history. But where did Sixties radicalism come from? Who planted the intellectual seeds that brought it into being? These questions are answered with striking clarity in Andrew Jamison and Ron Eyerman's book. The result is a combination of history and biography that vividly portrays an entire culture in transition. The authors focus on specific individuals, each of whom in his or her distinctive way carried the ideas of the 1930s into the decades after World War II, and each of whom shared in inventing a new kind of intellectual partisanship. They begin with C. Wright Mills, Hannah Arendt, and Erich Fromm and show how their work linked the "old left" of the Thirties to the "new left" of the Sixties. Lewis Mumford, Rachel Carson, and Fairfield Osborn laid the groundwork for environmental activism; Herbert Marcuse, Margaret Mead, and Leo Szilard articulated opposition to the postwar "scientific-technological state." Alternatives to mass culture were proposed by Allen Ginsberg, James Baldwin, and Mary McCarthy; and Saul Alinsky, Dorothy Day, and Martin Luther King, Jr., made politics personal. This is an unusual book, written with an intimacy that brings to life both intellect and emotion. The portraits featured here clearly demonstrate that the transforming radicalism of the Sixties grew from the legacy of an earlier generation of thinkers. With a deep awareness of the historical trends in American culture, the authors show us the continuing relevance these partisan intellectuals have for our own age. "In a time colored by 'political correctness' and the ascendancy of market liberalism, it is well to remember the partisan intellectuals of the 1950s. They took sides and dissented without becoming dogmatic. May we be able to say the same about ourselves."—from Chapter 7
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Jamison, Andrew was born on August 22, 1948 in Santa Monica, California, United States. Son of Saunders Eliot and Barbara (Berch) Jamison. arrived in Sweden, 1970.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy in Theory of Science, U. Gothenburg, Sweden, 1983; Docent, U. Lund, Sweden, 1987.
Lecturer, U. Copenhagen, 1975-1984; associate professor science and technical policy, U. Lund, since 1986. Visiting professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1985-1986. Consultant United Nations Center for Science and Technology for Development, 1985-1986, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1987, United Nations U., 1990-1992.
(Environmental issues throughout the world are increasingl...)
(Music and song are central to modern culture--social move...)
( "The Sixties." The powerful images conveyed by those tw...)
Member Environmental Board, Burlov, Sweden, 1989-1994. Board directors Nordic Summer U., 1979-1981. Member European Association for Study Science and Technology (secretary 1992-1994).
Married Margareta Gromark, April 7, 1982. Children: Emily, Klara.