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How to evade a fossil gas trap

Schönning, Jacob LU (2021) STVK03 20202
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This paper examines to what extent a government decision concerning a debated climate issue was a result of the efforts of a climate justice campaign. In 2017, a campaign organisation was launched under the name ‘Fossilgasfällan’, and two and a half years later the Swedish government essentially met their most important demand. I argue that this was very likely indeed a consequence of a sustained mobilisation by the campaign, without which the decision would have been another. This claim is supported by evidence gathered through interviews and text material. Analysis and presentation is guided by the use of Resource Mobilisation theory. Thus, five types of resources, which previous studies of social movements have identified as possibly... (More)
This paper examines to what extent a government decision concerning a debated climate issue was a result of the efforts of a climate justice campaign. In 2017, a campaign organisation was launched under the name ‘Fossilgasfällan’, and two and a half years later the Swedish government essentially met their most important demand. I argue that this was very likely indeed a consequence of a sustained mobilisation by the campaign, without which the decision would have been another. This claim is supported by evidence gathered through interviews and text material. Analysis and presentation is guided by the use of Resource Mobilisation theory. Thus, five types of resources, which previous studies of social movements have identified as possibly important for a movements capacity to effectively mobilise, are outlined in the theory chapter and examined in the analysis. Furthermore, campaign activities, processes and impacts are presented in five phases, to distinguish each chain in the causation mechanism and pinpoint which resources were important for which phase. Additional explanatory variables are discussed, as well as an interesting finding which goes beyond the scope of resource mobilisation. (Less)
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author
Schönning, Jacob LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
Tracing the impact of a climate justice campaign
course
STVK03 20202
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Climate justice movement, policy impact, LNG-terminal, fossil gas, resource mobilisation, Sweden
language
English
additional info
I want to thank all my informants for helping me out with this work. Especially thanks to my anonymous activist, who provided essential information on the campaign.
id
9033044
date added to LUP
2021-05-25 12:54:28
date last changed
2021-05-25 12:54:28
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  abstract     = {{This paper examines to what extent a government decision concerning a debated climate issue was a result of the efforts of a climate justice campaign. In 2017, a campaign organisation was launched under the name ‘Fossilgasfällan’, and two and a half years later the Swedish government essentially met their most important demand. I argue that this was very likely indeed a consequence of a sustained mobilisation by the campaign, without which the decision would have been another. This claim is supported by evidence gathered through interviews and text material. Analysis and presentation is guided by the use of Resource Mobilisation theory. Thus, five types of resources, which previous studies of social movements have identified as possibly important for a movements capacity to effectively mobilise, are outlined in the theory chapter and examined in the analysis. Furthermore, campaign activities, processes and impacts are presented in five phases, to distinguish each chain in the causation mechanism and pinpoint which resources were important for which phase. Additional explanatory variables are discussed, as well as an interesting finding which goes beyond the scope of resource mobilisation.}},
  author       = {{Schönning, Jacob}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{How to evade a fossil gas trap}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}