"Huset brinner och vi måste rädda människorna": En kvalitativ studie om klimataktivisters användning av civil olydnad som verktyg för politisk förändring
(2023) RÄSK02 20231Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract
- This thesis presents a qualitative study, which investigates how active members of various climate movements in Sweden utilize civil disobedience as a tool for political change, and their relationship with the political and legal systems. Data was collected through six semi-structured interviews with activists from Sweden, Hungary and Denmark, as well as observations of two court hearings. The study employs the framework of legal consciousness according to Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey (1998) to explore the individual consciousness of climate activists, and how they justify their use of civil disobedience. The findings illustrate that climate activists exhibit more than one type of legal consciousness, namely a combination of With the... (More)
- This thesis presents a qualitative study, which investigates how active members of various climate movements in Sweden utilize civil disobedience as a tool for political change, and their relationship with the political and legal systems. Data was collected through six semi-structured interviews with activists from Sweden, Hungary and Denmark, as well as observations of two court hearings. The study employs the framework of legal consciousness according to Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey (1998) to explore the individual consciousness of climate activists, and how they justify their use of civil disobedience. The findings illustrate that climate activists exhibit more than one type of legal consciousness, namely a combination of With the law and Against the law consciousness. Furthermore, the activists have shown an awareness of the legal system that exceeded the researchers’ expectations.
The outcomes of this investigation unveil that the primary motivating factor for employing civil disobedience in climate activism is the Swedish government's inadequate response to the impending climate crisis. Moreover, the interviewees provided elaborate insights into civil disobedience, employing a conceptual framework that resonates with the notions of Against the law and With the law, as explained by Ewick and Silbey's 1998 schema of legal consciousness, as well as Fritsvold's 2009 addition to Ewick’s and Silbey’s model, "under the law”. This study sheds light on the intriguing and contrasting perspective that climate activists have about the law and the legal system as both essential, yet a hinder in pursuit of climate justice. (Less)
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- author
- Lürén, Sara Corinne LU and Almqvist, Lina LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- RÄSK02 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- civil disobedience, legal consciousness, climate activism, climate movement, Extinction Rebellion
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9132110
- date added to LUP
- 2023-07-04 14:11:05
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abstract = {{This thesis presents a qualitative study, which investigates how active members of various climate movements in Sweden utilize civil disobedience as a tool for political change, and their relationship with the political and legal systems. Data was collected through six semi-structured interviews with activists from Sweden, Hungary and Denmark, as well as observations of two court hearings. The study employs the framework of legal consciousness according to Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey (1998) to explore the individual consciousness of climate activists, and how they justify their use of civil disobedience. The findings illustrate that climate activists exhibit more than one type of legal consciousness, namely a combination of With the law and Against the law consciousness. Furthermore, the activists have shown an awareness of the legal system that exceeded the researchers’ expectations.
The outcomes of this investigation unveil that the primary motivating factor for employing civil disobedience in climate activism is the Swedish government's inadequate response to the impending climate crisis. Moreover, the interviewees provided elaborate insights into civil disobedience, employing a conceptual framework that resonates with the notions of Against the law and With the law, as explained by Ewick and Silbey's 1998 schema of legal consciousness, as well as Fritsvold's 2009 addition to Ewick’s and Silbey’s model, "under the law”. This study sheds light on the intriguing and contrasting perspective that climate activists have about the law and the legal system as both essential, yet a hinder in pursuit of climate justice.}},
author = {{Lürén, Sara Corinne and Almqvist, Lina}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{"Huset brinner och vi måste rädda människorna": En kvalitativ studie om klimataktivisters användning av civil olydnad som verktyg för politisk förändring}},
year = {{2023}},
}