The ‘efficacy dilemma’ of transnational climate activism: the case of COP21

Moor, Joost de

doi:10.1080/09644016.2017.1410315

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“…Despite ongoing reservations to get involved in another climate summit, the 2015 Paris summit (COP21) was, due to its high profile, another opportunity to generate momentum and attention (Cassegård et al, 2017;de Moor, 2018). This was hard to resist even for the radical and direct-action oriented organizations.…”

Section: A Brief History Of the Climate Movementmentioning

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New kids on the block: taking stock of the recent cycle of climate activism

Moor

Vydt

Uba

et al. 2020

Social Movement Studies

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Since late 2018, a global wave of mobilization under the banners of Fridays For Future (FFF) and Extinction Rebellion (XR) has injected new energy into global climate politics. FFF and XR took the world by storm, but have now been forced into (partial) latency as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. We believe this moment presents an opportunity for reflection. In particular, FFF and XR have been depicted as 'new' forms of climate activism. However, we argue that the extent to which these campaigns represent 'new' forms of climate activism is really a matter for closer investigation. In this Profile, we therefore reflect on the distinctiveness of the 'new climate activism' as compared to previous climate campaigns. Reviewing previous studies and our own research, we find that there are both elements of change and continuity in who participates and how, and that the main change appears to be the use of a more politically 'neutral' framing of climate change that is directed more strongly at state than non-state actors.

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Section: A Brief History Of the Climate Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

New kids on the block: taking stock of the recent cycle of climate activism

Moor

Vydt

Uba

et al. 2020

Social Movement Studies

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191

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“…At the same time, especially those that were more involved—and particularly the Millennials—were critical toward some of its main aspects and outputs: Their criticism is focused on the failure of the countersummits, that a posteriori are perceived much more as an identity testimony than as an effective way to contrast the globalization process and propose an alternative to it. This is a shared assumption also among other social movements, but in the case of environmental activism, it refers specifically to the impact that the international countersummits had in environmental terms (de Moor, 2017).…”

Section: Political Careers and Collective Memorymentioning

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Political Generations and the Italian Environmental Movement(s): Innovative Youth Activism and the Permanence of Collective Actors

Bertuzzi

2019

American Behavioral Scientist

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During recent years, Italian social movements have experienced a period of crisis, in part due to diffuse antipolitical feelings and latent social conflict. However, environmental issues and especially territorial mobilizations remain relevant, due to the appearance of new contentious actors and to the permanence of long-standing organizations and important local grassroots campaigns. Based on 19 semistructured interviews with activists belonging to informal groups and formal associations, this article discusses the role of age and generations within the variegated Italian environmental archipelago, in which organizational and collective aspects prove to currently have a relevant role. Indeed, age does not represent an important fracture, representing a partial anomaly if confronted with the other case studies discussed in this special issue. The only diversities between cohorts are related to the forms of action preferred and (eventually) adopted, while the common perception of job precariousness among young activists is not translated into a single frame and common path of resistance. More than a Millennials’ identity, it is rather appropriate to speak of various and divergent political generations: individuals belonging to different cohorts share some ideologies and visions of the world, especially related to territorial belongings or to specific ways of looking at environmental issues. Also for this reason, a final comparison between contemporary young activists and those of previous generations is proposed to address the generation(s) in movement(s) in a dynamic perspective.

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“…The Paris mobilization had learned from Copenhagen by focusing on expectation management: COP21 was an important moment for climate politics, but it was not the most important, let alone last, moment to save the planet. Rather, it was framed as a stepping-stone for movements that would subsequently force effective climate action by taking matters into their own hands (de Moor 2018, de Moor andWahlström 2019). However, in the most recent global climate campaigns led by Fridays For Future (FFF) and Extinction Rebellion (XR), the 'now or never' message has been recentered, particularly in responding to the alarming 2018 IPCC report on the closing window for staying within the 'safe' limits of 1.5 degrees of global warming (de Moor et al 2020).…”

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Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities

Moor

2021

Environmental Politics

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As climate movements are growing around the world, so too is a postapocalyptic form of environmentalism. While apocalyptic environmentalism warns of future catastrophe in case of inaction, its postapocalyptic sibling assumes that catastrophe is already here or unavoidable. Here I explore the overlooked strategic implications of postapocalyptic narratives in climate change movements. I present data from a qualitative study of climate activism in five European cities: Malmö, Hamburg, Antwerp, Bristol, and Manchester, based on ethnographic observations and 46 qualitative interviews. I argue that postapocalyptic narratives are indeed widely present but are, following the logics of appropriateness, habit and affect, kept out of strategizing; in turn, this enables a continued focus on climate mitigation. Debates about the need for strategies to adapt to present or unavoidable climate disruptions tend to be foreclosed, though exceptions like the co-creation of local adaptation measures are discussed.

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The ‘efficacy dilemma’ of transnational climate activism: the case of COP21

Cited by 41 publications

References 20 publications

New kids on the block: taking stock of the recent cycle of climate activism

New kids on the block: taking stock of the recent cycle of climate activism

Political Generations and the Italian Environmental Movement(s): Innovative Youth Activism and the Permanence of Collective Actors

Postapocalyptic narratives in climate activism: their place and impact in five European cities

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