Changing climate discourse and politics in India. Climate change as challenge and opportunity for diplomacy and development |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute for Infrastructure and Resources Management, Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Leipzig University, Grimmaische Straße 12, 04109 Leipzig, Germany;2. Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands;1. Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK;2. Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK;3. Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK;4. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK;5. Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK;6. The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), University of Manchester;7. Department of Geography, King’s College London;8. Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés (LISIS), Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée;9. Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex;10. Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK;1. Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Leuphana University, Central Building (Z10), Room No. 311, Universitätsallee 1, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany;2. Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, 1333 Grandview Avenue, Campus Box 488, Boulder, CO 80309-0488, United States;1. University of Manchester, Politics Department, Manchester, UK;2. Heidelberg University, Institute of Political Science, Bergheimer Straße 58, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany;3. University of Sheffield, Politics Department, Sheffield, UK;4. Heidelberg Center for the Environment, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany;1. Center for Energy Technologies, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark;2. Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), School of Business, Management, and Economics, University of Sussex, United Kingdom;1. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK;2. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK;3. Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, UK |
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| Abstract: | This article contributes to the study of changing climate discourse and policy in emerging powers through a case study of climate discourse in India since 2007. Based on interviews with key actors in Indian climate politics and textual analysis, three general climate discourses – the Third World, Win–Win and Radical Green discourses – are identified. The discourses are characterised by different constructions of India’s identity, interests, climate change exposure and climate policy orientation. At the most general level, the article finds that there has been a general discursive shift from the Third World discourse to the Win–Win discourse, and that the latter discourse is in broad agreement with the dominant international climate change discourse of ecological modernisation and thus supports an alignment between Indian and international climate politics. We also find, however, that India’s domestic climate politics is marked by co-existence and tensions between the three climate discourses, producing a complex and at times contentious discursive politics over climate change, identity and development. The case study presented in this article moreover demonstrates how national interests are socially constructed and how changes in policy reflect changes in the dominant discourse. |
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| Keywords: | Climate policy Discourse India Development Identity Ecological modernisation |
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