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"Klimatångest" i svenska medier: ett "tecken" i tiden
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8343-7424
Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8206-204x
2024 (Swedish)In: Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, ISSN 1102-7908, Vol. 33, p. 1-11Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Climate change and its effects on humans and animals and their living conditions are increasingly debated phenomena. As a result of climate change, the media emphasize that more and more people suffer from climate anxiety, which symptoms can range from mild to quite severe. In this paper, we focus on how climate anxiety is presented in the Swedish media. The purpose is to map and problematize how climate anxiety is represented by showing how this phenomenon is connected to certain ideas and descriptions. We also want to highlight the political consequences media representations of climate anxiety can have, and what they can tell us about contemporary Sweden. The survey is based on 346 articles available in the Retriver. se database. Climate anxiety was used as search term, and the search covered the time period 1 July 2022 to the end of December 2022. The findings show that climate anxiety is articulated in different and partly contradictory ways, at the same time as the material reproduces four contemporary cultural tendencies; medicalization, neoliberalism, therapy culture and individualization, which can be counterproductive with respect to both climate anxiety and climate measures in general. The fact that climate anxiety is primarily made into an individual problem may possibly work against the interest in a collective political commitment to the climate issue.

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Klimatförändringar och deras effekter på människor och djur och deras livsvillkor är allt mer omdiskuterade fenomen. En följd av klimatförändringarna som framhålls i medier är att allt fler människor drabbas av klimatångest, vars symptom kan vara allt ifrån lindriga till mer svårartade. I detta paper fokuserar vi på hur klimatångest framställs i svenska medier. Syftet är att kartlägga och problematisera hur klimatångest representeras genom att visa vilka föreställningar och beskrivningar som detta fenomen kopplas samman med. Vi vill även belysa vilka politiska konsekvenser medierepresentationer av klimatångest kan få och vad de speglar för centrala kännetecken på ett samtida Sverige. Undersökningen bygger på 346 artiklar tillgängliga i databasen Retriver.se. Som sökord användes klimatångest och sökningen täckte tidsperioden 1 juli 2022 till sista december 2022. Resultaten visar att klimatångest artikuleras på skilda och delvis motstridiga sätt, samtidigt som materialet reproducerar fyra samtida strömningar; medikalisering, nyliberalism, terapikultur och individualisering, vilka kan fungera kontraproduktivt med avseende på både klimatångest och klimatomställning generellt. Att klimatångest främst görs till ett individuellt problem kan eventuellt motverka intresset för ett kollektivt politiskt engagemang i klimatfrågan.

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Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur , 2024. Vol. 33, p. 1-11
Keywords [en]
climate anxiety, media, medicalization, neoliberalism, therapy culture, individualization
Keywords [sv]
klimatångest, medier, medikalisering, nyliberalism, terapikultur, individualisering
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Ethnology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-233144DOI: 10.54807/kp.v33.18319OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-233144DiVA, id: diva2:1923308
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Swedish Research Council Formas, 2022-01841Available from: 2024-12-21 Created: 2024-12-21 Last updated: 2025-01-02Bibliographically approved

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