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Les changements climatiques dans les médias québécois : une exploration de la responsabilité environnementale des citoyens sous la perspective de la criminologie verte

Authors: Jeffrey, Karolan;

Les changements climatiques dans les médias québécois : une exploration de la responsabilité environnementale des citoyens sous la perspective de la criminologie verte

Abstract

Si les individus ont certainement leur part de responsabilité à l'égard des changements climatiques, il apparaît, toutefois, que non seulement les citoyens canadiens ne sont pas bien informés quant à la problématique, mais qu'ils se sentent peu concernés par celle-ci. L'objectif de ce mémoire est de mieux comprendre cette contradiction. Pour ce faire, nous examinons comment les médias québécois construisent les changements climatiques en tant que problématique environnementale selon la perspective de la criminologie verte, où il est mis de l'avant que ce sont principalement des actes considérés comme légaux, commis à la fois par des individus, des entreprises ou des gouvernements, qui sont responsables des changements climatiques. Considérant que la façon dont les médias construisent les problématiques environnementales a un effet non seulement sur la compréhension des citoyens vis-à-vis de celles-ci mais aussi, et surtout, sur la perception qu'ils peuvent avoir de leur propre relation vis-à-vis de l'environnement, nous cherchons plus spécifiquement à explorer comment l'information présentée par les médias peut influencer la perception qu'ont les citoyens québécois de leur propre responsabilité environnementale. Cette étude se base sur l'analyse qualitative du contenu de 100 articles publiés sur une période d'un mois, soit du 23 novembre au 19 décembre 2015, et issus de huit périodiques québécois. Les résultats montrent que les médias offrent une couverture incomplète et non scientifique des changements climatiques. Le constat de l'analyse est que les médias ne présentent pas les changements climatiques comme étant, notamment, une problématique environnementale, mais ils les présentent plutôt comme étant une menace à laquelle il appartient spécifiquement aux gouvernements de répondre. Conséquemment, les médias ignorent complètement la responsabilité des indidivus quant aux changements climatiques et, de ce fait, contribuent probablement au désengagement de ceux-ci vis-à-vis de leur responsabilité environnementale. Finalement, à la lumière des informations recensées par la revue de littérature et des résultats de recherche obtenus, nous examinerons les implications scientifiques de ce mémoire. Il sera soulevé qu'une criminologie verte pertinente à l'étude des changements climatiques doit nécessairement questionner le rapport d'inégalité entre l'humain, l'environnement et les espèces non-humaines, où l'humain prône un rapport d'exploitation vis-à-vis de ces deux derniers.

If individuals have their share of responsibility regarding climate change, it appears, however, that not only Canadian citizens are not well informed about the issue, but that they also do not feel quite concerned about it. The purpose of this thesis is to better understand this contradiction. To do so, we analyze the way media frames climate change as an environmental issue from the green criminology point of view, in which it is pointed out that climate change is mostly caused by legal harms, whether they are committed by individuals, businesses or governments. Regarding the fact that the way media frames environmental issues has an effect on how individuals understand these issues and on how they perceive their own relationship with the environment, this study seeks to specifically explore how the information presented by the media could influence Quebecers' perception of their individual environmental responsibility. This study is based on a qualitative content analysis of 100 articles drawn within the period of a month, between November 23rd and December 19th of the year 2015, from eight newspapers published in the province of Quebec. The results show that the media coverage of climate change is incomplete and not very scientific. This thesis highlights the fact that the media does not present climate change as an environmental issue, caused by legal harms, but rather as a security issue that can only truly be adressed by governments. Consequently, the media ignores the individual environmental responsibility regarding climate change and, thereby, probably contributes to the citizens' disengagement. Finally, in light of this study's literature review and results, we will explore the potential repercussions of this thesis. It will be pointed out that a green criminology relevant to the study of climate change must necessarily challenge the unequal relationship between humans, environment and non-humans, in which humans exploit the two others.

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Responsabilité individuelle, Médias, Individual responsability, Crimes et dommages contre l'environnement, Global warming, Changements climatiques, Environmental crimes and harms, Criminologie verte, Analyse de contenu, Climate change, Media coverage, Réchauffement global, Green criminology, Content analysis

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