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A political‐economic theory of relevance: Explaining climate change inaction
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour ( IF 1.733 ) Pub Date : 2019-08-23 , DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.12224
Ryan Gunderson 1 , Diana Stuart 2 , Matthew Houser 3
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Why have societies failed to effectively respond to climate change? We address the question of climate change inaction by (1) examining how an unambiguously ominous report about climate change (IPCC 2018) was made palatable by news media and (2) explaining why climate change is typically unthematized in everyday life. Drawing on Adorno and Schutz, we develop a political‐economic theory of relevance. The imperative to accumulate capital is not only a social‐structural reality but also shapes why particular facts are regarded as relevant in experience (topical relevance) as well as how relevant material is interpreted (interpretative relevance) and acted toward (motivational relevance). Applying this framework, we (1) argue that media popularizations of the IPCC's dire Global Warming of 1.5°C (2018) are constituted by relevance systems conditioned by a capitalist social context and (2) strengthen Ollinaho's (2016) Schutzian explanation for climate change inaction by examining how productive relations and the culture industry perpetuate climate change irrelevance in everyday life. Schutz's framework helps conceptualize the intricacies of ideology and, when revised with Adorno's sociology, shines new light on an old question: the relations between social conditions and knowledge.

中文翻译:

相关的政治经济理论:解释气候变化无所作为

为什么社会未能有效应对气候变化?我们通过(1)研​​究新闻媒体如何使关于气候变化的明确报道(IPCC 2018)变得可口,并(2)解释为什么气候变化在日常生活中通常没有主题化,从而解决了气候变化无所作为的问题。借助Adorno和Schutz,我们发展了相关的政治经济学理论。积累资本的当务之急不仅是社会结构的现实,而且还决定了为什么特定事实被认为与经验相关(主题相关)以及相关材料如何被解释(解释相关)并朝(动机相关)起作用。应用这个框架,我们(1)认为IPCC可怕的全球变暖1.5°C的媒体普及(2018)由以资本主义社会背景为条件的关联性系统构成;(2)通过研究生产关系和文化产业如何使气候变化与日常生活无关,加强了Ollinaho(2016)Schutzian对气候变化无作为的解释。舒茨的框架有助于概念化意识形态的复杂性,并且在与阿多诺的社会学一起修订时,为一个古老的问题提供了新的亮点:社会条件与知识之间的关系。
更新日期:2019-08-23
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