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Vasna2023

Vasna Ramasar

Docent

Vasna2023

Fuel for revolt – moral arguments as delegitimation practices in Swedish fuel protests

Författare

  • Jens Portinson Hylander
  • Eric Brandstedt
  • Ellen Lycke
  • Vasna Ramasar
  • Henner Busch

Summary, in English

This article examines the role of moral arguments in the delegitimation of transition policies. Previous research has highlighted attitudes and arguments that explain resistance against transition policies, including perceptions of unfairness; inefficiency and effectiveness; lack of trust; and ideology. This article provides further understanding of resistance to climate policies by zooming in on how social movements implicitly and explicitly use moral arguments to delegitimise low-carbon transition policies. Through a qualitative interview study with members of a Swedish social media movement against low-carbon transport policies, we analyse central arguments against policies; how moral considerations figure in them; and how these strengthen argumentative delegitimation practices against transition policies in the transport sector. We show how moral arguments serve to legitimise protests both by instilling an urgency in the cause and generalising the demands to delegitimise mainstream transition policies, and suggest that recognition of this may contribute to both better analysis and policies.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi
  • Trafik och väg
  • Mänskliga rättigheter
  • LUCSUS
  • LU profilområde: Mänskliga rättigheter

Publiceringsår

2024-03-24

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1109-1129

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Environmental Politics

Volym

33

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • Human Geography
  • Political Science (excluding Peace and Conflict Studies)

Nyckelord

  • Bränsleupproret
  • delegitimation
  • fuel revolt
  • just transition
  • Moral arguments
  • resistance

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • Navigating Justice Claims: Between Riots, Strikes and Business as Usual

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0964-4016