Is Denmark a green entrepreneurial state? Mapping Danish climate politics between civic mobilization and business cooptation

Adam Veng*, Irina Papazu, Mads Ejsing

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

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Abstract

This article is based on digital methods research using the tools Hyphe, Gephi and CorText to map the relations between public Danish actors – from informal civil society groups and NGO’s to business and state actors - and their “matters of concern” (cf. Latour 2004) in the heated political situation around the development of green transition policies following the enactment of the Climate Act in 2019. The Act was, according to the newly elected social democratic government, the “most ambitious Climate Act in the world”. It included such political innovations as the Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change, a group of 99 randomly selected citizens mandated to give recommendations to parliament, and a series of Climate Partnerships, business and industry collaborations tasked with developing recommendations and frameworks for the business community’s engagement in the green transition. The Climate Act was passed after massive popular pressure from the civic climate movement leading up to the election. Despite these efforts and the apparent political will to engage with multiple voices and interests, our network mapping shows that the business community, with an emphasis on “innovative and technological solutions”, were soon to become dominant in the network and align themselves more closely with the political system than the civil society actors were able to with their repeated calls for more radical and political action on climate change.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftSTS Encounters - DASTS working paper series
Vol/bind15
Udgave nummer2
Antal sider25
ISSN1904-4372
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023

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