Narratives and climate politics

Abstract

This panel examines the narrative dimension of environmental politics, and in particular, of climate politics. Narratives play crucial roles in mobilising ambition, but also in glossing over inambition. One may even insinuate that the role of narratives becomes ever more crucial the more constrained the scope for action is - or so it seems. Papers in this panel deal with narratives on diferent levels: the official 'green' narratives of the European Union, the environmental narrative of the IMF, the green discourse of a leftist-populist party in France and the role of utopian thinking in the anthropocene.

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Is there hope for climate action: The role of crises, memory, and imagined futures	View Paper Details
Green is the new black: the European Union’s green agenda, its narratives, and the fantasies that animate them	View Paper Details
Greener than the Greens? An analysis of La France insoumise’s ‘popular environmentalist’ discourse	View Paper Details
The future is set in stone: on utopian thinking in the Anthropocene	View Paper Details