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Challenging the Green Growth Discourse : How Discursive Strategies of Degrowth Matter
Westerkamp, Emilia (2024) Challenging the Green Growth Discourse : How Discursive Strategies of Degrowth Matter.
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| Abstract: | Embedded in an EU political context, this research paper sets out to investigate how the politically dominant discourse on green growth might be challenged and which discursive strategies are used to enable it. Therefore, the analysis is conducted as a Critical Discourse Analysis based on speeches held at the Beyond Growth Conference 2023. At this conference different actors discussed ideas of moving beyond growth, among them scientists, climate activists and even Members of the European Parliament. The analysis assembles these actors as a Beyond Growth Coalition and asks which discursive strategies they pursue in challenging the hegemonic green growth discourse of the European Commission. To perform the analysis green growth is understood as widely accepted and hegemonic. Nevertheless, the discussion about alternatives such as degrowth is gaining momentum. To touch upon the dynamics of the discourse, discursive strategies are analyzed as tools for change. The analysis argues that particular strategies matter to all involved actors, whereas some actors contain special agency in certain strategies. Thereby, the analysis draws on the interdigitation of science, activism and politics in the context of the emerging degrowth discourse. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 89 political science |
| Programme: | Management Society and Technology BSc (56654) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/101669 |
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