Doubt, Delay, and Discourse: Skeptics%26apos; Strategies to Politicize Climate Change

作者：Roper Juliet; Ganesh Shiv; Zorn Theodore E

来源：Science Communication, 2016, 38(6): 776-799.

DOI：10.1177/1075547016677043

• climate change
• global warming
• skeptics
• discourse
• political fields
• social fields
• discursive articulation

This article proposes a theoretical framework to explain climate skeptics' persuasive discursive strategies against anthropogenic global warming. By combining Bourdieu's notions of political and social fields with discursive articulation the framework explains skeptics' strategies to politicise climate change, generate debate, and delay political action. To illustrate the framework, we analyze publications of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, an internationally influential organization with strong links to U.S. conservative think tanks. Findings demonstrate strategies for polarization along lines of Left versus Right ideologies by linking climate change issues to prominent social discourses, thus garnering public support and delaying policy action.

• 出版日期2016-12