Narrative roles of citizens in the climate “battle”: French survey of people’s opinions on possibilities for and obstacles to climate action

Narrative roles of citizens in the climate “battle”: French survey of people’s opinions on possibilities for and obstacles to climate action Abstract: Climate change challenges appear more and more clearly, and citizens in different parts of the world are hit in various ways. The main efforts aiming to mitigate the consequences of climate change should be undertaken at national and regional levels, but support by the citizens is also necessary. The present contribution will focus on a survey carried out in France, asking the participants what are, according to them, the obstacles to manage and the solutions to favour mitigation of climate change. A short overview through a content analysis of 1000 collected answers (mini-narratives) will be presented first, and second, a linguistic analysis exploring what narrative roles the citizens attribute to themselves and how and to what extent they express their own points of view.