Science or Science Fiction? Professionals' discursive construction of climate change

Lefsrud, Lianne; Meyer, Renate E.

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2012.202

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“…The notion of "framing" has been applied in other field-level studies (Benford & Snow, 2000;Lefsrud & Meyer, 2012; to describe discursive strategies relating to boundaries. In general, "framing" involves assigning meanings and interpreting conditions and events in ways aimed at achieving specific goals (Granqvist & Laurila, 2011;Snow & Benford, 1988); through framing, field-level actors "legitimate or delegitimize the acceptance of a particular program of change" (Suddaby & Viale, 2011, p. 434).…”

Section: Boundary Work and Framingmentioning

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Contestation about Collaboration: Discursive Boundary Work among Professions

Bucher

Chreim

Langley

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Organization Studies

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We examine how professions responded to a potential change in jurisdictional boundaries by analyzing the written submissions of five professional associations in reaction to a government proposal to strengthen interprofessional collaboration, relating these responses to the professions´ field positions. We identify four foci for framing used by the professions, represented by their professional associations, to discursively develop their boundary claims: (1) framing of the issue of interprofessional collaboration (that we call issue framing), (2) framing of justifications for favored solutions (that we call justifying), (3) framing of the profession's own identity (that we call self-casting), and (4) framing of other professions' identities (that we call altercasting). We find that professions employed these foci differently depending on two dimensions of their field positions -status and centrality. Our study contributes to the literature by identifying distinctive ways through which the foci for framing may be mobilized in situations of boundary contestation, and by theorizing how field position in terms of status and centrality influence actors' framing strategies.

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Section: Boundary Work and Framingmentioning

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Contestation about Collaboration: Discursive Boundary Work among Professions

Bucher

Chreim

Langley

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Organization Studies

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“…The cultural studies approach pioneered by Mary Douglas and collaborators posits three distinct climate change -stories‖ (Verweij et al, 2006 Hoffman, 2011;Lefsrud & Meyer, 2012).…”

Section: Climate Change As a Grand Challengementioning

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Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited

Ferraro

Etzion

Gehman

2015

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In this article, we theorize a novel approach to addressing the world’s grand challenges based on the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism and the sociological concept of robust action. Grounded in prior empirical organizational research, we identify three robust strategies that organizations can employ in tackling issues such as climate change and poverty alleviation: participatory architecture, multivocal inscriptions and distributed experimentation. We demonstrate how these strategies operate, the manner in which they are linked, the outcomes they generate, and why they are applicable for resolving grand challenges. We conclude by discussing our contributions to research on robust action and grand challenges, as well as some implications for research on stakeholder theory, institutional theory and theories of valuation

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“…For instance, Lefsrud and Meyer (2012) studied the discursive construction of climate change from the perspective of scientists and engineers working in the petroleum industry. The most emotionally expressive group were those who felt their identities as experts most threatened, and felt that action on climate change would be more detrimental than inaction because of feared effects on the economy.…”

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Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change

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Leviston

Hurlstone

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Global Environmental Change

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Current research shows that emotions can motivate climate engagement and action, but precisely how has received scant attention. We propose that strong emotional responses to climate change result from perceiving one's "objects of care" as threatened by climate change, which motivates caring about climate change itself, and in turn predicts behaviour. In two studies, we find that climate scientists (N=44) experience greater emotional intensity about climate change than do students (N=94) and the general population (N=205), and that patterns of emotional responses explain differences in support for climate change policy.Scientists tied their emotional responses to concern about consequences of climate change to future generations and the planet, as well as personal identities associated with responsibility to act. Our findings suggest that "objects of care" that link people to climate change may be crucial to understanding why some people feel more strongly about the issue than others, and how emotions can prompt action. Keywords:Climate change, emotion, care, identity, field theory, psychological distance Highlights• This paper sheds light on why people feel specific, or any, emotions about climate change and links these emotions to support for climate action• We demonstrate a connection between objects of care, the emotions they evoke, and actions to address climate change

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Science or Science Fiction? Professionals' discursive construction of climate change

Cited by 53 publications

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Contestation about Collaboration: Discursive Boundary Work among Professions

Contestation about Collaboration: Discursive Boundary Work among Professions

Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited

Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change

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