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Contesting Coal, Contesting Climate: Materializing the Social Drama of Climate Change in Australia and Germany
Environmental Communication ( IF 3.389 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-24 , DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2020.1865428
Tom Morton 1
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ABSTRACT

A key challenge for climate communication is to materialize the climate crisis experientially and create an embedded climate politics which targets the causes of climate change at source. Since 2009, the climate movement has sought to keep coal, the principle contributor to global heating, in the ground, confronting the entrenched power of the coal-industrial complex at the places where it is extracted. This article analyzes data from extended ethnographic research at two such sites, on the Liverpool Plains in Australia and the Lausitz (Lusatia) in Eastern Germany. In both locations, farmers, villagers, citizens’ initiatives, Indigenous groups, and climate activists engaged in a process of “strategic communing” in a shared struggle to protect their homes, fields, and forests from coal mining. I focus on the shared narratives which emerged from this process and analyze them applying Smith and Howe’s concept of climate change as “social drama.” This analysis reveals how small-scale struggles against coal mining, and the scripts or storylines employed by different actors, can make the sites of struggle morally meaningful in the drama of climate change. Such struggles, I argue, are themselves an important theater in which the global risk of climate change is staged. They foster solidarity between different actors and allow the emergence of exemplary narratives, “shared storylines” of resistance to the fossil-fuel economy and agitation for climate action.



中文翻译:

争夺煤炭,争夺气候:在澳大利亚和德国实现气候变化的社会戏剧

摘要

气候交流面临的主要挑战是,从经验上实现气候危机,并建立针对气候变化根源的嵌入式气候政治。自2009年以来,气候运动一直试图将作为全球供热主要贡献者的煤炭置于地下,以对抗煤炭工业联合体在开采地所根深蒂固的力量。本文分析了在澳大利亚利物浦平原和德国东部劳西兹(Lusatia)这两个地点的扩展的人种学研究数据。在这两个地方,农民,村民,公民倡议,土著团体和气候活动家都参与了“战略交流”,共同努力保护自己的房屋,田野和森林免受煤炭开采。我关注于此过程中出现的共同叙述,并运用史密斯和豪的气候变化概念作为“社会戏剧”来分析它们。该分析揭示了与煤炭开采作斗争的小规模斗争,以及不同参与者所采用的剧本或故事情节如何使斗争的场所在气候变化的戏剧中具有道德上的意义。我认为,这些斗争本身就是重要的战场,全球气候变化的风险正在其中发生。它们促进了不同行为者之间的团结,并出现了典范的叙事,抵抗化石燃料经济的“共同故事情节”以及煽动性的气候行动。并且不同演员采用的剧本或故事情节可以使斗争的现场在气候变化的戏剧中具有道德上的意义。我认为,这些斗争本身就是重要的战场,全球气候变化的风险正在其中发生。它们促进了不同行为者之间的团结,并出现了典范的叙事,抵抗化石燃料经济的“共同故事情节”以及煽动性的气候行动。并且不同演员采用的剧本或故事情节可以使斗争的现场在气候变化的戏剧中具有道德上的意义。我认为,这些斗争本身就是重要的战场,全球气候变化的风险正在其中发生。它们促进了不同行为者之间的团结,并出现了典范的叙事,抵抗化石燃料经济的“共同故事情节”以及煽动性的气候行动。

更新日期:2021-01-24
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