From Global Justice to Climate Justice? Justice Ecologism in an Era of Global Warming

Goodman, James

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“…Indeed, at least since its mobilisation for protests at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 (COP-15), the Camp for Climate Action has increasingly adopted the rhetoric of global climate justice (see Goodman, 2009, for a contextualisation of the term 'climate justice'). Also, anti-aviation campaigners such as Plane Stupid activists have increasingly focused on the social impact of airport expansion.…”

Section: Climate Action and Aviationmentioning

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How do radical climate movements negotiate their environmental and their social agendas? A study of debates within the Camp for Climate Action (UK)

Schlembach

2011

Critical Social Policy

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This is a case study of the Camp for Climate Action, which has held several high-profile protest events in the UK since its inception in 2006. It analyses the Camp as a contested space were different emphases on environmental and social priorities have to be negotiated by its activists. The article considers areas of contestation where concerns over climate change meet questions of social justice. These are structured around tangible issues of campaigning, such as opposition to new coal-fired power stations or to the third runway at Heathrow airport, some of which have put the Camp at odds with labour movement and class struggle activists. While some demand a drastic shift away from current levels of consumption, others question the discriminatory effects of self-imposed austerity politics. On a more abstract level, the article considers debates on the need for government solutions to the environmental crisis and their possible impacts on social equality. The article is structured around movement-internal debates and makes use of interviews, extensive fieldwork notes and continuous participant observation over the course of four years

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Section: Climate Action and Aviationmentioning

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How do radical climate movements negotiate their environmental and their social agendas? A study of debates within the Camp for Climate Action (UK)

Schlembach

2011

Critical Social Policy

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“…Dawson (2010: 332) suggested that, 'after years of rejecting meta-narratives', CJ might be emerging as a new 'comprehensive positive vision'. It would become ever more central and all-absorbing: 'global warming', argued Goodman (2009), would come to: subsume [y] all other political agendas. In this respect, we can predict, and perhaps witness, a growing alignment of movements under the singularity of the climate crisis [which] is likely to, over time, emerge as a central fulcrum on which solidarities emerge and converge.…”

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“…First, it is inspired by the 'environmental justice movement' (EJM), which emerged in the US during the 1980s as a repudiation of the mainstream environmental movement's focus on merely 'ecological'concerns, and its 'environmental racism' (Dawson, 2010). Addressing radical unevenness between the 'beneficiaries of ecological degradation and those that bear its costs' (Goodman, 2009), the EJM showed that ecological questions were always also questions of social power, and that therefore the former could never be solved without addressing the inequalities in power that produced them. Second, it draws on the more radical wing of internationally active NGOs that have formed the'civil society' sector of the 'Rio model of environmental governance' (Brand and Wissen, 2011).…”

Section: The Global Movement(s) For Climate Justicementioning

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Beyond the ‘Green Economy’: System change, not climate change?

Bullard¹,

Müller²

2012

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The 'green economy' project claims to address the social, economic and ecological crises afflicting the world today, yet there appears to be too little elite consensus for it to be viable in the near future. Nicola Bullard and Tadzio Müller suggest that this absence of elite consensus renders the counter-hegemonic 'climate justice' project similarly weak, leading to a retreat from the global sphere of the (emerging) global climate justice movement. Yet on the ground there are strong and dynamic climate justice movements whose main challenge is to broaden their struggle beyond their current base and to create their own 'globality'.

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“…The second frame is that of justice, which is common among grassroots environmental activists. Climate justice, a term that was coined in 2002, is situated in the broader frames of environmental justice and global social justice, and is articulated to contiguous notions of ecological citizenship, environmental rights, environmental sustainability, and democracy (Beckman & Page, 2008;Saunders, 2008;Carmin & Bast, 2009;Goodman, 2009;Wolf et al, 2009). The justice frame is both present and future oriented, and its central assumption is that those most vulnerable to the harmful consequences of AGW are those least responsible for causing the problem and least equipped to deal with it.…”

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Talk of the Enemy: Adversarial Framing and Climate Change Discourse

Knight

Greenberg

2011

Social Movement Studies

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This article provides a comparative analysis of adversarial framing oriented to reputation discrediting in the context of social movement/counter-movement relations. Website material associated with two Canadian organizations, the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP) and DeSmogBlog (DSB), involved on opposite sides of the contention over anthropogenic global warming (AGW), is analysed to examine how each side identifies and frames its adversaries and the latter's claims-making practices. The analysis focuses on the extent to which the structure of adversarial framing by each side differs from or is mirrored by the framing of the other side. Both sides discredit their opponents on the basis of five reputational dimensions: practices, moral character, competence and qualifications, social associations, and real versus apparent motivations. The principal point of difference concerns the main focus of discrediting, with the NRSP focusing chiefly on its opponents' claims-making practices and the DSB on moral character. Both discourses, nonetheless, create an integrated discrediting narrative in which all five dimensions are involved, with motivation acting as a cognitive and normative thread tying the other dimensions together.

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From Global Justice to Climate Justice? Justice Ecologism in an Era of Global Warming

Cited by 63 publications

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How do radical climate movements negotiate their environmental and their social agendas? A study of debates within the Camp for Climate Action (UK)

How do radical climate movements negotiate their environmental and their social agendas? A study of debates within the Camp for Climate Action (UK)

Beyond the ‘Green Economy’: System change, not climate change?

Talk of the Enemy: Adversarial Framing and Climate Change Discourse

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