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Climate, Inequality, and Democratic Action: The Force of Political Emotions

Project description

Citizen engagement with climate change issues

Evidence suggests that emotions play a fundamental role in political participation and communication. It is therefore crucial to comprehend and appropriately address citizens’ emotional needs and reactions to climate policies to achieve coordinated democratic action. The EU-funded CIDAPE project will research the interplay between citizen engagement, climate change and inequalities. By investigating the role of emotions in shaping rational argumentation and engagement, the project aims to gain insights into how people comprehend, and actively respond to, climate change challenges. CIDAPE reveals political action mechanisms and puts forth tools, policy instruments and guides. It underscores the climate crisis as a unique opportunity to foster solidarity and achieve depolarisation in the public debate, emphasising the importance of public trust, robust institutions and policies that resonate with citizens.

Objective

CIDAPE is a groundbreaking project at the forefront of research on the complex interplay between citizen engagement, climate change, and social and economic inequalities. At its core lies the recognition that emotions play a fundamental role in political participation and communication. Understanding and responding to citizens' emotional (re)actions - as set up by CIDAPE's inquiry - are essential to achieving coordinated, democratic action.

With a focus on the perceived and articulated emotions around climate and inequality, CIDAPE proposes a comprehensive, multi-methods approach and multidisciplinary analysis of the force of political emotions in European politics of climate change. The project's WPs delve into emotions in the political sphere, media, everyday life, global-local entanglements, social movements, and citizen engagement showing how emotions shape people's rational argumentation, engagement, and ultimately, who and what they care about.

CIDAPE seeks to uncover the core mechanisms and processes at the heart of political action - at the policy, polity, and politics levels - and proposes participatory tools, policy instruments, and methodological guides to address these challenges. The project emphasizes that the climate crisis provides a unique opportunity to unite citizens across the political spectrum and that the success of coordinated democratic action will require high levels of public trust, strong institutions, and policies that resonate with citizens' political emotions. the Consortium assembles experienced researchers from political science, sociology, linguistics, communication science, and international relations, and distinguished representatives from civil society across nine European countries. It has a strong dissemination strategy, aiming at diverse citizen groups at local, national, and supranational levels of democratic engagement.

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01

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Coordinator

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
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€ 754 330,00
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UNIVERSITATSRING 1
1010 Wien
Austria

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Ostösterreich Wien Wien
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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€ 754 330,00

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