Grassroots involvement on Global South policy narratives and deliberative action on climate change loss and damage

Noe John Sacramento

Public Administration and Policy: An Asia-Pacific Journal, 2023, vol. 26, issue 2, 156-168

Abstract: Purpose - This paper investigates how power and narratives among actors relate to the process of agenda-setting and deliberation in the context of climate change loss and damage. The focus is to understand how grassroots voices manifest their concerns on intensifying economic and non-economic impacts of climate change loss and damage which affect them. Design/methodology/approach - This paper is based on the case of the Southeast Asia climate change loss and damage workshop in Bohol, Philippines in August 2022. It utilizes lesson drawing as a critical approach by thematic analysis in making sense of the data gathered from the perspectives of participant observers and facilitators. Findings - There are different levels of power and dominant narratives actors in a deliberative process propel in taking a stance over a particular issue towards agenda-setting and policy framing. The power and narratives help actors to maintain and emphasize their position, exercise authority, and to some point, suppress weak voices. Narratives associated with emotions, sentiments, ideologies, and value systems of the grassroots, community leaders, and climate justice movements tend to be devalued by those in a high level of power and authority. Originality/value - Techno-authoritarian domination explicitly hampers a genuine grassroots involvement in the policy process, especially towards agenda-setting of immediate concerns about climate change loss and damage which affect the public. Critiquing actors’ power and narratives are productive in identifying and propagating the type of deliberative spaces that speak truth to power.

Keywords: Climate change; Deliberative action; Grassroots involvement; Loss and damage; Policy narratives; Global South (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1108/PAP-12-2022-0146

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