Climate Action in a Globalizing World

Carl Cassegård is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. He is currently researching Japanese social movements with a focus on the precarity movement and the environmental movement. Linda Soneryd is Lecturer and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. Her research currently focuses on environmental movements and climate change, transboundary governance and water management, and stakeholder involvement in spatial planning. Håkan Thörn is Full Professor of Sociology, based at the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses social movements, globalization and power. Åsa Wettergren is Associate Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. Her main research interest is in the sociology of emotions, researching a wide array of topics involving this perspective.

"At a time when the prospects of dealing with climate change have taken a drastic turn for the worse, with the election of Donald Trump as US President, this book provides a glimmer of hope with its in-depth study of climate activism throughout the world. Highly recommended!" - Andrew Jamison, Aalborg University, Denmark"This book could not be more timely. Climate change is the most important issue facing humanity in the twenty-first century. This comparative study of climate change activism helps us understand how it might best be confronted." - Ronald Eyerman, Yale University, USA"With a firm understanding of both environmental politics and the latest theoretical thinking, this book persuasively unravels the relationships between policymaking and social movements, power, responsibility and resistance. In so doing, it reveals the complexity of global climate governance but also demonstrates the inseparability of climate and global justice. No reader can be left in doubt about the challenges, dilemmas and opportunities facing climate action and climate activism." - Alan Irwin, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Chapter 1: Climate action in a globalizing world – an introductionPart I: Global Perspectives: COP as a space for climate actionChapter 2: Climate justice, equity and movement mobilization Chapter 3: Governing dissent in a state of emergency: police and protester interactions in the global space of the COP Chapter 4: Mobilizing emotions in the global sphere: global solidarity and the regime of rationality Chapter 5: COP as a global public sphere: news media frames, movement frames and media standing of climate movement actorsPart II: National environmental movements in global context: United States, Japan, Denmark and SwedenChapter 6: Learning From Defeat: The Strategic Reorientation of the U.S. Climate MovementChapter 7: Between Government and Grassroots: Challenges to Institutionalization in the Japanese Environmental Movement Chapter 8: Denmark – from a green economy toward a new eco-radicalism? Chapter 9: The Swedish environmental movement: politics of responsibility between climate justice and local transition PART III: Concluding reflections: new perspectives on climate actionChapter 10: Hegemony and environmentalist strategy - global governance, movement mobilization, and climate justice