Climate Conversations: Discursive Strategies of Climate Justice Organizing

气候对话：气候正义组织的话语策略

• 批准号: 2103697
• 负责人: Julia Fine
• 金额: $ 13.8万
• 依托单位: Fine, Julia Coombs
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2103697&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Climate; Conversations; Discursive; Strategies; Justice

This award was provided as part of NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Corrie Grosse at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist examining discursive strategies of climate justice organizing. Previous research on climate change communication has largely focused on non-interactive, monologic texts that aim to inform or persuade audiences, rather than on interactive, dialogic conversations about climate change. However, many grassroots climate communicators and organizations currently see such climate conversations as essential for shifting attitudes and inspiring action. The proposed study applies an interactional sociolinguistic approach to the analysis of climate conversations, with the aim of identifying effective discursive strategies for advancing climate justice within and across specific sociocultural contexts in the United States.Through a participatory research framework that combines survey, interview, and discourse-analytic methods, the study will (a) examine how grassroots climate communicators employ climate conversations in their organizing and (b) identify characteristics of successful climate conversations, determining success through pre- and post-surveys of conversational participants’ climate-related actions and views. Through fine-grained analysis of interactional language use, this analysis will shed light on how slow-moving, intersectional crises such as climate change are managed in discourse. By prioritizing participation by marginalized climate justice organizers, such as Black and Indigenous organizers, this project will help to remedy the underrepresentation of these voices in previous research. The analysis of successful climate conversations will empower climate communicators to hone effective communicative strategies guided by scientific inquiry, helping to address the problem of low perceived efficacy, which has emerged as a barrier to climate action. Finally, the project will generate a corpus of climate conversations that will be of use to other researchers and climate change communication practitioners.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项是美国国家科学基金会社会、行为和经济科学博士后研究奖学金（SPRF）计划的一部分。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界、工业界或私营部门和政府的科学事业准备有前途的早期职业博士级科学家。SPRF奖励包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行为期两年的培训，并鼓励博士后进行独立研究。美国国家科学基金会寻求促进科学界各阶层的科学家，包括那些未被充分代表的群体的科学家，参与其研究项目和活动；博士后阶段被认为是实现这一目标的一个重要的专业发展阶段。每个博士后必须解决各自学科领域的重要科学问题。在圣本尼迪克特和圣约翰大学学院的科里·格罗斯博士的赞助下，这个博士后奖学金奖支持一位早期职业科学家研究气候正义组织的话语策略。以前关于气候变化传播的研究主要集中在旨在告知或说服受众的非互动性、单一文本上，而不是关于气候变化的互动性、对话性对话。然而，许多草根气候传播者和组织目前认为，这种气候对话对于转变态度和激励行动至关重要。本研究采用互动社会语言学方法对气候对话进行分析，旨在确定有效的话语策略，以促进美国特定社会文化背景内和跨社会的气候正义。通过结合调查、访谈和话语分析方法的参与式研究框架，本研究将(a)研究基层气候传播者如何在其组织中运用气候对话；(b)确定成功气候对话的特征，通过对对话参与者气候相关行动和观点的前后调查来确定成功。通过对互动语言使用的细粒度分析，这种分析将揭示如何在话语中管理缓慢的，交叉的危机，如气候变化。通过优先考虑边缘化的气候正义组织者（如黑人和土著组织者）的参与，该项目将有助于弥补这些声音在以前的研究中代表性不足的问题。对成功的气候对话的分析将使气候传播者能够在科学探究的指导下制定有效的沟通策略，有助于解决已成为气候行动障碍的低感知效能问题。最后，该项目将生成一个气候对话语料库，供其他研究人员和气候变化传播从业者使用。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Closing the concern-action gap through relational climate conversations: insights from US climate activists

• DOI: 10.1007/s44168-022-00027-0
• 发表时间: 2022-12-05
• 期刊: Climate Action

Climate Justice Communication: Strategies from U.S. Climate Activists

气候正义传播：美国气候活动人士的策略

• DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2023.2209291
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Environmental Communication
• 作者: Fine, Julia Coombs

Language and Social Justice in US Climate Movements: Barriers and Ways Forward

美国气候运动中的语言和社会正义：障碍和前进之路

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Frontiers in communication
• 影响因子: 2.4
• 作者: Julia Coombs Fine