Almeida, Paul D. 2002. “Los Movimientos Populares contra Las Politicas de Austeridad Económica en América Latina entre 1996 Y 2001.” Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales Y Humanidades (86):177–189.
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Almeida, Paul. 1998. “The Network for Environmental and Economic Justice in the Southwest.” Pp. 159-87 in The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States, edited by D. Faber. New York: Guilford.
Almeida, Paul, and Linda Brewster Stearns. 1998. “Political Opportunities and Local Grassroots Environmental Movements.” Social Problems 45(1):37–60.
This paper examines the Minamata mercury victims’ grassroots movement. Our analysis demonstrates the value of using a political opportunity framework to understand local grassroot environmental movement (LGEM) outcomes. We explain the variation over time in a LGEM’s ability to achieve successful outcomes across different political environments. Specifically, we show that the success of the Minamata LGEM hinged on its ability to employ nontraditional and institutionally disruptive tactics during a period of expanded political opportunities.