Essays about: "Extinction Rebellion"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Extinction Rebellion.

1. 1. Ageing Into the Apocalypse : Exploring How Age and Institutionalisation Shapes Environmental Organisations through Apocalyptic Framing and Blame Attribution

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : John Wester; [2023]
   Keywords : Institutionalisation; environmental movement; social movements; framing; blame attribution; apocalypse; age; Extinction Rebellion; Naturskyddsföreningen;

   Abstract : This study investigated how the age of an environmental movement organisation and its degree of institutionalisation impacted the usage of threat-related framing and blame attribution in regards to environmental issues. Environmental discourse has lately developed a rhetoric that embraces urgency and severity, but how different types of environmental movement organisations have approached this, historically and today, has not been widely studied. READ MORE

3. 2. REPOLITICIZING AIRPORT ACTIVISM? Exploring the discursive struggle of environmental movements & news media in the context of depoliticized eco-politics

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik och masskommunikation

   Author : Erika Stacke; [2022-09-01]
   Keywords : Environmental movements; activism; news media; discursive struggle; post-politics; depoliticization; political debate; eco-politics;

   Abstract : In a situation of ecological degradation and rapid climate change, environmental movements aim to create debate and attain political change. Here, news media is an important actor, possessing the power to represent movements and their cause in ways that legitimize or disqualify their voice in public debate. READ MORE

4. 3. 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

5. 4. Green Populism in New Social Movements : A Qualitative Text Analysis on Extinction Rebellion's Discourse

   University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

   Author : Jacob Fransson; [2021]
   Keywords : green populism; populism; green ideology; new social movements; qualitative text analysis; Extinction Rebellion;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to explore the new concept of green populism and to explore if Extinction Rebellion can be seen as a new social movement. The concept of green populism is based on Cas Mudde’s ideational approach to populism and Dobson’s approach to green ideology. READ MORE

6. 5. “Lay down our differences” : An interpretive study of problem representation(s) and inclusion in Extinction Rebellion

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Emelie Isaksen; [2020]
   Keywords : environmental movements; Extinction Rebellion; structural power; inclusion; intersectional feminism; WPR;

   Abstract : Previous research on social movements shows that as a consequence of social stratification, structurally privileged groups in society are more prone to engage in and take on leading positions in collective action than those who are structurally marginalised. This essay takes off in the puzzle of deficient inclusion in social movements that identify as inclusive, and looks at how that problem also appear empirically in the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion (XR). READ MORE