Hairy Hippies and Bloody Butchers: The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway

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In the popular imagination, no issue has been more closely linked with the environmental group Greenpeace than whaling. Opposition to commercial whaling has inspired many of the organization's most dramatic and high-profile "direct actions"-as well as some of its most notable failures. This book provides an inside look at one such instance: Greenpeace's decades-long campaign against the Norwegian whaling industry. Combining historical narrative with systems-theory analysis, author Juliane Riese shows how the organization's self-presentation as a David pitted against whale-butchering Goliaths was turned on its head. She recounts how opponents successfully discredited the campaign while Greenpeace struggled with internal disagreements and other organizational challenges, providing valuable lessons for other protest movements. Half-title......Page 2 Series overview......Page 3 Title......Page 4 Imprint......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Figures......Page 7 Acknowledgements......Page 8 Introduction: Observing Greenpeace through the Systems-theoretic Lens......Page 10 Chapter 1: Antecedents......Page 24 Chapter 2: ‘Greenpeace Should Be a People Persuader and Stand United Internationally’......Page 44 Chapter 3: ‘Campaigning Against Each Other’......Page 60 Chapter 4: ‘Fuck Greenpeace, but Save the Whales’......Page 106 Chapter 5: ‘From Direct Actions to Dialogue’......Page 144 Conclusion......Page 156 Appendix......Page 163 Bibliography......Page 174 Index......Page 194 Series listing......Page 201