دورية
Knowledge, Fear, and Conscience: Reasons to Stop Flying Because of Climate Change
| العنوان: | Knowledge, Fear, and Conscience: Reasons to Stop Flying Because of Climate Change |
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| المؤلفون: | Wormbs, Nina, Wolrath Söderberg, Maria |
| المصدر: | Urban Planning, 6, 2, 314-324, Cities, Long-Distance Travel, and Climate Impacts |
| بيانات النشر: | PRT, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Psychologie, Ökologie, Psychology, Ecology, arguments, children, flight shame, inner deliberation, knowledge-action gap, stop flying, topos, Allgemeine Psychologie, Ökologie und Umwelt, General Psychology, Ecology, Environment, Luftverkehr, Verkehrsverhalten, Verkehrsmittelwahl, Klimawandel, Umweltbewusstsein, Verzicht, Verhaltensänderung, Motivation, air traffic, traffic behavior, choice of means of transport, climate change, environmental consciousness, renunciation, behavior modification, motivation |
| الوصف: | Much research on the societal consequences of climate change has focused on inaction, seeking to explain why societies and individuals do not change according to experts’ recommendations. In this qualitative study, we instead consider people who have changed their behaviour for the sake of the climate: They have stopped travelling by air. We first asked them to elaborate their rationales for the behaviour change. Then, using topos theory to find thought structures, we analysed their 673 open-text answers. Several themes emerged, which together can be regarded as a process of change. Increased knowledge, primarily narrated as a process by which latent knowledge was transformed into insight, through experience or emotional distress, was important. Contrary to certain claims in the literature, fear stimulated change of behaviour for many in this group. Climate change was framed as a moral issue, requiring acts of conscience. Children were invoked as educators and moral guides. Role models and a supportive social context played an important part. Alternatives to flying were brought forward as a motive to refrain from flying. Only a few mentioned shame as momentous. Instead, stopping travelling by air invoked a feeling of agency and responsibility, and could also result in a positive sensation. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Zeitschriftenartikel journal article |
| تدمد: | 2183-7635 |
| DOI: | 10.17645/up.v6i2.3974 |
| URL الوصول: | https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/74265 |
| حقوق: | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsgso.74265 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 21837635 |
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| DOI: | 10.17645/up.v6i2.3974 |