Article ID: CBB001221292

Climate Change Knowledge and Social Movement Theory (2010)

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This article discusses climate change knowledge from the perspective of social movement theory, a relatively neglected topic in the literature on climate change knowledge. This article reviews relevant studies and theories of social movements with special attention to the role of knowledge-making in social movements, before tracing the relations between social movements and climate change knowledge from the 1970s to the present. Climate change first emerged as an issue of public concern within the context of the environmental movements of the 1970s and 1980s, while skepticism was shaped, in significant ways, by the neo-conservative and neo-nationalist movements that grew to political significance in the 1980s and 1990s. The neo-liberal movements of the 1990s and 2000s have helped shape the recent rise to public attention of climate change as an overarching political problem. Finally, this article discusses how concerns with `climate justice' have emerged as part of a social movement for global justice, and concludes by contrasting the different social movements that have affected and influenced the making of climate change knowledge.

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Authors & Contributors
Bruner, Justin P.
James Owen Weatherall
Martin, Max
O'Connor, Cailin
Yuriko Furuhata
Reno, Joshua O.
Concepts
Climate change
Climate and climatology
Public understanding of science
Science and society
Science and politics
Controversies and disputes
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Queensland (Australia)
Islands of the Pacific
Japan
Australia
Great Britain
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