Constructing Climate Justice in Discourse: Australian Logic

Weiyi Lu

doi:10.71113/JCSIS.v2i5.202

Authors

Weiyi Lu School of Foreign Studies, China university of Mining and Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.71113/JCSIS.v2i5.202

Keywords:

Climate Justice, Australia, Discourse Study, Frame Analysis

Abstract

This study aims to find out Australian government’s logic on climate justice discourse. With Australia’s official speeches at the successive sessions of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the climate change-related policy and legal texts issued by the Australian federal government as the corpus, this study explores the logic of generation, organization and function of the discourse under the guidance of Fairclough’s idea. It is found that distributive justice, procedural justice and compensatory justice are the main dimensions of climate justice in the discourse. And they’re organized through judgement, recognition and action. They functions with political, economic and social spheres.

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