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Towards collective sensemaking of the unfolding story of climate justice: A structural narrative analysis unpacking the perspective of civil society
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).
2024 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master of Fine Arts (Two Years)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Civil society actors are routinely silenced in the climate change discourse due to a mediated portrait of climate change mainly shaped by governments and international development organizations (Carvalho, 2019). As the impacts of climate change aggravate, interest in how to communicate the complex topic has grown, emerging into the climate change communication research field. In parallel with researchers exploring how to best communicate climate change to the public and international climate negotiations happening behind closed doors, civil society has taken it to the streets and social media to emphasize the human rights perspective of climate change, framed as climate justice. The story of climate justice mobilizes millions of people, but its meaning, scope, and implications are debated, and it is widely known that the term lacks one shared established definition (Newell et al., 2021). Instead, climate justice is recognized as a concept with a heavily diverse nature that means different things to different people (Jafry, et al., 2018). This study steers the lens toward the story of climate justice and the elements civil society perceives to constitute the narrative. Through structural narrative analysis, this study unpacks who civil society perceives as the subjects of climate injustices, the root causes of those injustices, the actors and actions sustaining injustices, and the perceived solutions needed for climate justice to be materialized.

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2024. , p. 70
Keywords [en]
Climate Change Communication, Climate Justice, Narrative analysis, Actantial model, Thematic analysis
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Media and Communications Climate Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-68836OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-68836DiVA, id: diva2:1870301
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KS K3 Communication for development
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Available from: 2024-06-20 Created: 2024-06-14 Last updated: 2025-03-03Bibliographically approved

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