Explaining Variation in Transnational Climate Change Activism: The Role of Inter-Movement Spillover

Hadden, Jennifer

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“…Many studies describe that the 2009 Copenhagen mobilization had been widely experienced among activists as a massive failure (Bullard and Müller 2012;D. R. Fisher 2010;Hadden 2014Hadden , 2015. The movement had framed COP15 as the last chance to save the planet and invested lots of resources and hope in securing this achievement.…”

Section: Studying the Climate Movement Around Cop21mentioning

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Narrating political opportunities: explaining strategic adaptation in the climate movement

Moor

Wahlström

2019

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This article advances theory on social movements' strategic adaptation to political opportunity structures by incorporating a narrative perspective. Our theory explains how people acquire and use knowledge about political opportunity structures through storytelling about the movement's past, present, and imagined future. The discussion applies the theory in an ethnographic case study of the climate movement's mobilization around the UN Climate Summit in Paris, 2015. This analysis demonstrates how a dominant narrative of defeat about the prior protest campaign in Copenhagen, 2009 shaped the strategizing process. While those who experienced Copenhagen as a success preferred strategic continuity, those who experienced defeat developed a BCopenhagen narrative^to advance strategic adaptation by projecting previously experienced threats and opportunities onto the Paris campaign. Yet by relying on a retrospective narrative, movement actors tended to overlook emerging political opportunities. We demonstrate that narrative analysis is a useful tool for understanding the link between structure and agency in social movements and other actors affected by (political) opportunity structures.Keywords Climate change . Narrative . Political opportunity structure . Social movements . Strategy . Structure and agency How do social movements adapt their strategies to political opportunity structures (POSs)? This is one of the most cited questions in social movement research and goes right to the heart of how movements advance social change. However, it is also one of

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Section: Studying the Climate Movement Around Cop21mentioning

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Narrating political opportunities: explaining strategic adaptation in the climate movement

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Wahlström

2019

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“…This event explicitly used Indonesian examples of religious environmental activism as models for other countries, such as the use of fatwas to protect rainforests (UNFCCC, 2016a). Nana Firman's story is an example of what Hadden (2014) calls "intermovement spillover" as activists bring strategies across geographical and organizational boundaries, finding contextually-appropriate ways to fit into global and local contexts.…”

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“…The broad-based movement has enlisted multiple actors: local governments (Castán Broto & Bulkeley, 2013), national governments (Abbott, 2014;Cao & Ward, 2016), the private sector (Hoffman & Badiane, 2010;Eucker, 2014) and civil society organizations (Newell, 2005;Hadden, 2014) among others. Climate change poses problems to society that are not simply technological; they are also ideological and ethical (Berry, 2016, p.78).…”

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“…As civil society becomes more interconnected and global (Clarke, 2016;Chandler, 2004;Katz & Anheier, 2006), transnational social movements increasingly take on a global scope and diverse makeup (Joachim & Locher, 2008;Hadden, 2014). As the problems caused by globalization and the effects of climate change are increasingly felt, the responses to these problems have become increasingly transnational.…”

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“…As the problems caused by globalization and the effects of climate change are increasingly felt, the responses to these problems have become increasingly transnational. We can now speak of a global justice movement (Della Porta, 2007, p.7) and a global environmental movement (Hoffmann, 2011;Hadden, 2014). Religious groups increasingly play a role in transnational social movements for the environment (see Veldman et al, 2013;Gottlieb, 2009 for examples).…”

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Connecting Global and Local Indonesian Religious Environmental Movements

Smith¹

2018

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ABSTRAKArtikel ini membahas hubungan antara gerakan sosial transnasional-lintas agama yang menangani perubahan iklim dalam skala global dengan ekspresi lokal agama dan ekologi di Indonesia. Artikel ini menghubungkan dua tren dalam literature, yaitu agama dan ekologi: 1) analisis spasial agama dan lingkungan alam dan 2) studi tentang gerakan sosial lingkungan religius. Banyak penelitian tentang pergerakan aktivis agama di pusat, yang menunjukkan bahwa mereka beroperasi di zona terpisah, agak terputus dari masyarakat lokal yang ingin mereka wakili dan direformasi. Artikel ini berpendapat bahwa gerakan lingkungan religius dapat dipahami dengan lebih baik dengan menempatkannya di tengah, sebagai aktor yang tertanam dan dibentuk oleh ruang global dan lokal yang tumpang tindih. Artikel tersebut diawali dengan tinjauan singkat literatur tentang agama dan ekologi yang relevan dengan analisis spasial agama dan gerakan sosial lingkungan. Tinjauan ini berpendapat bahwa studi tentang gerakan lingkungan religius dapat disematkan dalam konteks global dan lokal. Ini memberi contoh bagaimana konteks Indonesia (antara lain) telah membantu membentuk gerakan lingkungan religius global. Selanjutnya, artikel tersebut menyajikan studi kasus di Indonesia yang menunjukkan bagaimana wacana lingkungan diciptakan bersama oleh masyarakat lokal dan aktivis agama. Artikel ini diakhiri dengan saran untuk studi lebih lanjut tentang adaptasi kreatif terhadap perubahan iklim di tingkat lokal dan global.Kata Kunci: Agama; Aksi sosial antaragama; Ekologi; Gerakan lingkungan; Gerakan sosial global; Globalisasi; Indonesia; Perubahan iklim;. ABSTRACTThis article discusses connections between transnational multi-faith social movements addressing climate change on a global scale with local expressions of religion and ecology in Indonesia. It connects two trends in literature on religion and ecology: 1) spatial analysis of religion and the natural environment and 2) studies of religious environmental social movements. Many studies of these movements put religious activists at the center, which suggests that they operate in a separate zone, somewhat disconnected from the local communities they aim to represent and reform. This article argues that religious environmental movements can be better understood by placing them in the middle, as actors embedded in and shaped by overlapping global and local spaces. The article begins with a brief review of literature on religion and ecology relevant to a spatial analysis of religion and environmental social movements. It then argues that studies about religious environmental movements can be enriched by studying how movements are embedded in global and local contexts. It provides examples of how the Indonesian context (among others) has helped to shape global religious environmental movements. Next, the article presents case studies in Indonesia demonstrating how environmental activists share a dynamic relationship with their contexts, and how religious environmental discourses are co-created by local communities...

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Climate Change and Climate Justice Movements

Almeida¹

2022

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

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The ecological threat of planetary warming drives the international movement and campaigns attempting to turn back the rapid pace of climate change. As in other types of threat‐induced collective action, scientists, activists, and ordinary people perceive that environmental systems and human civilization will be made worse off without mass mobilization in the present. Indeed, climate change may be the principal existential threat faced by humanity. The widespread nature of the threat, which encompasses inhabitants of the entire planet, creates the potential for assembling broad coalitions seeking a more sustainable future. The most successful organizing drives against the ongoing threat of global warming have appropriated resource infrastructures from preexisting environmental NGOs and transnational global economic justice networks along with everyday organizations, such as public schools (e.g., in the youth‐based Fridays for Future and Sunrise movements), and social media.

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Explaining Variation in Transnational Climate Change Activism: The Role of Inter-Movement Spillover

Cited by 87 publications

References 26 publications

Narrating political opportunities: explaining strategic adaptation in the climate movement

Narrating political opportunities: explaining strategic adaptation in the climate movement

Connecting Global and Local Indonesian Religious Environmental Movements

Climate Change and Climate Justice Movements

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