Including those associated with class-centered and growth-sceptic views of society andĮconomic development, remain largely absent. In contrast, more radical and alternative perspectives on the subject of climate change, Modernization emerging as an increasingly dominant discourse that is supported by Late 1990s until today show the coexistence of different narratives, with ecological Content analyses of media coverage from the Topics of major public concern in Ireland such as extreme weather events, flooding,Įnergy resources, or economic recovery. The mainstream media, which is further amplified by its segregation from closely related Research to date reveals the marginalization of climate change in In recognising only their individualised consumer-related forms of decarbonisation reformism greatly limits opportunities for public involvement.Ĭlimate change communication research in Ireland has only recently emerged as aĭistinct field of inquiry. Moreover the dominant reformist approach is depicted here as disenfranchising the role of the general public, tending to individualise their possibilities for involvement. The data collected points to the role in enhancing climate change engagement of higher expert literacy, socially empowered communities and moral framing and vice versa: the diminutive effect on engagement when these properties are absent. It reveals a powerful connection between social distance from dominant culture and the quality of the receptiveness to the high-cultural and technical veneer of dominant depictions of climate change. The thesis demonstrates how inputting the social into research on climate change receptivity highlights the unequal access to choice that participants have towards engaging with climate change. My thesis also investigates how research participants contribute to their own climate change receptivity. More specifically my work looks at how different social conditions and power relations contribute to diversified climate change perceptions and responses between certain groups: namely teachers, environmental activists, farmers, businessmen and lower economic groups.

This apprehension is made up of dispositions that, functioning predominantly at an unconscious level, guide our behaviour and how we classify issues and the actions of others, including those pertaining to climate change. He viewed practices and power relations, associated with positions within society, as central to the formation of a ‘practical apprehension’ of the world for the occupants of those positions. It provides a methodological framework for examining the social dimensions of climate change perceptions and responses built around the socio-cultural theories and methods of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.

This project examines public receptivity to climate change in Ireland and how this receptivity is connected to the structure of Irish society and the translation of ‘climate change’ into that society.

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