Post-politics contested: Why multiple voices on climate change do not equal politicisation

Kenis, Anneleen

doi:10.1177/0263774x18807209

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“…Multiple references to the need of vulnerable people, human rights and just transition were found. Considering that the framing of climate change in justice terms may help to attract people to the climate movement (Kenis, 2019), it could be important to establish a better connection between the dimensions of problems identified, solutions presented and motives for demonstrating. Importantly, considering that despite its global dimensions, climate change is experienced locally (Nash et al, 2019), manifestos could have provided a better interconnection of global and local dimensions of climate justice.…”

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“Save the climate! Stop the oil”: Actual protest behavior and core framing tasks in the Portuguese climate movement

Fernandes‐Jesus

Lima

Cameselle

2020

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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In this article, we focus on two demonstrations against climate change that took place in Portugal on the 12th of November 2016 and the 29th of April 2017. Two separate studies were conducted on the same protests. In Study 1, we conducted a quantitative study (N = 259), to examine the role of socio-demographics and socio-psychological predictors in predicting the actual protest. Participants were demonstrators (N = 158), as well as non-demonstrators (N = 101). Results indicated that moral motivation and identification as an environmentalist were the key variables in explaining actual protest. In Study 2, we conducted a framing analysis of the written manifestos (N = 2), to identify the core framing tasks which were used to inspire and legitimize the protests. The framing analysis suggests that the problems and paths for action were described by appealing to the interlinkage between the global and local dimensions of climate change, and that arguments of severity and urgency of the problem were the most salient. The implications of this research are discussed in relation to possible pathways for a more comprehensive understanding of the reasons why people engage in collective action in climate change related issues, and how these motives may relate to how social movements mobilize people for action.

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“Save the climate! Stop the oil”: Actual protest behavior and core framing tasks in the Portuguese climate movement

Fernandes‐Jesus

Lima

Cameselle

2020

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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“…The politicising power of prefiguration, then, lies in embodying the dissent against the capitalist organisation of social space and technocratic forms of government, in materialising an equitable, ecological and solidary alternative, and in diffusing these alternative practices into the broader cultural and institutional landscape (Monticelli, 2018;Schlosberg & Craven, 2019). From this perspective, also highlighted by Deflorian in this special issue, what collective everyday activism is bringing to the fore is the contingent character of the established societal order and the fact that the latter is, and always will be, constructed and contestable (Kenis, 2019). In this sense, the reading of collective everyday activism as prefigurative action clearly reflects a scholarly commitment towards emancipatory and progressive values, and it articulates support for social movement activists and their struggle for social change.…”

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Politicisation beyond post-politics: new social activism and the reconfiguration of political discourse

Blühdorn

Deflorian

2021

Social Movement Studies

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In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008/9 social movements reminiscent of eco-emancipatory movements of the 1980s powerfully repoliticised the post-political order of neoliberalism. Additionally, and more recently, right-wing populist movements, Fridays for Future or political mobilisations related to the COVID-19 pandemic have substantially refashioned both the understanding of post-politics and the patterns of its repoliticisation. This article introduces a special issue on Movements and Activism beyond Post-politics. In light of these recent shifts we revisit the notion of post-politics, identify key characteristics of contemporary forms of repoliticisation, zoom in on academic debates about prefigurative and transformative politics and-following a preview of the contributions collated in the special issue-explore what the ongoing reconfiguration of public discourse may imply for further research into social movement activism beyond post-politics.

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“…Insofar as the post-political is understood as a critique that exposes discourses that hide or suppress political conflicts (Kenis, 2019), there is then evidence that it is relevant to the everyday strategizing of alternatives-oriented groups, and so is an understanding of de-politicization as the disappearance of contentious action (Mayer, 2013). However, we do not see this as providing sufficient grounds in itself for a validation of the most critical post-ecologist readings of the state of Western environmentalism, which attributes little agency to activists, or depicts environmentalism as simulation (Blühdorn, 2017).…”

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“…The second dimensiontheories of social changecan be assessed in relation to whether activists embrace or reject agonism (Kenis, 2019). In other words, do they perceive that differences between groups over fundamental values are ever-present and that politics requires challenging opponents to reveal hegemonic forms of power (Mouffe, 2013, p. 14), or do they attempt to present environmental issues as 'above politics', solvable through deliberative consensus, and therefore post-political (Swyngedouw, 2009)?…”

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What hampers ‘political’ action in environmental alternative action organizations? Exploring the scope for strategic agency under post-political conditions

Moor

Catney

Doherty

2019

Social Movement Studies

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The proliferation of environmental alternative action organization (EAAOs) is a defining feature of present-day environmentalism. The literature on sustainable materialism has celebrated this as an appropriate, effective, and above all, political strategy. By contrast, drawing on post-political and post-ecologist critiques, some have argued that this shift signifies the de-politicisation of environmentalism because it leaves the status quo unchallenged. In this article, we argue that these opposing views can be reconciled first by considering that 'the political' has at least three different dimensions, and second by taking account of how activists reflexively navigate the different challenges posed by each of these dimensions in their strategizing. Based on an ethnographic case study of two organizations in Manchester (UK), we show that while EAAOs developing environmental alternatives may indeed be motivated by radical ideasas suggested in literature on sustainable materialismthe contradictory demands of diffusion and agonism limit their expression through contentious action. We argue that the post-political context in which these groups operate thus has some depoliticizing impact, yet that activists consciously navigate these challenges to maximize their political impact.

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Post-politics contested: Why multiple voices on climate change do not equal politicisation

Cited by 43 publications

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“Save the climate! Stop the oil”: Actual protest behavior and core framing tasks in the Portuguese climate movement

“Save the climate! Stop the oil”: Actual protest behavior and core framing tasks in the Portuguese climate movement

Politicisation beyond post-politics: new social activism and the reconfiguration of political discourse

What hampers ‘political’ action in environmental alternative action organizations? Exploring the scope for strategic agency under post-political conditions

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