Essays about: "Climate Justice Movement"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words Climate Justice Movement.

1. 1. Climate Justice Movement as Norm Entrepreneur in Global Politics : Creating an Alternative Future in Lützerath to Protest Coal Mining

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Sara-Lorena Mehl; [2022]
   Keywords : Social Movements; Global Norms; Norm Entrepreneurs; Everyday Utopias; Prefiguration;

   Abstract : This thesis argues that contemporary climate justice actions can present a case for how social movements and activists engage as norm entrepreneurs with global politics. Following a case-based approach (McKee, 2003) and combining perspectives of political science with anthropology, theoretical concepts of everyday utopias (Cooper, 2014) and prefiguration (Maeckelbergh, 2011b; 2014) are applied to the case of a village occupation in Germany against a lignite coal mine expansion. READ MORE

3. 2. Ceci (n’)est (pas) une pipe - The framing and reframing of the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Ellis Haarsma; [2022]
   Keywords : social movements; resistance; energy infrastructure; indigeneity; United States; environmental justice; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : With climate change as our current greatest threat, it is necessary to reduce carbon emissions by decreasing fossil fuels. Indigenous movements have played a crucial role in combating climate change, especially with their resistance to pipelines. READ MORE

4. 3. White inside: a critical examination of how structural whiteness in the Dutch climate movement obstructs climate justice

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Agnes Schim van der Loeff; [2022]
   Keywords : whiteness; climate justice; climate movement; solidarity; the Netherlands; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Despite attention for lack of racial diversity in climate movements in the Global North, there is little examination of other manifestations of whiteness. This thesis examines how structural whiteness – as a norm and as a power structure – shapes the Dutch climate movement’s relation to climate justice and how these impacts can be countered. READ MORE

5. 4. Navigating the politics of transformative change towards sustainability: A case study of Extinction Rebellion’s climate crisis framing

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

   Author : Hannes Eggert; [2021]
   Keywords : Extinction Rebellion; social movements; framing; climate change; de- politicization; transformation;

   Abstract : Research on transformations has recognized that trajectories towards sustainability are negotiated and contested through framings and narratives. There is, however, still a greater need to explore the role of social movements and their ability to characterize a problem, propose solutions and motivate the public to become engaged. READ MORE

6. 5. ACCOMMODATION, CONTENTION, AND TRANSFORMATION – MAPPING THE FIELD OF GREEN TRANSITION POLITICS IN DENMARK FROM 2007 to 2020

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Mads Schou Jensen; [2021]
   Keywords : social movement studies; climate politics; field theory; green transition; strategic decision-making; climatization; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Climate change has become an all-encompassing problem as CO2 accumulating in the atmosphere sets the pace of temperature increases in our rapidly warming world. In attempting to make society ‘green,’ environmental movements have pursued different strategies through different political constellations. READ MORE