Belfer Ella, Ford James D, Maillet Michelle
1McGill University, Montreal, QC Canada.
2Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Clim Change. 2017;145(1):57-70. doi: 10.1007/s10584-017-2076-z. Epub 2017 Oct 3.
This article examines how newspapers reporting on climate change have covered and framed Indigenous peoples. Focusing on eight newspapers in Canada, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand, we examine articles published from 1995 to 2015, and analyze them using content and framing analyses. The impacts of climate change are portrayed as having severe ecological, sociocultural, and health/safety impacts for Indigenous peoples, who are often framed as victims and "harbingers" of climate change. There is a strong focus on stories reporting on the Arctic. The lack of substantive discussion of colonialism or marginalization in the reviewed stories limits media portrayal of the structural roots of vulnerability, rendering climate change as a problem , rather than society. Indigenous and traditional knowledge is widely discussed, but principally as a means of corroborating scientific knowledge, or in accordance with romanticized portrayals of Indigenous peoples. Widespread disparities in the volume, content, and framing of coverage are also observed across the four nations.
本文探讨了报道气候变化的报纸如何报道和构建原住民形象。以加拿大、美国、澳大利亚和新西兰的八家报纸为重点，我们研究了1995年至2015年发表的文章，并运用内容分析和框架分析方法对其进行分析。气候变化的影响被描绘为对原住民有着严重的生态、社会文化以及健康/安全影响，原住民常被构建为气候变化的受害者和“预兆者”。报道强烈聚焦于北极地区的故事。在所审查的报道中，对殖民主义或边缘化缺乏实质性讨论，这限制了媒体对脆弱性结构根源的描绘，将气候变化呈现为一个问题，而非社会问题。原住民和传统知识得到了广泛讨论，但主要是作为佐证科学知识的手段，或者是按照对原住民的浪漫化描绘来讨论。在这四个国家中，报道的数量、内容和框架也存在广泛差异。
