You are cordially invited to the seminar entitled Climate change discourse in authoritarian states: an exploratory study, which will be hosted by
Dr. Marianna Poberezhskaya from Nottingham Trent University, UK,
as part of the NextGenPhDs NAWA STER project
The workshop will take place on-line on 12 December at 14.00
Description: Over the last two decades it has been demonstrated that despite climate change being a highly scientific problem, its communication has been substantially impacted by political and economic actors and events, that often have nothing to do with the environmental crisis (Carvalho & Burgess, 2005). Some argue that we live in a period when the science of climate change has been replaced by the politics of climate change (Bell, 1994, Lewis & Boyce, 2009). The interference of politics slows any consensus on how climate change is perceived and dealt with (Gavin & Marshall, 2011). Another problem is that climate change communication often stays within ideological constraints (Olausson, 2009), rarely questioning the political and economic foundations that lead to the exponential growth of GHG emissions (Lewis & Boyce, 2009). This is an even a bigger problem for developing authoritarian countries with strong centralisation of power and limited civic society. Inspired by the extensive prior research on climate discourse in Russia, Kazakhstan and Jordan, this paper offers an exploratory theoretical study on how authoritarian regimes affect national climate discourse.
Bio: Marianna Poberezhskaya is an Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Poberezhskaya’s research interests include environmental communication, climate skepticism, geoengineering, and national climate governance. Since 2009, she has been studying authoritarian regimes and their approaches to climate change discourse, including extensive research on official and media climate discourses in Russia. She is currently also involved in research projects in Central Asia and Jordan.
Photo: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/social-sciences/marianna-poberezhskaya
