ABSTRACT
In our own process of social construction, we are ordering our interpretations of this book by creating categories (much like Paterson and Stripple discuss in the introduction to Chapter 6). As such, we have constructed several perspectives, or rather drawn out what we deem to be important for the reader. The primary goal of this book is to begin the process of understanding climate change politics through the lens of constructivism. In the introduction we noted that powerful actors, norms and discourses have profoundly shaped the process of climate change politics. We turn now to identifying these actors and their roles, and the processes in which dominant
norms and discourses, as well as new voices, emerge. We assume, as constructivism does, that change is possible (and potentially inevitable), and that these alternative voices may become more prominent, or perhaps absorbed into the prevailing norms, discourses and policies in the future.
