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INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION GAZETTE
Volume 75, Issue 4, Pages 392-409Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1748048513482265
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Canada; climate change; identity politics; indigenous peoples; journalism; media studies; Sweden; traditional environmental knowledge (TEK); transnationalism; UN climate summits
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This article examines representations of indigenous peoples in Swedish and Canadian press coverage of the Copenhagen climate summit (COP15). It discusses tensions between the international character of UN summits and the often transnational character of indigenous peoples as well as the issue of climate change. It considers how conceptions of nature, culture and politics intersect in the coverage, and in what roles indigenous peoples appear. Building on theories concerning the representation of indigenous peoples, traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) and identity politics, the study combines content and framing analysis with discourse analysis of a small sample of articles about indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples are underrepresented in the coverage. When indigenous voices emerge they appear as victim-heroes and important intermediaries of urgency and spirituality. They also appear as intermediaries of de-nationalization, but they are misframed politically, recognized in terms of their culture rather than represented in terms of their status.
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