ABSTRACT
Between 1979 and 1990 environmental blockading was established as an enduring response to environmental destruction across Australia, the United States, and Canada. This chapter explores the ongoing influence of the period and practice upon environmental and other movements. It first provides an account of the evolution of tactical forms and strategic approaches associated with environmental blockading since 1990. In doing so it focuses on key protest waves in Australia, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom during the 1990s as well as how the codification and diffusion of tactics, strategies and approaches to normative protester behaviour has taken place via the production of handbooks, manuals, and websites. The chapter then discusses the contemporary use of blockading to defend biodiverse places as well as the diffusion of practices largely developed in such situations to movements operating in other contexts and dealing with other issues. Extinction Rebellion is used as a core case study with analysis establishing connections between the 1979–1990 period and the present.
