ABSTRACT
Discourse-analytical research on climate change is not only fully justified, but badly needed. Proposing and deciding what this ‘wicked issue’ is about and what ought to be done about it involves discursive struggles between a range of social actors in science, politics, business, civil society and other domains. Values, world-views and ideologies, as well as multiple forms of power, are deeply interconnected with meaning-making practices on climate change. Discourse-minded academics thus have a responsibility to contribute to identifying, analysing and exposing the ways in which debates are often managed and distorted, and how that connects to issues of power and justice.
