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• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_001 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_001)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_001
  Titel: Introduction
  Autor: Christoph Richter, Noah Marschner, Janine Patz und Axel Salheiser

  Beschreibung: This volume covers international and multidisciplinary perspectives on the consequences of the unequal production and distribution of fossil wealth, the associated conflicts over the distribution of resources, power and responsibilities, and the mechanisms of their justification. The introduction presents some key theoretical terms and concepts that run through the contributions and can help to reflect more closely on the complex relationships between the different perspectives and spatial variances dealt with in this volume. While the first part of the introduction and the book is mainly dedicated to the structures and mechanisms of global inequality and the realities of the climate crisis in some countries of the Global South, the second part focuses on concepts of climate justice and the last part on the cultural and political practices that have developed on the basis of the global inequality structures outlined above and their historical precedents. The anthology shows that the climate crisis affects all societies, but not all equally. Many countries of the Global South are still suffering the most from the consequences of climate change. As the climate crisis escalates, the historically evolved and persistent structures of global inequality are moving to the centre of debates and fear of a loss of status and prosperity is spreading, especially in the affluent, industrialised societies of the Global North. This is accompanied by a strengthening of the radical right which is putting democratic societies and global climate protection to the test.

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  Christoph Richter, Noah Marschner, Janine Patz und Axel Salheiser, Introduction , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_001, Seitenposition: 10
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• 1. Part One: Structures and Mechanisms of Global Inequality and Climate (In‑)Justice
• 2. Part Two: Climate and Environmental Justice
• 3. Part Three: Cultural and Political Responses to the Climate Crisis and Climate Inequality
• 4. On the Contributions to this Volume
• References
• Confronting Denial in Mainstream Climate Change Policy Discourse | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_002 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_002)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_002
  Titel: Confronting Denial in Mainstream Climate Change Policy Discourse
  Autor: Tracey Skillington

  Beschreibung: Coming increasingly into critical focus today are the limitations of standard distributional, procedural, retributive and recognitional components of an international order of climate justice that do not take the wider geopolitical aspects of global climate change sufficiently into consideration. For instance, the enduring influence of imperial histories of natural resource plunder (Carbon Brief, 2021) and related structures of economic, social and political inequality on the changing dynamics of a warming world are not taken into account (Moore, 2017). Similarly, the failure of this justice system to connect institutionally embedded patterns of discrimination and valueinequality (NcNay, 2008) with current experiences of climate change disadvantage (Brugnach et al., 2014). This chapter explores the type of interpretive strategies used in international climate change policy discourse to deny the urgency of these issues and initiate corrective action. It will then consider how a new relational model of climate justice might be introduced to address such epistemic injustice and bring about greater equity in the distribution of climate related burdens and responsibilities.

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  Tracey Skillington, Confronting Denial in Mainstream Climate Change Policy Discourse , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_002, Seitenposition: 44
  aus dem Gesamtwerk: Christoph Richter (Hg.), Axel Salheiser (Hg.), Noah Marschner (Hg.), Janine Patz (Hg.), Contested Climate Justice – Challenged Democracy (2024), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593458205

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• 1. The Justice Dimensions of Climate Change
• 2. Denial as a Strategy of Containment
• 3. A Non‐Recognition of Indigenous Communities’ Knowledge of Nature
• 4. Actualising the Principles and Practices of a Relational Model of Climate Justice
• 5. Conclusion
• References
• Still Heating: Unfolding a Typology of Climate Obstruction | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_003 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_003)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_003
  Titel: Still Heating: Unfolding a Typology of Climate Obstruction
  Autor: Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman und Kirstie M. Jylhä

  Beschreibung: Earth is on a catastrophic trajectory towards severe ecological destruction, and yet, there is little sign of halting the rise of global greenhouse gas emissions or stopping the extraction of fossil fuels. Against this background, in this article we re-engage with a recently proposed typology supposed to cover three modes through which effective climate action has been obstructed. These are, first, primary obstruction, that is, the spread of disinformation and/or denying the very existence of anthropogenic climate change. Second,secondary obstruction concerns more or less deliberate obstruction via opposition to climate action and policies via, for example, reference to “the threat of deindustrialisation”. Finally, tertiary obstruction denotes modes of living which, while not necessarily obstructing effective climate change intentionally, concerns “living in denial”. Drawing on recent research and examples, we revisit this typology.

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  Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman und Kirstie M. Jylhä, Still Heating: Unfolding a Typology of Climate Obstruction , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_003, Seitenposition: 60
  aus dem Gesamtwerk: Christoph Richter (Hg.), Axel Salheiser (Hg.), Noah Marschner (Hg.), Janine Patz (Hg.), Contested Climate Justice – Challenged Democracy (2024), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593458205

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• 1. Primary Obstruction: “Nothing to See Here”
• 2. Secondary Obstruction: “Let’s Look the Other Way”
• 3. Tertiary Obstruction: “Living in La La Land”
• 4. Conclusion: Adding Oil to the Fire
• References
• Extractivism and Climate Justice in a Context of Political Contestation in Zimbabwe | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_004 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_004)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_004
  Titel: Extractivism and Climate Justice in a Context of Political Contestation in Zimbabwe
  Autor: Sandra Bhatasara und Admire M. Nyamwanza

  Beschreibung: This chapter explores the nexus between extractivism and climate justice in Zimbabwe. The country has been going through a protracted political crisis, particularly so after the post-November 2017 “military assisted transition”. Available data shows that the extractive sector plays a strong economic role in different countries,many of which face challenges such as resource dependency and weak governance. Selected key sectors—mining and energy—are at the core of extractivism in Zimbabwe, leaving the country stuck in the fossil energy age. This comes at a time when the world is calling for green transitions to cleaner and sustainable renewable energy and the country has made commitments to a low carbon development strategy.The new lithium frontier is expanding and mutating and this can facilitate clean energy and mobility transition while also creating green job opportunities. However, as we will illustrate in the following chapter, green jobs and green energy are, so far, a fantasy.This chapter utilizes various case studies to explicate what can be conceived as violent extractivism and extractivist banditry in both old and new mineral frontiers, showing how a political rhetoric on green transition is playing out and how climate justice remains an illusion for local communities.

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  Sandra Bhatasara und Admire M. Nyamwanza, Extractivism and Climate Justice in a Context of Political Contestation in Zimbabwe , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_004, Seitenposition: 74
  aus dem Gesamtwerk: Christoph Richter (Hg.), Axel Salheiser (Hg.), Noah Marschner (Hg.), Janine Patz (Hg.), Contested Climate Justice – Challenged Democracy (2024), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593458205

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• 1. Understanding Extractivism
• 2. Making Sense of the Zimbabwean Context
• 3. The Nexus Between Climate Change and Extractivism in Zimbabwe
• 4. Extractivism and Neo‐Extractivism in Contested Political Spaces
• 5. Conclusion
• References
• Environmental Racism in Colonial Continuity: Extractivism, Socioecological Crisis and the Mapuche Struggle in Southern Chile | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_005 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_005)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_005
  Titel: Environmental Racism in Colonial Continuity: Extractivism, Socioecological Crisis and the Mapuche Struggle in Southern Chile
  Autor: Anna Landherr, Christian Alister, Jakob Graf, Dasten Julian und Johanna Sittel

  Beschreibung: In recent decades, extractivist industries in Chile have expanded significantly. One of these activities is industrial forestry, which is oriented towards the export of large quantities of pulp and is now one of the country’s most important economic sectors. However, its extremely extensive monocultures of pine and eucalyptus plantations in the central south of Chile are associated with widespread social exclusion and ecological destruction. But forestry is not the only source of conflict. In recent decades, Indigenous territory has been revalued for its potential to produce non-conventional renewable energies, which has meant the deployment of numerous hydroelectric, wind and photovoltaic projects that have opened up a new field of conflict. This is especially true in the former territory of the indigenous Mapuche. Their mode of production and living is particularly affected by the destruction of the ecosystems by forest plantations and energy projects. Our contribution shows, first, that especially in the context of progressive climate change, these industrial activities in the central south of Chile lead to considerable ecological destruction and social exclusion. Second, we demonstrate how this primarily affects the indigenous Mapuche and, third, how this can be understood as “environmental racism in colonial continuity”. Finally, our contribution will deal with the question of how the situation in Chile is currently being managed politically and how this is to be assessed.

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  Anna Landherr, Christian Alister, Jakob Graf, Dasten Julian und Johanna Sittel, Environmental Racism in Colonial Continuity: Extractivism, Socioecological Crisis and the Mapuche Struggle in Southern Chile , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_005, Seitenposition: 92
  aus dem Gesamtwerk: Christoph Richter (Hg.), Axel Salheiser (Hg.), Noah Marschner (Hg.), Janine Patz (Hg.), Contested Climate Justice – Challenged Democracy (2024), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593458205

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• 1. Environmental Racism Theory
• 2. The “Mapuche Case”: Ecological Crisis and Territorial Conflicts
• 3. Conclusion
• References
• Obstruction, Denialism, and Criticism of Climate Change in Brazil | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_006 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_006)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_006
  Titel: Obstruction, Denialism, and Criticism of Climate Change in Brazil
  Autor: Cristiana Losekann

  Beschreibung: Brazil’s non-state debate on climate change is complex. The entry of the climate frame is relatively recent and comes into contexts in which there were already strong actors discussing environmental issues from other frames. In this sense, not all consolidated actors in the environmental movement fully adhere to this agenda. On the other hand, the strengthening of right-wing movements strongly linked to anti-scientific and anti-environmentalist perspectives constitute fronts that oppose the climate change agenda and the idea of global warming as a real environmental problem. In addition, there are traditional political forces linked to specific economic interests that, although not located in right-wing movements, create concrete obstacles to advancing environmental agendas. These different forces put tension in the debate about climate change in Brazil today and constitute significant obstacles for those who seek to produce a severe critical debate regarding which climate policies would be necessary because of the regional context.Therefore, we present three tendencies of antagonism to the climate debate: climate obstruction, climate denialism, and environmental criticism. The objective is to understand how the first two movements harm the construction of environmentalist criticism.

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  Cristiana Losekann, Obstruction, Denialism, and Criticism of Climate Change in Brazil , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_006, Seitenposition: 110
  aus dem Gesamtwerk: Christoph Richter (Hg.), Axel Salheiser (Hg.), Noah Marschner (Hg.), Janine Patz (Hg.), Contested Climate Justice – Challenged Democracy (2024), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593458205

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• 1. Between Obstruction and Climate Denial
• 2. Socio‐Environmental Criticism
• 3. An Empirical Overview of Reactions to Obstructionism and Denialism
• 4. Conclusion
• References
• How Green and Just? Transition to Renewable Energy in Turkey | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_007 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_007)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_007
  Titel: How Green and Just? Transition to Renewable Energy in Turkey
  Autor: Hayriye Özen

  Beschreibung: his study examines the transition to renewable energy in Turkey under the AKP government. It seeks to explore from a political ecology perspective to what extent this transition was just and green. Taking into account the broader political economic structure and associated power relations, it demonstrates that the main driving force behind this transition is not green energy production, but to open new natural resources and areas to capital accumulation within the framework of the AKP government’s recently formulated economic policies. The study also shows how mainstream green discourse serves the AKP in legitimizing the opening up of new elements of nature to an exploitative form of renewable energy development that is neither fair nor green. Analysis of the Turkish case thus shows how new environmental and social crises could arise from the “green” transition advocated by the mainstream green discourse

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  Hayriye Özen, How Green and Just? Transition to Renewable Energy in Turkey , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_007, Seitenposition: 124
  aus dem Gesamtwerk: Christoph Richter (Hg.), Axel Salheiser (Hg.), Noah Marschner (Hg.), Janine Patz (Hg.), Contested Climate Justice – Challenged Democracy (2024), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593458205

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• 1. Renewable Energy in the Mainstream Green Discourse
• 2. Renewable Energy in the Turkish Context: Background
• 3. Renewable Energy Under the Rule of the AKP Government
• 4. Conclusion
• References
• Delay, Destruction, and Deception: The Greenwashing of the Japanese Government and Companies | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_008 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_008)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_008
  Titel: Delay, Destruction, and Deception: The Greenwashing of the Japanese Government and Companies
  Autor: Jusen Asuka

  Beschreibung: Green washingis prevalentin Japan as enacted by the Japanese Government, fossil fuel companies and utility companies. The Japanese government plans to spend more than 150 trillion yen (approximately 1 trillion U.S. dollar) as the total climate change related investment for the next ten years. However, the governmental plan is, alongside the big utility companies, to keep the existing energy system as long as possible because big utility companies’ main assets are still fossil fuel-fired power plants and nuclear power plants. So, combustion of ammonia/hydrogen with fossil fuel power plants and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) are supposed to play big roles in the governmental plan. Japan’s CO2 emission target for 2030 is not sufficient for the Paris Agreement target, and what’s more is that the current governmental climate policy is not even stringent enough to meet their insufficient target. However, the government claims that Japan’s target is consistent with the Paris Agreement and Japan is on track for achieving it. Automobile companies such as Toyota are lagging behind international competition’s work on electric vehicles, stating that there are various ways of achieving decarbonization to justify their backwardness.This situation will negatively impact the Japanese industries as a whole.

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  Jusen Asuka, Delay, Destruction, and Deception: The Greenwashing of the Japanese Government and Companies , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_008, Seitenposition: 144
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• 1. Japan Filled with Greenwashing
• 2. Insufficiency of the Quantified Target to Reduce GHG Emissions Set by the Japanese Government
• 3. Policies with Problems in Prioritizing
• 4. Risks in Toyota’s Omnidirectional Strategy
• 5. Conclusion
• References
• Cold War Environmentalism and Modernity’s Culture Wars: Understanding the USA Through a Comparison with Russia | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_009 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_009)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_009
  Titel: Cold War Environmentalism and Modernity’s Culture Wars: Understanding the USA Through a Comparison with Russia
  Autor: Teresa Ashe

  Beschreibung: he environmentalism of 1960s America was not associated with any particular political party—hopes of clean air, water and soil were universally accepted political goals. By the 1990s, the Republican party had not only rejected the need for environmental policy, but also environmental science itself. Party political identification from this point on gave a fairly accurate prediction of an individual’s attitude to environmentalissues.This chapter looks at the emergence of the American anti-environmental movement, which paved the way for the climate skepticism that now characterizes Republican attitudes to climate change. It considers the history of the American and Russian environmental movements and the American anti-environmental movement to show how land management, the development of geo-science and the relationship between science and the state during the ColdWar areimportant factors for understanding right wing rejections of climate science in America.

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  Teresa Ashe, Cold War Environmentalism and Modernity’s Culture Wars: Understanding the USA Through a Comparison with Russia , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_009, Seitenposition: 160
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• 1. Environmentalism in the US
• 2. The 1970s: Environmentalism and a Changing Science
• 3. Federal Land: The Problem with Experts
• 4. The Republican Break with Environmentalism and its Science
• 5. Early Russian Environmentalism
• 6. Soviet Environmentalism
• 7. Post‐Soviet Environmentalism
• 8. A Crisis of Modernity and a Threat to Democratic Cohesion
• 9. Conclusion
• References
• “Let Us Stop the Crazy Deal”: Environmentalism and the Green Deal in the Discourse of the Czech Populist Right‐Wing and Far‐Right Parties | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_010 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_010)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_010
  Titel: “Let Us Stop the Crazy Deal”: Environmentalism and the Green Deal in the Discourse of the Czech Populist Right-Wing and Far-Right Parties
  Autor: Zbyněk Tarant

  Beschreibung: The chapter analyzes how right-wing populist (SPD, Trikolora) and far-right milieus (neo-Nazis, neo-Fascists) discuss the environment, global climate change, sustainability, and the Green Deal. Primary sources, namely online content produced by the movements themselves are used to uncover the difference between localist environmentalism at the national level and the refusal to acknowledge the global, transnational threats to sustainable living.This will be documented by analyzing their reactions to global climate change policies and the Green New Deal. The chapter also touches on the conspiracy narratives within the far-right in response to international sustainability initiatives, like the Green New Deal.

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  Zbyněk Tarant, “Let Us Stop the Crazy Deal”: Environmentalism and the Green Deal in the Discourse of the Czech Populist Right-Wing and Far-Right Parties , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_010, Seitenposition: 180
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• 1. Freedom and Direct Democracy
• 2. Trikolora
• 3. Alliance for the Independence of the Czech Republic
• 4. Conclusion
• References
• Spain’s Vox and the “Climate Culture Wars”: The Role of Political Influencers on YouTube | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_011 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_011)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_011
  Titel: Spain’s Vox and the “Climate Culture Wars”: The Role of Political Influencers on YouTube
  Autor: Lluis de Nadal

  Beschreibung: Climate change is emerging as a central battleground in the culture wars, with YouTube as one of its key arenas. This chapter focuses on the “Alternative Influence Network” (Lewis, 2018) surrounding Spain’s right-wing populist party Vox, exploring how YouTube political influencers spread climate misinformation.Thematic analysis reveals a trend towards “post-denial” narratives that critique climate policy and the environmental movement, often through conspiracy theories and misogynistic undertones. These narratives intertwine with broader cultural conflicts, spanning from feminism and anti-racism to environmentalism. Amidst escalating opposition to green policies, the study sheds light on how these climate narratives deepen “us” versus “them” divides and conjure up feelings of resentment among young white males who see rapid cultural changes as threats to their traditional dominance and privilege. However, it also identifies potential common ground around shared environmental values and benefits like clean air.

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  Lluis de Nadal, Spain’s Vox and the “Climate Culture Wars”: The Role of Political Influencers on YouTube , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_011, Seitenposition: 194
  aus dem Gesamtwerk: Christoph Richter (Hg.), Axel Salheiser (Hg.), Noah Marschner (Hg.), Janine Patz (Hg.), Contested Climate Justice – Challenged Democracy (2024), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593458205

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• 1. Vox, a Threat to the Green Transition
• 2. Methods and Data
• 3. The “Climate Culture Wars” on YouTube
• 4. Conclusion
• References
• Countercultural Denial in the UK: “New” Social Movements? | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_012 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_012)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_012
  Titel: Countercultural Denial in the UK: “New” Social Movements?
  Autor: Victoria Esteves

  Beschreibung: limate change is a divisive issue within the United Kingdom, as policy and popular rhetoric circulating within England and Scotland can be at odds with one another. Whilst climate denial is problematic, it is by no means the first form of denialin the broader British cultural sphere. In order to comprehend climate change denial fully, it is useful to gain an understanding of denialism itself as it operates in the UK more broadly, including other sceptically ideological movements, both recent and historical. Ecologies of the Right go some way towards explaining these converging tendencies; however, postmodern deconstructionism—which has left-wing origins—also seems to permeate these sceptical lines of thought. Additionally, postmodernism itself has been adopted by right-wing nationalism (Wolin, 2019), evidencing that it might be more productive to think beyond current political alignments in order to understand climate denial more wholly.

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  Victoria Esteves, Countercultural Denial in the UK: “New” Social Movements? , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_012, Seitenposition: 208
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• The British Context
• Counterculture in the UK
• Scientific Countermovements
• Scientific Countermovements in the UK
• The Role of Identity and Postmodernism in Denialist Movements
• Conclusion
• References
• The (In‑)Justice League and the Battle of the Climate Narratives: An Ethnographic Study of Climate Policy Skepticism in the Norwegian Paradox | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_013 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_013)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_013
  Titel: The (In-)Justice League and the Battle of the Climate Narratives: An Ethnographic Study of Climate Policy Skepticism in the Norwegian Paradox
  Autor: Marthe Elden Wilhelmsen

  Beschreibung: This ethnographic study explored the justice perceptions of climate policy skeptics in Southern Norway. The data was generated through fieldwork from 2022–2024. The participants viewed themselves as marginalized truth-tellers in a moralized society, feeling excluded from the dominant climate discourse. Their climate skepticism was often driven by a sense of injustice, challenging the established narrative. This study underscores the significance of social identity and perception of exclusion in shaping climate skepticism. In this case, the injustice perception was linked to defending their privileges and themselves from change and responsibility. People’s different normative perceptions of climate justice and who we can trust determines their justice perception and feeling of injustice. To have a constructive conversation about climate policies, we need to understand what lies behind the climate skeptical claims.

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  Marthe Elden Wilhelmsen, The (In-)Justice League and the Battle of the Climate Narratives: An Ethnographic Study of Climate Policy Skepticism in the Norwegian Paradox , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_013, Seitenposition: 222
  aus dem Gesamtwerk: Christoph Richter (Hg.), Axel Salheiser (Hg.), Noah Marschner (Hg.), Janine Patz (Hg.), Contested Climate Justice – Challenged Democracy (2024), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593458205

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• 1. Climate Attitudes and Values
• 2. Ethnographic Research and a Peculiar Norwegian Paradox
• 3. Getting to Know a Climate Skeptic: Why Ethnography Was Vital
• 4. The Battlefield of Dominant Discourses
• 5. The Justice Warriors
• References
• Climate of Regression: Public Climate Attitudes and Radical Right Anti‐Climate Mobilization in the Battle Around the Green Transition in Germany | DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_014 (10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_014)

  DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_014
  Titel: Climate of Regression: Public Climate Attitudes and Radical Right Anti-Climate Mobilization in the Battle Around the Green Transition in Germany
  Autor: Christoph Richter, Axel Salheiser, Janine Patz und Noah Marschner

  Beschreibung: In the past, climate regressive movements and narratives have rather enjoyed a niche existence in public and political discourse in Germany. Recently, the more offensive climate policy under participation of the Green Party and the heated, populist debates about specific climate protection measures have increased public conflict concerning climate protection. The radical right, alongside parties of the democratic spectrum, successfully mobilizes fears of decline and loss against climate protection measures. Currently, there are indications that the formally high level of support for climate protection measures in Germany is decreasing. Against this background, we analyze a survey data set (N=8642) obtained in 2022/23 and investigate which of the numerous factors known from international research on climate perception and resistance to climate protection (including socio-demographic, socio-economic, political and cultural characteristics, as well as media use, institutional trust and exposure of climate risks) influence the perception of the climate crisis and the support for climate policies in Germany. In line with international research findings, our research points to a strong impact of political and cultural values, shaping attitudes towards climate change perception and action.

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  Christoph Richter, Axel Salheiser, Janine Patz und Noah Marschner, Climate of Regression: Public Climate Attitudes and Radical Right Anti-Climate Mobilization in the Battle Around the Green Transition in Germany , DOI: 10.12907/978-3-593-45820-5_014, Seitenposition: 236
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• Abstract
• 1. Literature Review: Climate Skepticism, Opinions on Climate Policies, and Right‐Wing Populist Attitudes
• 2. Definitions, Preliminary Considerations and Analysis Hypotheses
• 3. Database and Evaluation Methods
• 4. Results of the Analysis: Which Factors Influence Attitudes on Climate and Climate Policies?
• 5. Summary of Results: Cultural and Social Fault Lines of Conflict Over the Climate
• 6. Conclusion: Defending Inequalities in the Conflict over the Energy Transition
• Appendix
• References
• Authors