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Introduction to Sustainabilities

Why focus on discourses?

What is a discourse?

What is a discourse?

"[...] a shared way of apprahending the world. Embedded in language it enable those who subscribe to it to intrepret bits of information and put them together into coherent stories or accounts." (Dryzek, 1997)

What do discourses do?

  • Set boundaries for our thoughts and actions
  • Uphold and change power relations
  • Creates winners and loosers

Constructivism and realism

"Just because something is socially interpreted does not mean it is unreal. Climate is changing as a result of greenhouse gas emissions, pollution does cause illness, species do become extinct […] But people can make very different things of these phenomena […]" (Dryzek, 1997)

Classifying environmental discourses

Reformist

Radical

Problem solving

Prosaic

Survivalism

Green radicalism

Imaginative

Sustainability

(Dryzek, 1997)

Problem solving

Problem solving discourses

Problem solving discourses

  • Leave it to the experts
  • Leave it to the people
  • Leave it to the market

Sustainability

Sustainability discourses

Sustainability discourses

  • Social learning
  • Ecological modernisation

Survivalism

Characteristics of this discourse

Characteristics of this discourse

  • Limits to growth
  • Work within the boundaries of liberal-capitalism
  • Elites will solve the problem through control

Green radicalism

Radicalist discourses

Radicalist discourses

  • Green romanticism
  • Green rationalism

Dryzek's conclusion

  • Multiple discourses needed
  • An understanding of the liberal- capitalist political-economy necessary
  • Social learning and ecological democracy is the answer

Using discourse analysis

Survivalist

Green radicalism

Problem solving

Sustainability

Instrux for group work

Instrux for group work

1. Individually, analyse which of the environmental discourses you can find in your Q and A a day

2. In the group, discuss what you learned from the analysis

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