Mediating climate politics
The surprising case of Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2398092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carmen Dayrell (0000-0003-0165-0884, Lancaster University), John Urry (Lancaster University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 257-273 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431015579962 |
| OpenAlex | W2143906649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article examines the centrality of Brazil within the future of climate policy and politics. The state of the carbon sink of the Amazon rainforest has long been an iconic marker of the condition of the Earth. Brazil has been innovative in developing many non-carbon forms of energy generation and use and it has played a major role in international debates on global warming since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. We examine various ways in which climate change has come to be centrally important in Brazilian public opinion. Survey evidence shows that Brazilians are the most concerned about issues of climate change - with less climate change scepticism as compared with more 'advanced' societies. Through using techniques of corpus linguistics we examine how Brazilian media has engendered and stabilized such a high and striking level of climate change concern. We show that the media helped to fix a 'climate change framing' of recent often strange weather. The article analyses the newly constructed Brazilian Corpus on Climate Change, presenting data on a scale and reach that is unique in this area of research
Amazon rainforest · Climate change · Earth Summit · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Geography · Global warming · Physical geography · Political economy · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Skepticism · Sociology · Summit · Sustainable development · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Law · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy · Ecology
‘Is climate science taking over the science?’
Social and health dimensions of climate change in the Amazon
Climate journalism in a changing media ecosystem
Preocupación por el cambio climático, condiciones económicas individuales y priorización del medioambiente en América Latina
Taming the Climate? Corpus analysis of politicians' speech on climate change
Reification and passivity in the face of climate change
Energy and society
Climate Change and Society
Societies Beyond Oil
The Economics of Climate Change
Down to the Wire
The Skeptical Environmentalist
Requiem for a Species
Modernization and Postmodernization
The Politics of Climate Change
Telling Stories About Global Climate Change
Why We Disagree about Climate Change
Cross-national comparison of the presence of climate scepticism in the print media in six countries, 2007–10
Climate governance in an international system under conservative hegemony
Beyond the ABC
Excess, Catastrophe, and Climate Change
Climate governance in the developing world
A Terra 'quente' na imprensa
Strange Weather, Again
Anti-reflexivity
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |