Realizing the right to be cold? Framing processes and outcomes associated with the Inuit petition on human rights and global warming

Sébastien Jodoin, Shannon Snow and Arielle Corobow

Chapter 21 in Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change, 2023, pp 314-328 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Our article provides an in-depth analysis of the framing processes and outcomes associated with a 2005 petition by Inuit communities in the arctic before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights on the human rights violations caused by climate change. Drawing on semi-structured interviews in two Inuit communities in Canada with ties to the petition and with lawyers and activists in the transnational climate justice movement, we process-trace the role that the petition has played in promoting discursive and collective action frames related to the recognition of the “right to be cold.” We argue that the Inuit petition articulated a novel “climate rights” frame through an innovative combination of legal argumentation, scientific research, and the oral testimony of Inuit communities concerning the ways in which climate impacts were affecting their human rights and traditional practices. Our findings reveal that the resonance of this frame has varied significantly among different actors, influencing the ideas and strategies of climate activists and lawyers around the world, but having limited resonance among policymakers in the United States or Canada or among Inuit communities themselves.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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