Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/330776 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations [ISSN:] 1573-7888 [Volume:] 36 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 405-420
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
Is the environment a political issue or is it above politics? Do those who fight for environmental protection, the environmental civil society organizations (ENGOs), see the environment as an issue of politics or prefer to conceptualize it as a post-political phenomenon? In most societies, politics is viewed hesitantly. It is equated to activities undertaken legitimately only by the political parties and happening only in a parliamentary space. Political activities are perceived to be a call for destroying the social order and sometimes even an invitation for violence. However, whether the society views the issue of the environment as a political or an apolitical issue impacts the policy decisions. Hence, whether those pursuing environmental protection in environmental civil society organizations (ENGOs) see the environment as political or apolitical is highly significant. Through a survey of 119 ENGOs in the Aegean region of Turkey, this article explores the perspectives of ENGOs and examines how they perceive the nexus between the environment and politics.
Subjects: 
Depoliticization
Environment
Environmental civil society organizations
Post-politics
Turkey
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