Oleg Andros graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 2007 with a master’s degree in political science, also he’s a lecturer in philosophical and socio-political disciplines. In 2011, he received his PhD in Political Science, specializing in political institutions and processes.
Oleg published a monograph “Environmentalist Movements in the Modern Political Process” in 2012.
The monograph is devoted to the analysis of the ideological basis and processes of institutionalization of environmentalist (environmental protection) movements in the XX-XXI centuries. Environmentalism is seen as a way to resolve the crisis of the interaction between society and the natural environment, which is evolving from from a worldview to a political ideology and underlies the environmental type of «new social movements». Particular attention is paid to social and deep ecology as projects of transformation of society.
The process of institutionalization of environmentalist movements in the United States and Western European countries, as well as the problematic points of this process in Ukraine, is described. Author describes some features of the environmentalist movement: sub-sociality and transnationality, attitude to «classical» political ideologies and the tactics of the «network» movement.
The book is intended for scholars, teachers, students and postgraduates, all those interested in theoretical and practical aspects of the and practical aspects of environmental protection activities.
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