Palm oil not polar bears: climate change and development in Malaysian media
Palm oil not polar bears: climate change and development in Malaysian media
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DOI：
10.1111/tran.12129
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发表时间：
2016-10
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Kate Manzo;R. Padfield
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作者：
Kate Manzo;R. Padfield
迄今为止，国家媒体关于气候变化报道的争论主要集中在西方民主国家。我们的目标是通过研究马来西亚的气候变化报告来扩大跨国比较的范围。马来西亚是全球南方的一个新兴经济体，面临着许多人共同的发展紧张局势，特别是在一个主要依赖初级商品开采和出口的经济体面前，雄心勃勃的国家气候变化议程。我们的问题是：马来西亚媒体如何报道气候变化？马来西亚的叙述与其他地方的叙述相比如何？气候变化和发展叙事如何在“二线”新兴经济体中相互作用？最后，这些相互作用的叙述对新自由主义和南北气候变化与发展观点的重要性有何说明？为了回答这些问题，我们对五年间（2009-2011）在五个英语新闻来源发布的气候行动故事进行了内容分析。除了所有新闻来源中以环境为主题的文章比例很高之外，我们的研究结果表明，气候变化已被视为发展中两个关键利益相关者的多尺度责任和积极机遇，即新自由主义市场力量和地缘政治参与者，他们热衷于按照 20 世纪 70 年代新国际经济秩序 (NIEO) 的要求重组国际政治经济。我们将分析中出现的关键主题标记为气候资本主义和绿色民族主义（这两者都不是马来西亚独有的），同时证明有关棕榈油的辩论特别说明了这些主题在马来西亚背景下的相互作用。在最后一节中，我们建议将相互作用的要素视为一种单一的、结构主义的绿色发展模式——这种模式让人想起其他新兴经济体的运作模式。本文中的信息、实践和观点仅代表作者的观点，并不一定反映皇家地理学会（与 IBG）的意见。
To date, debates about climate change reporting in national media focus largely on Western democracies. We aim to broaden the scope for cross-national comparison by looking at climate change reporting in Malaysia – an emerging economy in the global South facing developmental tensions common to many, specifically an ambitious national climate change agenda in the face of an economy largely reliant on the extraction and export of primary commodities. Our questions are: How is climate change framed in Malaysian media? How do Malaysian narratives compare with those found elsewhere? How do climate change and development narratives interact in a ‘second tier’ emerging economy? And lastly, what do these interacting narratives say about the salience of neoliberal and North–South perspectives on climate change and development? To answer these questions, we undertook a content analysis of climate action stories published over a three-year period (2009–2011) in five English-language news sources. In addition to a high proportion of environmental-framed articles across all the news sources, our findings show that climate change has been framed as both a multi-scalar responsibility and a positive opportunity for two key stakeholders in development, i.e. neoliberal market forces and geopolitical actors keenly interested in restructuring the international political economy along lines reminiscent of the new international economic order (NIEO) demands of the 1970s. We label the key themes emergent from our analysis as climate capitalism and green nationalism (neither of which are unique to Malaysia), while demonstrating that debates about palm oil are particularly illustrative of the interaction of these themes in the Malaysian context. In the final section we suggest thinking of the interacting elements as a singular, structuralist model of green development – one reminiscent of discourses at work in other emerging economies. The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).