Competing Climate Cultures in Germany : : Variations in the Collective Denying of Responsibility and Efficacy / / Sarah Kessler.

• VerfasserIn: Kessler, Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Soziologie der Nachhaltigkeit Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)

Despite frequent protests and abounding discussions about the subject, climate action measures to counter human-made climate change have so far remained largely ineffective. By identifying profound climate-cultural differences, Sarah Kessler offers an explanation to this issue and shows that convent...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of abbreviations
• List of tables
• Preface & Acknowledgements
• Summary
• Part I - Introduction
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Lack of consensus on the IPCC consensus
• 1.2 Structure of study
• Part II - Theoretical and methodological framework
• 2 Literature review and theoretical foundations
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Responsibility
• 2.3 Efficacy
• 2.4 Ways of knowing
• 2.5 The social organisation of denial
• 2.6 Divergent cultures of climate action and denial
• 2.7 Conclusion
• 3 Methods
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Background
• 3.3 Research design
• 3.4 Expert interview analysis
• 3.5 Media analysis
• 3.6 Focus group interviews with professional groups
• 3.7 Conclusion
• Part III - Empirical findings
• 4 Expert interviews
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Statements concerning responsibility
• 4.3 Statements related to efficacy
• 4.4 Statements about knowing
• 4.5 Statements pointing towards denial
• 4.6 Conclusion
• 5 Media analysis: Public debates about climate change
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Elite climate cultures
• 5.3 Climate cultures 'from below'
• 5.4 Conclusion
• 6 The seven focus group discussions
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 I really don't care what comes out of the plane in terms of CO2 - Craftsmen
• 6.3 We only worry about climate change because we are well off - Green startup
• 6.4 There is no [basic human] right to travel by plane - NGO
• 6.5 Climate just exists and cannot be changed - Farmers
• 6.6 I don't think flying per se is as bad as it is always made out to be - Mobility provider
• 6.7 I have not once heard the word 'sustainability' since working here - Industrial enterprise
• 6.8 Flying is indeed something that I don't prohibit for myself - Teachers
• 6.9 Conclusion
• Part IV - Discussion, recommendations and outlook
• 7 Discussion
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Climate action as 'elite project' obscures climate-cultural diversity
• 7.3 Differentiating climate cultures: Responsibility, efficacy and knowing
• 7.4 Differences in denial
• 7.5 Policy recommendations
• 7.6 Outlook
• 8 Conclusion
• References