TY - JOUR

T1 - Inter-Risk Framing Contests

T2 - The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during the Coronavirus Pandemic

AU - Enggaard, Thyge Ryom

AU - Isfeldt, Annika Solveig Hedegaard

AU - Kvist Møller, Anna Helene

AU - Carlsen, Hjalmar Alexander Bang

AU - Albris, Kristoffer

AU - Blok, Anders

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - In this paper, we study the framing activities of Scandinavian climate-active non-governmental organizations (NGOs) during the early phases of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Building on theories of focusing events, crisis exploitation, and Ulrich Beck’s global risks, we develop and apply the concept of inter-risk framing contests to the case. Empirically, we analyse all climate- and corona-related tweeting activity of a broad selection of green NGOs in Denmark (17 NGOs, 874 tweets), Norway (22 NGOs, 2575 tweets) and Sweden (15 NGOs, 920 tweets), respectively. Methodologically, we employ quantitative text analysis to map socio-symbolic constellations of NGO-term relations using principal component analysis (PCA), while com-plementing this via online ethnographic observation to increase interpretative validity. Overall, the analysis demonstrates similarities and differences in how green NGOs have variously re-sponded to the ambiguous challenges and symbolic opportunities of the coronavirus event, in ways resonant with path-dependent dynamics of the three national green civil societies.

AB - In this paper, we study the framing activities of Scandinavian climate-active non-governmental organizations (NGOs) during the early phases of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Building on theories of focusing events, crisis exploitation, and Ulrich Beck’s global risks, we develop and apply the concept of inter-risk framing contests to the case. Empirically, we analyse all climate- and corona-related tweeting activity of a broad selection of green NGOs in Denmark (17 NGOs, 874 tweets), Norway (22 NGOs, 2575 tweets) and Sweden (15 NGOs, 920 tweets), respectively. Methodologically, we employ quantitative text analysis to map socio-symbolic constellations of NGO-term relations using principal component analysis (PCA), while com-plementing this via online ethnographic observation to increase interpretative validity. Overall, the analysis demonstrates similarities and differences in how green NGOs have variously re-sponded to the ambiguous challenges and symbolic opportunities of the coronavirus event, in ways resonant with path-dependent dynamics of the three national green civil societies.

U2 - 10.1177/00380385221150379

DO - 10.1177/00380385221150379

M3 - Journal article

JO - Sociology

JF - Sociology

SN - 0038-0385

ER -