Under Pressure: Crisis, Emotions, and Political Transformations around Climate Change
Provider | Czech Science Foundation |
Programme | Standard project |
Project code | 22-00800S |
Participants | Faculty of Social Sciences Charles University (coordinator), Metropolitan University Prague |
This interdisciplinary project analyses climate change through its ability to transform political practice, its actors and the conditions of social cohesiveness. It argues that climate change is an example of a ‘crisis’ – sudden and radical transformation of a society and its values – which fundamentally changes political practice and its actors. The project asks about the nature of these changes and their influence on the formation of policies on international, local and civil society levels. On these levels, the project analyses the impact of the crisis on the articulation and legitimization of policies, and on the transformation of narratives of basic social values. Theoretically, it departs from the recent ’emotional turn’ in political science and sociology, which argues for the necessity to analyse the role of emotions in legitimization of policies. Apart from standard social science methods, the project also makes use of a variety of innovative techniques including automated text analysis, citizen-expert panels and focus groups.
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