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Lead partner: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Research team: Aron Buzogány, Patrick Scherhaufer
Our work concerns national and transnational forms of environmental and climate activism in Europe-writ-large (i.e. including not only EU, but also countries of the Neighbourhood region). Among the questions we will address is how different forms of EU integration are influencing (or not) social movements’ and and civil society actor’s strategies directly or indirectly, e.g. through changing the legal context. A related second question we are interested in concerns processes of knowledge production within movements and deliberations about movement goals both nationally and in a transnational space.
Our work will explore national and transnational forms of environmental and climate activism in the Eu and beyond, e.g. in the European Neighbourhood region. We will study how different forms of EU integration are influencing (or not) social movements’ and civil society actor’s strategies directly or indirectly. Through the analysis of a variety of case studies, we will research environmental activism in illiberal contexts (e.g. Hungary); we sill discuss how social movements using civil disobedience challenge democratic procedures in particular in the field of energy transitions; we will compare how different emblematic actors of Climate Justice Movement frame their activism and formulate their imaginaries.
TraPoCo's Research
Each TraPoCo's partner will conduct its research strand resulting in the publication of scholarly and policy papers that will be published in leading journals in the various fields addressed by the research. Moreover, a final edited volume will be published at the end of the project (2023).
