Climate Change or Social Change? Environmental and Leftist Praxis and Participatory Action Research

Reitan, Ruth; Gibson, Shannon

doi:10.1080/14747731.2012.680735

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“…19. Pleyers 2010Reitan and Gibson 2012. Trade Organization in Seattle and summit meetings in years thereafter, but the justice framing then was primarily a critique of social injustices on a global scale and the democratic deªcit of supranational bodies. 20 While new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s often promoted a form of "life politics" disconnected from traditional political institutions, the activists of the GJM have combined an emphasis on individuals' own actions toward creating a more just world with concrete proposals to reform and democratize political institutions on global and national levels.…”

Section: Collective Action Framing and Transnational Protest Coalitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Framing “The Climate Issue”: Patterns of Participation and Prognostic Frames among Climate Summit Protesters

Wahlström¹,

Wennerhag

Rootes

2013

Global Environmental Politics

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Protests at and around climate summits attract media attention, but it has been assumed, rather than demonstrated, that such protests attract similar kinds of actors who share a common "climate justice" agenda. To test such assumptions, we analyze the patterns of participation in demonstrations around the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, centered around the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-15). Attended by 190 national delegations, with over 30,000 registered participants, 1 formal negotiations among political leaders were surrounded by meetings and seminars involving politicians, scientists, and representatives of a wide range of NGOs. The summit also prompted extraordinary mobilizations of demonstrators, both in Copenhagen and elsewhere. Although, as many of the demonstrators expected, the summit ended without agreement on an effective regime to address global climate change, it provided an important opportunity for networking and mobilization with potentially enduring consequences for the development of a transnational climate movement.The events surrounding COP-15 provided an opportunity to explore the demographic characteristics and political goals of demonstrators mobilized around the most compelling transnational environmental issue of our timeclimate change. By surveying different demonstrations related to a single transnational summit, we examine collective action addressing climate change from the perspective of rank-and-ªle participants, and so provide an important complement to the images conveyed by the slogans and rhetoric of the social movement organizations (SMOs) engaged with climate change.We analyze data on participants in the three largest European climate 1. Fisher 2010, 12.

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Section: Collective Action Framing and Transnational Protest Coalitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Framing “The Climate Issue”: Patterns of Participation and Prognostic Frames among Climate Summit Protesters

Wahlström¹,

Wennerhag

Rootes

2013

Global Environmental Politics

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“…Some political ecologists also raise concerns about the ways global regimes have institutionalized practices that link science and policy-makers as the main protagonists in climate change narratives (Doyle, 2011;Reitan and Gibson, 2012;Wainwright and Mann, 2013). As a result, dominant narratives of ecological modernization tend to focus global climate change discussions on who pays the costs of policy actions, whether we should have decentralized or centralized systems, and whether the costs of action outweigh the benefits (Bäckstrand and Lövbrand, 2007).…”

Section: A Critical Political Ecology Of Climate Change Onsensusmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…For example, contemporary political ecologists argue that global climate change is intimately tied to global social change (Reitan and Gibson, 2012). Some political ecologists also raise concerns about the ways global regimes have institutionalized practices that link science and policy-makers as the main protagonists in climate change narratives (Doyle, 2011;Reitan and Gibson, 2012;Wainwright and Mann, 2013).…”

Section: A Critical Political Ecology Of Climate Change Onsensusmentioning

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A critical political ecology of consensus: On “Teaching Both Sides” of climate change controversies

Colston

Vadjunec

2015

Geoforum

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“…There links were also made with the more conventionally leftist Climate Justice Now!, whose slogan was 'system change not climate change' (Reitan and Gibson 2012). In light of those connections, CCA's dissolution in 2011, and the subsuming of its remnants into the Occupy movement and a campaign for 'fuel justice' is not so surprising.…”

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Climate change, national politics and grassroots action: an introduction

Rootes

Zito

Barry³

2012

Environmental Politics

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There is considerable cross-national variation in the patterns of adoption and implementation of policies designed to mitigate climate change. The sources of this variation are considered. International relations, economic structures, national cultures and domestic political competition are factors, often in interaction one with another. In situations of multilevel governance, sub-national actors may be significant. Grassroots activism from without the formal political process has sometimes been critical in sharpening the focus of formal political actors, and increasing their willingness to act. Climate change is a global issue, but the political action necessary to address it is inevitably local and national as well as international.

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Climate Change or Social Change? Environmental and Leftist Praxis and Participatory Action Research

Cited by 45 publications

References 20 publications

Framing “The Climate Issue”: Patterns of Participation and Prognostic Frames among Climate Summit Protesters

Framing “The Climate Issue”: Patterns of Participation and Prognostic Frames among Climate Summit Protesters

A critical political ecology of consensus: On “Teaching Both Sides” of climate change controversies

Climate change, national politics and grassroots action: an introduction

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