CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Barabanova, Yulia Valeryevna |
|---|---|
| Title | Emerging Climate Justice Discourse: Perspectives of Grassroots Networks in the UK |
| Summary | This dissertation captures the emerging grassroots' discourse on climate justice as having potential to advance climate politics. The research is motivated by a concern about the intensifying climate crisis and the failure of the dominant climate politics fixated on carbon emissions and market-based logic to provide appropriate solutions. The study explores the discourse of two networks, Camp for Climate Action and Rising Tide, which have taken direct action on climate justice in the UK. To provide an empirically- rich and in-depth account of how grassroots networks conceptualize an alternative climate politics against the backdrop of the dominant discourse, this study adopts the theoretical lenses of post-politics and a multi-scalar justice combined with the methodological framework of critical discourse analysis. The overarching argument of this dissertation is that grassroots’ discourse on climate change reveals a constant struggle between reproduction of and resistance to the dominant discourse. Yet despite the tensions and contradictions, it is contended that it offers directions for an alternative climate politics that prioritizes community rather nation-state approach to climate change. Further, it encompasses multiple scales and sides of justice rather than a singular distributional logic, and seeks to re-socialize economic relations rather than rationalize them through the considerations of profit. It is concluded that such conceptualization constitutes a counter- discourse on climate politics that in many ways transcends the dominant discourse and offers distinctive forms of being, living and acting in common. |
| Supervisor | Tamara Steger |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/barabanova_yulia.pdf |
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