Framing different energy futures? Comparing Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion in Germany

Buzogány, Áron; Scherhaufer, Patrick

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2022.102904

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“…Whilst there are undoubtedly cases where specific individuals can be discerned as having a singular influence on policy change, this is not always the case. It is sometimes not possible to attribute agency to one single actor or organisation, with policy innovation resulting from distributed agency that is realised through the complementary actions of a collection of actors (Capano & Galanti, 2018;Petridou, 2014). On this basis, Capano and Galanti (2021) have advanced a characterisation of policy entrepreneurship as a 'pattern of agency' to promote innovation which is not necessarily carried out by a single individual or organisation.…”

Section: Policy Entrepreneurship and Civil Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A prominent feature of the CEDs is the ‘emergency’ frame for the climate problem, which identifies the issue as exceptional and emphasises the need for action that goes beyond ‘business as usual’ (Patterson et al, 2021). The term ‘climate emergency’ did not emerge directly from the IPCC's work, but their reports, and climate science in general, have formed the epistemic basis for calls to catalyse an emergency response (Buzogány & Scherhaufer, 2022; Howarth et al, 2021). This emergency frame has been cultivated and popularised by civil society actors, such as Extinction Rebellion among others (Davidson et al, 2020; Howarth et al, 2021; Rode, 2019; Salamon, 2019).…”

Section: Uk Local Government Climate Emergency Declarationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations

Harvey‐Scholes

Mitchell

Britton

et al. 2022

Review of Policy Research

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Policy entrepreneurship theory seeks to explain how actors, institutions, actions and interactions influence policy makers and policy outcomes; however, the role of citizens in this process remains largely unarticulated. Adopting a conception of policy entrepreneurship as a (distributed) pattern of agency rather than the actions of an individual, we analyse the development of local government climate emergency declarations (CEDs) (many of which visibly involved citizen advocacy). This analysis expands on the role of citizens in policy change and provides evidence of how citizen entrepreneurs interact collaboratively with more traditional forms of policy elites, in this case local elected representatives. Since 2018 hundreds of local governments in the United Kingdom (UK) have issued CEDs in a surge of expressions of local climate ambition. Whilst CEDs have attracted attention from scholars, the underlying dynamics and politics which drove the adoption of these policies, including the role played by citizens, remain unexplored in the literature. Interviews with councillors, council officers, and citizens reveal that citizens carry out a range of activities related to policy entrepreneurship, including problem framing, identifying solutions, networking and building coalitions, and

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Section: Policy Entrepreneurship and Civil Societymentioning

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Section: Uk Local Government Climate Emergency Declarationsmentioning

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Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations

Harvey‐Scholes

Mitchell

Britton

et al. 2022

Review of Policy Research

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“…This may appear contradictory as post-protest respondents are in principle more supportive of pro-environmental behavior and policy but at the same time less willing to incur additional associated costs. This pattern is nevertheless consistent with XR's support of radical economic change (Stuart 2022), and its focus on the responsibility of national governments for environmental conservation and climate change mitigation (Buzogány and Scherhaufer 2022). The focus and framing of the XR protest can plausibly crowd out individual's willingness to incur extra costs associated with pro-environmental consumption, shifting the responsibility for conservation to governments and firms.…”

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confidence: 58%

Do protests influence environmental attitudes? Evidence from Extinction Rebellion

Kountouris

Williams²

2023

Environ. Res. Commun.

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Protests are frequently used to raise public awareness of environmental challenges and increase support for pro-environmental behavior and policy. In this paper we examine the influence of protests on environmental attitudes, focusing on Extinction Rebellion's April 2019 campaign of civil disobedience in the UK. Using individual-level survey data collected around the time of the protest, we exploit its exogeneity to the timing of survey response, to compare attitudes towards sustainable lifestyles, perceptions of own environmental impact, support for pro-environmental policy and behavior, and views about the severity and imminence of environmental crises, before and after the protest. There is evidence that the protest is related to lower probability of opposing pro-environmental behavior and policy, and lower willingness to pay a premium for environmentally friendly consumption. We do not find evidence that the protest alienated the public from sustainable lifestyles, influenced perceptions of personal environmental impact, or views about the imminence and severity of environmental crises. Results suggest the need for systematic study of the impact of environmental protests on the general public's environmental attitudes and behaviors.

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“…In general, studies on ENGO collective action framing suggests that ENGOs diagnose capitalist economies to blame, promote civil resistance actions as prognostic action and use the motivational frame of individual responsibility to take action 34,42,43 . As highlighted above, ENGOs in our dataset blame the fossil fuel industry, and use motivation frames extolling the bene ts of helping and empowering others, changing systems and structures, and particularly in the case of intergenerational justice, a moral obligation to take action.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Ahlers found that both XR and FFFs motivational framing utilised a sense of urgency as a means to mobilise action 42 . Smiles and Edward found that Extinction Rebellion activists used a motivational frame arguing that action was required in order to protect human lives and wellbeing 34,43 . Motivational frames can also convey group agency by highlighting existing ENGOs resources which may maximise the likelihood of success 32 .…”

Section: Collective Action Framesmentioning

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How Australian environmental non-governmental organisations frame and enact climate justice

Gulliver

Vachette

Boddington

2023

Preprint

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This paper seeks to examine how Australian environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) communicate about and mobilise their supporters for climate justice. ENGOs play an important role in raising awareness and changing values, attitudes and behaviours related to climate justice. However, while a number of Australian ENGOs have begun incorporating language around climate justice in their communications, it remains unclear how they are conceptualised and enacted. Using data collected from 619 ENGO websites and 149 grant applications, we examine how ENGOs describe climate justice and the collective action frames they use to mobilise action. We found that while few ENGOs provided detailed explanations of climate justice on their websites, they primarily frame climate injustice as a procedural and distributive problem. The fossil fuel sector was most commonly identified as the cause of climate injustice, and First Nations communities most commonly affected. ENGOS consistently linked specific climate justice dimensions to relevant issues and solutions, suggesting a sophisticated understanding of how climate justice can be enacted. However, they primarily proposed incremental tactics involving education, solidarity and allyship behaviours, rather than radical actions through which to drive a transformative agenda of social, political or economic change. We conclude the paper with a discussion of applied implications for ENGOs and suggestions for future research.

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Framing different energy futures? Comparing Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion in Germany

Cited by 45 publications

References 42 publications

Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations

Citizen policy entrepreneurship in UK local government climate emergency declarations

Do protests influence environmental attitudes? Evidence from Extinction Rebellion

How Australian environmental non-governmental organisations frame and enact climate justice

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