1st Edition

Social Mobilisation for Climate Change

218 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is the outcome of an interdisciplinary research process aimed at capturing the complexity of the social mobilisation for climate change. It brings together various academic perspectives to understand the diverse forms of climate activism, challenging traditional notions of agency, space, justice, and legality. The reader will broaden their understanding of the social mobilisation for... Read more

Preface
Elena Nalato, Valentina E. Albanese, Stefano Fanetti, Roberta Minazzi

 

Contributors

 

1. Media narratives and activists’ digital practices about climate change in Italy: a multi-channel analysis

Valentina E. Albanese and Teresa Graziano

 

2. Change the system not the climate. How the Talanoa Dialogue contributed to procedural justice in the global climate negotiating system
Beatrice Ruggieri

 

3. Environmental justice and transformative geographies in the discourses of the environmental movement in Brindisi

Federica Epifani

 

4. Murals for sustainability: walking among Turin’s streets

Stefania Benetti

 

5. Environmental digital activism: profile and main drivers

Roberta Minazzi, Michela Segato, Daniele Grechi

 

6. The Gen Z attitude-behaviour gap in digital green activism
David D’Acunto

 

7. Youth climate activism: political and regulatory outcomes

Francesca Ainger and Stefano Fanetti

 

8. Persuasion, pride, prejudice. Interpretive communities and their winning arguments in a time of climate narratives

Matteo Nicolini

 

9. Citizens’ assemblies on climate change. Climate democracy in the Anthropocene

Enrico Buono

 

10. The development of climate change litigation and its financing in a comparative perspective: contingency fee agreements, crowdfunding, and third-party funding
Valentina Jacometti

 

11. Climate disobedience: criminal conduct or democratic right? A constitutional law perspective
Francesco Gallarati

 

12. Social mobilisation for climate change: the Belt and Road Initiative and the case of the Lamu coal plant in Kenya

Barbara Pozzo

Biography

Valentina E. Albanese is Associate Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Cultural Geography, and Tourism Geography at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy.

Stefano Fanetti is Assistant Professor of Private Comparative Law at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy, where he teaches Environmental Law and Swiss Comparative Law.

Roberta Minazzi is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy, where she teaches Tourism Management and Destination Management for Hospitality.