More Than Skepticism: Climate Change Discourses through an Economic Perspective in Czech Newspapers

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Nalezeny alternativní kódy

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=a.bgB96KJc" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=a.bgB96KJc</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32422/cjir.916" target="_blank" >10.32422/cjir.916</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

More Than Skepticism: Climate Change Discourses through an Economic Perspective in Czech Newspapers

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Central and East European states are believed to endorse climate skepticism in both their public discourse and their population attitudes. In this paper we focus on the climate change discourse from an economic perspective in Czechia and show that the situation is more complex than expected. Specifically, the paper analyses Czech mainstream (Ekonom, MF Dnes) and alternative media (Deník Referendum) and concludes that the discursive strands of (1) adaptation and (2) climate change as an opportunity for business are prevalent in the media mainstream. In contrast, the strand of (3) mitigation appears more in the alternative media. We apply the concept of (de)politicization to analytically capture an important aspect contributing to the differentiation of these strands. The analyzed sample suggests that the Czech economic discourse on climate change is neither dominated by skepticism nor polarized along the axis of climate denial versus climate alarmism. Here lies our contribution: our findings challenge the expectation of the dominance of climate skepticism and denialism and position Czechia closer to the discursive landscape of established democracies, where media contribute to the pluralistic nature of the climate change debate.

Název v anglickém jazyce

More Than Skepticism: Climate Change Discourses through an Economic Perspective in Czech Newspapers

Popis výsledku anglicky

Central and East European states are believed to endorse climate skepticism in both their public discourse and their population attitudes. In this paper we focus on the climate change discourse from an economic perspective in Czechia and show that the situation is more complex than expected. Specifically, the paper analyses Czech mainstream (Ekonom, MF Dnes) and alternative media (Deník Referendum) and concludes that the discursive strands of (1) adaptation and (2) climate change as an opportunity for business are prevalent in the media mainstream. In contrast, the strand of (3) mitigation appears more in the alternative media. We apply the concept of (de)politicization to analytically capture an important aspect contributing to the differentiation of these strands. The analyzed sample suggests that the Czech economic discourse on climate change is neither dominated by skepticism nor polarized along the axis of climate denial versus climate alarmism. Here lies our contribution: our findings challenge the expectation of the dominance of climate skepticism and denialism and position Czechia closer to the discursive landscape of established democracies, where media contribute to the pluralistic nature of the climate change debate.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA22-00800S" target="_blank" >GA22-00800S: Under Pressure: krize, emoce a politické transformace kolem změny klimatu</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Czech Journal of International Relations

ISSN

2788-2985

e-ISSN

2788-2993

Svazek periodika

60

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

31

Strana od-do

73-103

Kód UT WoS článku

001641985100003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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