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    Poles apart?: The social construction of responsibility for climate change in Australia and Norway

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    Eckersley, R
    Date
    2013-01-01
    Source Title
    Australian Journal of Politics and History
    Publisher
    Wiley
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Eckersley, Robyn
    Affiliation
    School of Social and Political Sciences
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    Eckersley, R. (2013). Poles apart?: The social construction of responsibility for climate change in Australia and Norway. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 59 (3), pp.382-396. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12022.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/260525
    DOI
    10.1111/ajph.12022
    Abstract
    This article provides a comparative discourse analysis of the climate responsibility narratives of Australian and Norwegian political leaders during the period 2007-2012. The analysis focuses on how political leaders imagine their country's identity and role in the world and how they connect (or disconnect) these identities, roles and interests with responsibility for climate change, and with their respective energy policies. The analysis shows that the striking differences in mitigation ambition and responsibility discourses between Australia and Norway are clearly related, but cannot be reduced, to differences in their relative dependence on fossil fuel. Rather, differences in national identity and international role conception provide a far more illuminating account than a simple interest-based explanation. However, Australia and Norway are not quite so "poles apart" on their energy policies, and I briefly explore the implications of climate policy hypocrisy.

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