Mobilizations and climate change: the case of Observatório do Clima coalition

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the Observatório do Clima network in the light of the categories advocacy coalition, specifically broker. A conceptual-methodological framework was mobilized based on the theoretical frameworks of the sociology of critical utopia on the climate issue and studies of socio-state interactions. Critical interpretive analysis was used as a methodological strategy. The result is the proposal of a new category, metacoalition, and two complementary roles, producer (of knowledge) and monitor (of public policies), to Gurza Lavalle and von Bülow’s (2014, 2015) conceptual framework. In addition, a new agent is introduced to the analytical scenario as a structuring configuration element of the new two roles: the artificial climate agent.

Keywords
Climate mobilization; Climate change policies; Coalition; Intermediary; Meta-coalition