Affiliation:
1. Department of Social Sciences, Universität Hamburg , Grindelberg 5, Hamburg 20144, Germany
Abstract
AbstractFollowing Greta Thunberg’s school strike in Stockholm in August 2018 and the October 2018 ‘declaration of rebellion’ by activists in the UK, 2019 saw several climate protest movements rise to public attention, including Fridays for Future (FFF), Extinction Rebellion (XR), and the US Sunrise Movement. What is striking about them is that they rather bluntly refer to science in their campaigns. In this paper, we present an in-depth and comparative study of how the new climate protest movements relate to scientific evidence. Employing a narrative analysis of different types of data (websites, press releases, and media coverage), we study the movements’ understandings of ‘the science’ as well as of science’s role in policy processes. We find that the movements in their initial phase predominantly rely on science for their legitimation and adopt a scientific worldview with very little ‘green ambivalence’. Notably, FFF and XR hold a deficit model of existing climate communication and enact roles as science communicators.
Funder
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Public Administration,Geography, Planning and Development
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