Will the pipelines ever blow up? A mixed methods study of attitudes towards political violence in the Swedish environmental movement
(2024) STVM25 20241Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Climate and environmental activists in Sweden have never been more confrontational than now. However, despite previous research on social movements giving reason to expect a radicalisation and turn to political violence within the environmental movement, such a development has so far not occurred. This thesis examines the views and attitudes towards political violence directed at inanimate objects and property in the Swedish environmental movement through a mixed-methods study using primary material gathered through a survey. A combination of statistics and text analysis are used to map the data. The results find confirmation of the main hypothesis that some within the Swedish environmental movement will have positive attitudes towards... (More)
- Climate and environmental activists in Sweden have never been more confrontational than now. However, despite previous research on social movements giving reason to expect a radicalisation and turn to political violence within the environmental movement, such a development has so far not occurred. This thesis examines the views and attitudes towards political violence directed at inanimate objects and property in the Swedish environmental movement through a mixed-methods study using primary material gathered through a survey. A combination of statistics and text analysis are used to map the data. The results find confirmation of the main hypothesis that some within the Swedish environmental movement will have positive attitudes towards political violence against inanimate objects and property. Additionally, it is explored whether there are particular characteristics shared among participants who have positive attitudes towards political violence. Hypotheses that respondents who are male, young, socioeconomically middle class, have previously participated in activism and are well integrated into the movement, have more positive views of political violence are all tested finding varying support and providing a base for further research. (Less)
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- author
- Tollmar Thempo, Harriet LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVM25 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Political violence, radicalisation, attitudes, environmental movement, Sweden
- language
- English
- id
- 9152886
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- 2024-07-18 14:02:29
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abstract = {{Climate and environmental activists in Sweden have never been more confrontational than now. However, despite previous research on social movements giving reason to expect a radicalisation and turn to political violence within the environmental movement, such a development has so far not occurred. This thesis examines the views and attitudes towards political violence directed at inanimate objects and property in the Swedish environmental movement through a mixed-methods study using primary material gathered through a survey. A combination of statistics and text analysis are used to map the data. The results find confirmation of the main hypothesis that some within the Swedish environmental movement will have positive attitudes towards political violence against inanimate objects and property. Additionally, it is explored whether there are particular characteristics shared among participants who have positive attitudes towards political violence. Hypotheses that respondents who are male, young, socioeconomically middle class, have previously participated in activism and are well integrated into the movement, have more positive views of political violence are all tested finding varying support and providing a base for further research.}},
author = {{Tollmar Thempo, Harriet}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Will the pipelines ever blow up? A mixed methods study of attitudes towards political violence in the Swedish environmental movement}},
year = {{2024}},
}