Exploring Travel Mobility Practices and Climate Change Communication: An Analysis of Chinese Millennials in Sweden
(2020) SMMM20 20201Department of Service Studies
- Abstract
- The climate change has become a popular discourse in western countries and there is a higher awareness of global warming than previously among the current millennials generation in China, while climate change is not a mainstream social discourse in China. Situated in the case of Chinese millennials studying in Sweden, a country with a high reputation as an environmental pioneer in preventing climate change, this study explores the role of climate change concern in contributing to the differences of Chinese millennials’ travel mobility practices before and after coming to Sweden as well as the exposure of different types of climate change communication and their perception. With the social practice theory, the analysis is conducted from... (More)
- The climate change has become a popular discourse in western countries and there is a higher awareness of global warming than previously among the current millennials generation in China, while climate change is not a mainstream social discourse in China. Situated in the case of Chinese millennials studying in Sweden, a country with a high reputation as an environmental pioneer in preventing climate change, this study explores the role of climate change concern in contributing to the differences of Chinese millennials’ travel mobility practices before and after coming to Sweden as well as the exposure of different types of climate change communication and their perception. With the social practice theory, the analysis is conducted from three elements: materials, meanings and competences, plus the values and beliefs from the psychological aspect and climate change communication. The findings highlight that climate change concern among Chinese millennials does not translate into the changed travel mobility practice before and after coming to Sweden through the in-depth interviews. Further, this study concludes that climate change concerns as competences barely play a role in determining the differences in the travel mobility practices, and the values and beliefs from both micro and macro level are barriers combined with communication deficits. It subsequently points out the need for climate change communication on affirmative measures, and an improved social scientific understanding of climate change. (Less)
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- author
- Zhuang, Wenyi LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SMMM20 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- climate change concerns, travel mobility practices, climate change communication, Chinese millennials, social practice theory
- language
- English
- id
- 9019272
- date added to LUP
- 2020-11-20 10:39:44
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- 2020-11-20 10:39:44
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abstract = {{The climate change has become a popular discourse in western countries and there is a higher awareness of global warming than previously among the current millennials generation in China, while climate change is not a mainstream social discourse in China. Situated in the case of Chinese millennials studying in Sweden, a country with a high reputation as an environmental pioneer in preventing climate change, this study explores the role of climate change concern in contributing to the differences of Chinese millennials’ travel mobility practices before and after coming to Sweden as well as the exposure of different types of climate change communication and their perception. With the social practice theory, the analysis is conducted from three elements: materials, meanings and competences, plus the values and beliefs from the psychological aspect and climate change communication. The findings highlight that climate change concern among Chinese millennials does not translate into the changed travel mobility practice before and after coming to Sweden through the in-depth interviews. Further, this study concludes that climate change concerns as competences barely play a role in determining the differences in the travel mobility practices, and the values and beliefs from both micro and macro level are barriers combined with communication deficits. It subsequently points out the need for climate change communication on affirmative measures, and an improved social scientific understanding of climate change.}},
author = {{Zhuang, Wenyi}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Exploring Travel Mobility Practices and Climate Change Communication: An Analysis of Chinese Millennials in Sweden}},
year = {{2020}},
}