RT Journal Article
T1 “Save the Climate! Stop the Oil”: Actual Protest Behavior and Core Framing Tasks in the Portuguese Climate Movement
A1 Fernandes-Jesus, Maria
A1 Lima, Maria Luísa
A1 Sabucedo Cameselle, José Manuel
K1 Climate movement
K1 Protests
K1 Frame analysis
K1 Climate justice
K1 Moral path
AB In this article, we focus on two demonstrations against climate change that took place in Portugal on the 12th of November2016 and the 29th of April 2017. Two separate studies were conducted on the same protests. In Study 1, we conducted aquantitative study (N = 259), to examine the role of socio-demographics and socio-psychological predictors in predicting theactual protest. Participants were demonstrators (N = 158), as well as non-demonstrators (N = 101). Results indicated thatmoral motivation and identification as an environmentalist were the key variables in explaining actual protest. In Study 2, weconducted a framing analysis of the written manifestos (N = 2), to identify the core framing tasks which were used to inspireand legitimize the protests. The framing analysis suggests that the problems and paths for action were described by appealingto the interlinkage between the global and local dimensions of climate change, and that arguments of severity and urgency ofthe problem were the most salient. The implications of this research are discussed in relation to possible pathways for a morecomprehensive understanding of the reasons why people engage in collective action in climate change related issues, andhow these motives may relate to how social movements mobilize people for action
PB PsychOpen
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26088
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26088
LA eng
NO Fernandes-Jesus, M., Lima, M. L., & Sabucedo, J.-M. (2020). “Save the Climate! Stop the Oil”: Actual Protest Behavior and Core Framing Tasks in the Portuguese Climate Movement. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 8(1), 426-452
NO This work was supported by a postdoctoral research fellowship [grant number SFRH/BPD/103371/2014] and by funds of the Center for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (Cis-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) – Ref. UID/PSI/03125/2013), both funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia)
DS Minerva
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