“Save the climate! Stop the oil”: Actual protest behavior and core framing tasks in the Portuguese climate movement

In this article, we focus on two demonstrations against climate change that took place in Portugal on the 12th of November 2016 and the 29th of April 2017. Two separate studies were conducted on the same protests. In Study 1, we conducted a quantitative study (N = 259), to examine the role of socio-demographics and socio-psychological predictors in predicting the actual protest. Participants were demonstrators (N = 158), as well as non-demonstrators (N = 101). Results indicated that moral motivation and identification as an environmentalist were the key variables in explaining actual protest. In Study 2, we conducted a framing analysis of the written manifestos (N = 2), to identify the core framing tasks which were used to inspire and legitimize the protests. The framing analysis suggests that the problems and paths for action were described by appealing to the interlinkage between the global and local dimensions of climate change, and that arguments of severity and urgency of the problem were the most salient. The implications of this research are discussed in relation to possible pathways for a more comprehensive understanding of the reasons why people engage in collective action in climate change related issues, and how these motives may relate to how social movements mobilize people for action. peerReviewed publishedVersion

本文聚焦2016年11月12日与2017年4月29日在葡萄牙发生的两起气候变化抗议活动。针对该两场抗议活动，本研究开展了两项独立实证研究。第一项为量化研究（样本量N=259），旨在探究社会人口统计学特征与社会心理学预测因子在实际抗议行为预测中的作用；研究参与者包含158名抗议参与者与101名未参与抗议者。结果显示，道德动机与环保主义者身份认同是解释实际抗议行为的核心变量。第二项研究针对两份书面抗议宣言开展框架分析，以识别用于激发抗议并使其合法化的核心框架任务。框架分析结果表明，该研究通过结合气候变化的全球与地方维度间的内在关联来阐释问题与行动路径，且关于问题严重性与紧迫性的论述为最具显著性的论证。本研究探讨了其研究意义，旨在为更全面地理解人们参与气候变化相关集体行动的动因，以及这些动机如何与社会运动动员民众参与行动的机制相关联提供可行的研究路径。经同行评审的正式发表版本