Climate Change Challenges: Workshop Prague-Constance (Konstanz) Study Days on Various Aspects of Society, Politics, and Policy in the Digital Age - JSB157

• Title: Workshop Prague-Constance (Konstanz) Study Days
• Guaranteed by: Department of Public and Social Policy (23-KVSP)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023 to 2023
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 7
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HS]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (3)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: JSM257
• Additional information: http://office hours: http://terms.fsv.cuni.cz
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Vilém Novotný, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Vilém Novotný, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Vilém Novotný, Ph.D. (05.02.2024)

The climate change and sustainability represent essential challenges for our society and policy-making. The project-oriented workshop is designed to get students acquainted with climate change challenges from perspectives of society (e.g., new social movements, online collective action) and climate change policy at different levels (e.g., climate change policy issues on regional, national, and European level reflected by the Internet and new social media. It provides an excellent opportunity to gain an international academic experience. The workshop aims at developing international academic cooperation between national communities and at enhancing students’ team work and international communication skills in academic area. It is also appreciated as an excellent preparatory experience for your own study abroad (e.g., Erasmus+ etc.).
The workshop takes place in Prague and Konstanz and it is accompanied by an informal program which enables Prague students to discover beauties of the Lake Constance region (Konstanz, Mainau, Reichenau, Meersburg, Friedrichshafen) and life of Konstanz students.

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. Vilém Novotný, Ph.D. (05.02.2024)

Assignments and Grading

The credits will be granted after fulfilling following conditions (plagiarism and other misconducts against academic and/or good manners will prevent passing the course):

1) attendance (100 %)

2) 3 questions to 3 choosen before the Prague week                   9 points

3) active participation in discussions                                          10 points

4) Prague presentation of the team’s topic                                 10 points

5) Konstanz presentation of the team seminar paper draft                    10 points

6) Team seminar paper – replication of a case study (15-20 pages = 27.000-36.000 signs with blanks)

it means cca 7-10 pages per a team member                              61 points

Total                                                                            100 points

 

Grading Scale (max. 100 points)

A       91-100 points

B       81-90 points

C        71-80 points

D       61-70 points

E        51-60 points

F        till 50 points

 

Important dates:

February 26, 2024, 12.30-13.50 – introductory session (online)

till March 15, 2024 – deadline for a draft of the Prague presentation + 3 questions to 3 choosen texts

March 17-22, 2024 – Prague week

till April 26, 2024 – deadline for the 1st short report on team seminar work progress

till May 31, 2024 – deadline for a for the 2^nd short report on team seminar work progress

till June 21, 2024 – deadline for a for a draft of the Konstanz presentation + the 1^st draft of the paper

June 23-29, 2024 – Konstanz week

July 31, 2024 – deadline for the final version of team seminar papers

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Vilém Novotný, Ph.D. (24.02.2024)

Basic issue reference

The European Green Deal (https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en)

 

Social perspective

Hautea, S., Parks, P., Takahashi, B., & Zeng, J. (2021). Showing They Care (Or Don’t): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok. Social Media + Society, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211012344

 

Roger Soler-i-Martí, Ariadna Fernández-Planells & Laura Pérez-Altable (2022) Bringing the future into the present: the notion of emergency in the youth climate movement, Social Movement Studies, 1-20, DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2022.2123312

 

Simone Rödder and Christopher Niklas Pavenstädt (2023): ‘Unite behind the Science!’ Climate movements’ use of scientific evidence in narratives on socio-ecological future, Science and Public Policy, 50, 30–41, doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scac046

 

Further inspirations:

Poell, T., & Dijck, J. (2018). Social media and new protest movements. In J. Burgessa. Marwick, & T. Poell The sage handbook of social media (pp. 546-561). SAGE Publications Ltd, https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781473984066.n31

 

Danielle Falzon, J. Timmons Roberts, and Robert J. Brulle (2021): Sociology and Climate Change: A Review and Research Agenda, in: Schaefer CAniglia et al (eds.): Handbook of Environmental Sociology, Springer Cham, pp 189-217, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77712-8.

 

Chen, K., Molder, A. L., Duan, Z., Boulianne, S., Eckart, C., Mallari, P., & Yang, D. (2022). How Climate Movement Actors and News Media Frame Climate Change and Strike: Evidence from Analyzing Twitter and News Media Discourse from 2018 to 2021. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612221106405

 

Carla Malafaia & Taina Meriluoto (2022) Making a deal with the devil? Portuguese and Finnish activists’ everyday negotiations on the value of social media, Social Movement Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2022.2070737

 

Von Zabern, Lena and Christopher D. Tulloch. (2021): Rebel with a cause: the framing of climate

change and intergenerational justice in the German press treatment of the Fridays for

Future protests. Media Culture & Society: 23-47.

 

Sonnett, John (2022) Climate change risks and global warming dangers: a field analysis of online US news media, Environmental Sociology, 8:1, 41-51, DOI: 10.1080/23251042.2021.1960098

 

 

Policy perspective:

Bailey, K. S., Yi, H., Heikkila, T., & Weible, C. M. (2023). Policy conflicts in shale development in China and the United States. Review of Policy Research,  40, 589–605. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12534

 

Domorenok, E., & Graziano, P. (2023). Understanding the European Green Deal: A narrative policy framework approach. European Policy Analysis, 9, 9–29. https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1168

 

Abrahams, D.  (2019) From discourse to policy: US policy communities’ perceptions of and approaches to climate change and security, Conflict, Security & Development, 19:4, 323 345, DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2019.1637080

 

 

Further inspirations:

Weible, C.M., Heikkila, T. (2017). Policy Conflict Framework. Policy Sci 50, 23–40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-017-9280-6

 

.Jones, M. D., Smith-Walter, A., McBeth M. K. & Shanahan, E. A.(2023). The Narrative Policy Framework In C. M. Weible (Ed.), Theories of the Policy Process (5th ed., pp. 161-195). New York, NY: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003308201-7

 

Lamb, W., Mattioli, G., Levi, S., Roberts, J., Capstick, S., Creutzig, F., . . . Steinberger, J. (2020). Discourses of climate delay. Global Sustainability, 3, E17. doi:10.1017/sus.2020.13
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/discourses-of-climate-delay/7B11B722E3E3454BB6212378E32985A7?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=wechat&utm_source=im

 

 

Some good methodological remarks:

Wilson, S., & Herrera, Y. (2019). Teaching Computerized Content Analysis for Undergraduate Research Papers. PS: Political Science & Politics, 52(3), 536-542. doi:10.1017/S104909651900026X

Other literature can be recommended according to specific interest by teachers.

Teaching methods

Last update: PhDr. Vilém Novotný, Ph.D. (05.02.2024)

The course takes place in seminar blocks with the Introductory session (January 26, 12.30-13.50, online Zoom) at the beginning of the summer semester, preparatory work in PRG-KN teams, in two teaching weeks (Prague March 17-22 and Konstanz June 23-29).

 

Hour requirements for students (1 ECTS = 30h):

Workshop attendance                                                    18h

Self-study + questions to 3 theoretical texts                      10h

Prague presentation + team work                                    16h

Konstanz presentation of the seminar paper draft + team work    16h

Field research + team work – replication of a case study              60h

Part of the seminar paper (cca 7-10 pages) + team work              60h

Total                                                                   180h

Entry requirements

Last update: PhDr. Vilém Novotný, Ph.D. (05.02.2024)

This workshop is primarily open to all MA students of the ISS UK FSV who are interested in this kind of experience.

The number of the participants is limited to 6 students.

In case of more than 6 applicants, the interest of participants will by verified by a short motivation letter (max. 2 paragraphs, cca 1/2 page send to vnovotny[at]fsv.cuni.cz) which will serve as the base for the choice of participants on criteria of their motivation, further foreign mobility potential, command of English; command of German as an advantage.

Working language is English.

Registration requirements

Last update: PhDr. Vilém Novotný, Ph.D. (05.02.2024)

This workshop is primarily open to all MA students of the ISS UK FSV who are interested in this kind of experience.

The number of the participants is limited to 6 students.

In case of more than 6 applicants, the interest of participants will by verified by a short motivation letter (max. 2 paragraphs, cca 1/2 page send to vnovotny[at]fsv.cuni.cz) which will serve as the base for the choice of participants on criteria of their motivation, further foreign mobility potential, command of English; command of German as an advantage.

Working language is English.