Varjú VIKTOR, Institute for Regional Studies, KRTK, Hungary
Yuval-Davis NIRA, University of East London, United Kingdom
Rosen ROLLY, University of Haifa, Israel
Research on pro-environmental behaviour or pro-climate behaviour (e.g. Bodor et al., 2020) usually focuses on the analysis of the attitude and behaviour of everyday people. Few investigations focus on experts, stakeholders and policymakers and on the issue, how political projects affect the ways these crises are understood.
This research approaches the above issues on two levels. Firstly, it aims to reveal the extent to which political affiliations and geographical and social/cultural factors influence attitudes of experts towards climate change in Hungary, as well as how experts see the questions of: How does belonging to certain social groups appear in discourses? Will it become apparent? Are the attitudes of experts affected by their belonging? The reason for the latter question is that these experts are creating mitigation and adaptation strategies; hence, it is important to understand what is behind their pro-climate constructions. Secondly, the research examines press discourses in mainstream centre- left and right newspapers on climate change and how this affects national and international politics in the UK, Israel and Hungary.
Both investigations use the methodological approach of “situated intersectionality” (e.g. Yuval-Davis, 2015; Yuval-Davis & al., 2017; Yuval-Davis & al., 2019), and will examine debates on climate change and belonging. In this approach both cultural perspectives on a social phenomenon as well as the differential situated gazes of local actors and experts are encompassed.
To do so, we selected one centre-right and one centre-left mainstream newspaper in the countries and selected 3 international and 3 country specific illustrative cases to study the specific constructions of climate crisis. The Hungarian deep analysis based on 28 structured individual interviews with stakeholders involved in climate change actions.
Mots clés : climate change|politics|belonging|regional differences
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