Metaphors in Guardian Online and Mail Online Opinion-page Content on Climate Change: War, Religion, and Politics

Atanasova, Dimitrinka; Koteyko, Nelya

doi:10.1080/17524032.2015.1024705

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“…These include the rejection of climate change for being a hoax and attacks on proponents of mainstream climate‐change policies for being proponents of a new religion. Metaphors from the religious domain are in fact one of the most common tools in such communication, one already well‐known from and closely resembling contemporary conservative articulations of climate‐change skepticism (Atanasova & Koteyko, ; Jaspal et al, ; Nerlich, ). Further elements characterizing far‐right climate‐change communication are attacks on mainstream climate‐change science for being driven by vested interests and attacks on wind turbines as a response to climate change (a “blight on the landscape”).…”

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Climate change and the far right

Forchtner

2019

WIREs Climate Change

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In recent years two crises have populated the imagination of publics: environmental crises, ranging from, for example, water and air pollution to climate change, and the crisis of liberal democracy, illustrated by the rise of far‐right actors across Europe, the United States and beyond. While these environmental and political crises have been analyzed on their own, little research has been done on their nexus. Against this background, this focus article reviews existing academic literature on far‐right climate‐change communication by European party and nonparty actors, that is, climate‐change communication from a distinctively ethno‐nationalist and authoritarian perspective. The far right is not a homogenous entity but best viewed as a continuum, ranging from radical‐right, anti‐liberal democracy actors to extreme‐right, anti‐democracy ones. This contribution to WIREs Climate Change argues that many, though not all, far‐right party and nonparty actors are skeptical towards (anthropogenic) climate change and/or responses to it, at least in comparison to the European mainstream. The article does so by reviewing existing research before formulating areas for further research. This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Climate Science and Social Movements

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Climate change and the far right

Forchtner

2019

WIREs Climate Change

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“…Social movement scholars show how groups may call on a broad range of symbols, frames, music and repertoires of protest to strengthen and communicate their narrative (McGurty 2009). The cultural repertoire of environmental NGOs is well known, including traditional and imaginative protest, readily identified symbols of melting ice caps and stranded polar bears, and starker images of natural devastation (see Atanasova and Koteyko 2015). Our comparative website data revealed secular groups' greater emphasis on apocalyptic symbols (e.g.…”

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Faith-based climate action in Christian congregations: mobilisation and spiritual resources

Bomberg

Hague

2018

Local Environment

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This article seeks to explain how and why church congregations mobilise on environmental issues and what -if anything -is distinctive about that mobilisation. Building on and adapting Resource Mobilisation Theory (RMT), we develop the idea of "spiritual resources" to help explain how a collection of spiritual identities, values, symbols and narratives can facilitate distinctive collective action on environmental issues. Our analysis draws on data derived from an in-depth case study of climate active groups in Scotland. It includes content analysis of websites, news stories as well as ethnographic observation of selected church and secular groups engaged in climate activity. We find church groups do enjoy a distinct set of resources -comprising tradition, rituals and symbols shaped by theology and doctrine -which are not wholly captured by other explanations of climate mobilisation. While these spiritual resources do not directly translate into specific environmental or climate action they can, especially when combined with other resources, lead to environmental activities distinctly motivated, and distinctly practised at the individual and community level. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…All of those war metaphors to speak about climate crisis are similar in terms of sending the message that climate crisis is an enemy to fight. Atanasova,D and Koteyko,N (2015) find that The Guardian Online employed war metaphors to advance pro-climate change arguments. War metaphors were used to (1) communicate the urgency to act on climate change and (2) conceptualize climate change politics.…”

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The Image of Climate Crisis in Media: A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis

Adam

Wahyuni

2020

JOLL

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The climate crisis has now become the world problem and a big environmental issue and has drawn the attention of governments and media. The impact of the crisis can be reflected on how media describe the crisis using metaphors. The way media use the language metaphorically to describe the climate crisis is the focus of this study. Using conceptual metaphor analysis, the researchers aim to identify the source domains of climate crisis metaphor which deliver the sense of urgency message related to climate crisis. The source of data is news articles from The Guardian online news website which discuss the climate crisis. The result shows that various source domains are used to describe the climate crisis in metaphor: Climate Crisis is described as a War, as an Object in Motion, Directionality, a Vehicle, a Destination, a Political Ideology, a Wrestler, a Chemical Substance, and as a Natural Disaster. Although climate crisis is, one of them, described metaphorically as a destination where sooner or later without a drastic action, eventually the world will arrive there, but it implies an unwanted destination that should be avoided or else, turning back or stop towards the destination, and with the highest finding where climate crisis is described as a war to fight and to combat, it shows that climate crisis is a real threat to our world which everyone should take action to fight. This study shows that although the unintended entailments occurred, the source domain of war and destination deliver the sense of urgency of the climate crisis.

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Metaphors in Guardian Online and Mail Online Opinion-page Content on Climate Change: War, Religion, and Politics

Cited by 49 publications

References 41 publications

Climate change and the far right

Climate change and the far right

Faith-based climate action in Christian congregations: mobilisation and spiritual resources

The Image of Climate Crisis in Media: A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis

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