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DOI	10.1007/s10584-019-02477-8
	Local climate change cultures: climate-relevant discursive practices in three emerging economies
	Nash N.; Whitmarsh L.; Capstick S.; Gouveia V.; de Carvalho Rodrigues Araújo R.; dos Santos M.; Palakatsela R.; Liu Y.; Harder M.K.; Wang X.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0165-0009
英文摘要	In recent decades, greater acknowledgement has been given to climate change as a cultural phenomenon. This paper takes a cultural lens to the topic of climate change, in which climate-relevant understandings are grounded in wider cultural, political and material contexts. We approach climate-relevant accounts at the level of the everyday, understood as a theoretically problematic and politically contested space This is in contrast to simply being the backdrop to mundane, repetitive actions contributing to environmental degradation and the site of mitigative actions. Taking discourse as a form of practice in which fragments of cultural knowledge are drawn on to construct our environmental problems, we investigate citizens’ accounts of climate-relevant issues in three culturally diverse emerging economies: Brazil, South Africa and China. These settings are important because greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are predicted to significantly increase in these countries in the future. We conducted semi-structured interviews with a range of citizens in each country using a narrative approach to contextualise climate-relevant issues as part of people’s lifestyle narratives. Participants overwhelmingly framed their accounts in the context of locally-salient issues, and few accounts explicitly referred to the phenomenon of climate change. Instead, elements of climate changes were conflated with other environmental issues and related to a wide range of cultural assumptions that influenced understandings and implied particular ways of responding to environmental problems. We conclude that climate change scholars should address locally relevant understandings and develop dialogues that can wider meanings that construct climate-relevant issues in vernacular ways at the local level. © 2019, The Author(s).
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Gas emissions; Greenhouse gases; Cultural knowledge; Emerging economies; Environmental issues; Environmental problems; Semi structured interviews; South Africa; Climate change
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147558
作者单位	School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom; Department of Psychology, Federal University of Paraiba, João Pessoa, Brazil; School of English and Media Studies, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand; Department of Psychology, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa; RI Ethnographic Research Studio, London, United Kingdom; Fudan Tyndall Center, Department of Environment and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nash N.,Whitmarsh L.,Capstick S.,et al. Local climate change cultures: climate-relevant discursive practices in three emerging economies[J],2019.
APA	Nash N..,Whitmarsh L..,Capstick S..,Gouveia V..,de Carvalho Rodrigues Araújo R..,...&Wang X..(2019).Local climate change cultures: climate-relevant discursive practices in three emerging economies.Climatic Change.
MLA	Nash N.,et al."Local climate change cultures: climate-relevant discursive practices in three emerging economies".Climatic Change (2019).