“Save the Climate! Stop the Oil”: Actual Protest Behavior and Core Framing Tasks in the Portuguese Climate Movement

Abstract: In this article, we focus on two demonstrations against climate change that took place in Portugal on the 12th of November 2016 and the 29th of April 2017. Two separate studies were conducted on the same protests. In Study 1, we conducted a quantitative study (N = 259), to examine the role of socio-demographics and socio-psychological predictors in predicting the actual protest. Participants were demonstrators (N = 158), as well as non-demonstrators (N = 101). Results indicated that moral motivation and identification as an environmentalist were the key variables in explaining actual protest. In Study 2, we conducted a framing analysis of the written manifestos (N = 2), to identify the core framing tasks which were used to inspire and legitimize the protests. The framing analysis suggests that the problems and paths for action were described by appealing to the interlinkage between the global and local dimensions of climate change, and that arguments of severity and urgency of the .... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5247

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: “Save the Climate! Stop the Oil”: Actual Protest Behavior and Core Framing Tasks in the Portuguese Climate Movement ; volume:8 ; number:1 ; day:14 ; month:07 ; year:2020 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 8, Heft 1 (14.07.2020)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Fernandes-Jesus, Maria ; Lima, Maria Luísa ; Sabucedo, José-Manuel

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v8i1.1116
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004243150796560
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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