Discourse analysis of environmental policy revisited: traditions, trends, perspectives. Issue 5 (3rd September 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Discourse analysis of environmental policy revisited: traditions, trends, perspectives. Issue 5 (3rd September 2019)
- Main Title:
- Discourse analysis of environmental policy revisited: traditions, trends, perspectives
- Authors:
- Leipold, Sina
Feindt, Peter H.
Winkel, Georg
Keller, Reiner - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Since the mid-1990s, discourse analysis has become an increasingly established framework in environmental policy analysis. The field has diversified in terms of conceptual approaches, methods, topics, and geographies. This special issue revisits trends and traditions regarding theoretical and methodological approaches, 'old' and 'new' discourses, and our knowledge about discursive effects. We contextualize and discuss the twelve contributions to this special issue against the broader trajectory of the field over the past 25 years. Our analysis reveals an abundance of theoretical approaches with limited cross-fertilization, a plethora of rich case studies but few attempts at meta-analysis, and subtle accounts of discursive effects on discourse, policy and practice without an overarching framework. We suggest seven directions for the field's future evolution: a need for more comparative and multiple-case studies, theoretical cross-fertilization, pro-active integration of non-English-speaking research contexts, development of methodological capabilities to capture discursive developments across larger numbers of publics and policy arenas, a more explicit conceptualization of agency, power and materiality, a stronger collaboration with transdisciplinary approaches, and a reflexive engagement with the 'critical' ambition of discourse analysis.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of environmental policy and planning. Volume 21:Issue 5(2019)
- Journal:
- Journal of environmental policy and planning
- Issue:
- Volume 21:Issue 5(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 21, Issue 5 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0021-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 445
- Page End:
- 463
- Publication Date:
- 2019-09-03
- Subjects:
- Discourse analysis -- discourse theory -- environmental policy -- policy analysis -- discursive effects -- policy change
Environmental policy -- Europe -- Periodicals
Environmental policy -- Periodicals
Electronic journals
333.7 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjoe20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/1523908X.2019.1660462 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1523-908X
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