Adapting to climate change: Emotions and narratives in the environmental movement

The extreme heat wave in the summer of 2018 showed that climate catastrophe is already here, and was accompanied by a sense that the extreme is becoming the new normal. Reflecting this development, parts of the environmental movement has seen a shift from mobilizing to avert climate catastrophe towards a focus on how to live with it. . The project explores the meaning making and emotional processes that orient this type of environmental activism. This will be done in two case studies: the Swedish Transition Towns Movement and the Dark Mountain Project. Both articulate narratives about ongoing/inevitable climate change but they do so throug hdifferent emotions. Analysing movement texts, in-depth interviews with activists and participant observations at movement events, we study the movements’ 1) narratives about climate change etc