ABSTRACT

Climate and labor movements clash over the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground versus protecting industrial jobs. In examining movement-countermovement dynamics in the coal transition in Germany, I analyze how labor and climate movements engage in discursive struggles about the meaning of justice in the just transition. In combining Gramscian theory with a narrative approach, my focus is on how labor and climate movements construct narratives around justice claims in the struggle over the hegemony of coal. In the case examined, claims about distributional, restorative, procedural and recognition justice are pitted against each other in jobs versus climate narratives. The results show that the inability to resolve the justice dilemma ultimately weakened counterhegemonic challenges and delayed the coal transition. This points to the need for transformative just transitions that bridge jobs versus climate divides and for a closer look at conflicts, contradictions and tensions in just transitions.

摘要

气候和劳工运动在需要将化石燃料保留在地下与保护工业工作之间发生冲突。在考察德国煤炭转型中的运动-反运动动态时，我分析了劳工和气候运动如何参与关于正义转型中正义意义的话语斗争。将葛兰西理论与叙事方法相结合，我的重点是劳工和气候运动如何围绕煤炭霸权斗争中的正义主张构建叙事。在所审查的案例中，关于分配正义、恢复正义、程序正义和承认正义的主张在工作与气候叙事中相互对抗。结果表明，无法解决正义困境最终削弱了反霸权挑战，延迟了煤炭转型。