Lee, Maria;
Armeni, Chiara;
(2025)
Participation and Protest Across Civic Space: An Environmental Law Story.
Transnational Environmental Law
(In press).
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Abstract
This article explores a continuum of environmental participation, from formalized participation in decision-making processes, protected by law, at one end, to protest on the streets, criminalized by law, at the other. Participation across this continuum is partially constituted by, but also constrained by, law. We share and extend Brian Wynne’s evocative language of ‘uninvited’ participation to describe the contributions that fall outside institutionalized participation, so that our continuum is composed of ‘invited participation’, ‘uninvited participation’ and ‘forbidden participation’. Focusing especially on those states where liberal democracy is thought to be most secure, this article looks across the interconnections between different categories of environmental participation, highlighting the breadth and intensity of the shrinking of civic space in Europe, and law’s role in that.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Participation and Protest Across Civic Space: An Environmental Law Story |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/transnatio... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Public participation; Environmental assessment; Aarhus Convention; European Convention on Human Rights; Protest |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10212003 |
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