Framing sustainability and climate change: Interrogating discourses in vernacular and English-language media in Sundarbans, India

Ghosh, Aditya; Boykoff, Maxwell

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.11.014

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“…), so tourism mainly produced profits for large corporations, making little contribution to local area development. Since the new estimate about the tiger numbers, however, the discourse about the Sundarbans has shifted from local underdevelopment to that of the wildlife conservation (Ghosh and Boykoff 2018). This discourse, dominant in the public domain and sphere, remained oblivious to the fact that poverty and underdevelopment were two key reasons behind illegal access to the forest commons or dependence on forest and riparian commons.…”

Section: Who Conserves Better? Scientific Forest Management or Local Communities?mentioning

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Falling “fortresses”: Unlocking Governance Entanglements and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms to Counter Climate Change Threats in Biodiversity Conservation

Ghosh

Sen

Dutta

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Environmental Management

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Biodiversity conservation is facing unprecedented challenges at the intersection of rapidly changing climates, widespread ecosystem degradation under the influence of global warming and resultant human tragedies over livelihood, habitation, adaptation and coping needs. These challenges are more acute across biodiversity hotspots in the Global South. This study disentangles the complex interplay to propose alternative paradigms of governance and policy thinking necessary for sustainable biodiversity conservation. Climate change impacts are exposing critical deficiencies of 'scientific forest management' pursued for over a century. For example, recurrent disasters and ecological shifts are increasingly obfuscating cognitive and physical boundaries between the reserve forest and human habitations; putting additional stress on livelihoods which in turn escalate pressures on the forest commons and fuel further conflicts between conservation governance and local communities. Instead of assisting in adaptation, the existing conservation governance mechanisms are producing further conflicts between humans and non-humans; livelihoods and conservation; disaster management and development. Conducted in the Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve -world's largest mangrove forest ecosystem and a climate change hotspot located along the Bay of Bengal across India and Bangladesh -the study finds an urgent need of rethinking and recalibrating biodiversity conservation in the times of climate change. However, institutional and market-based approaches such as promoting ecotourism or mangrove plantations may have little impact in this regard, the study finds. Instead, integrating cultural ecosystem services and co-producing knowledge will be critical to tackle the entanglements of climate change and its impacts on local lives, livelihoods and biodiversity conservation.

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Falling “fortresses”: Unlocking Governance Entanglements and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms to Counter Climate Change Threats in Biodiversity Conservation

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Dutta

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Environmental Management

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“…Thus, Hindi media content may be more region‐specific even when reported in a national newspaper. By examining not only what is present but also what is absent or silenced in different language media, such regional language media analyses may reveal marginalization,ay provide insights into locally important issues and their interaction with issues in the national or global discourse found in the English media,or may reveal linguistic limitations in conveying technical topics (Ghosh and Boykoff, ; Neyazi, ). Variation in coverage may influence composition of policy narratives, and diverging foci of coverage may influence frequency of narrative elements.…”

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Policy Narratives across Two Languages: A Comparative Study using the Narrative Policy Framework

Huda

2019

Review of Policy Research

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The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) focuses on the role of narratives, drawing from a rich scholarship in narrative, language, and culture. Despite the understanding that narratives are constructions of language and that narrative construction differs across languages, NPF studies have not focused on policy narratives in languages other than English. Language characteristics of narratives are important to assess the stability of policy narratives when there are multiple dominant languages in a political system. This study investigates the use of narrative elements in policy narratives in agricultural biotechnology policy in India across Hindi and English media coverage to examine the NPF assumption that narratives have generalizable narrative elements irrespective of variation in linguistic context and, specifically, tests the transportability of narrative elements. Findings validate the transportability of narrative elements in Hindi narratives, indicate variation in the use of narrative elements over time, and have implications for applying NPF across languages.

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“…The media plays a significant role in shaping and constructing public discourses by reflecting on various concepts, opinions, and ideologies [ 1 ]. Castells [ 2 ], (p. 316) for instance, argues that visibility in the media is essential in transforming environmental sustainability "from a condition into a public problem and then into a policy concern."…”

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“…This has inspired the current research examining the meaning found in negotiations taking place within Saudi discursive practices. Promoting public awareness of sustainability’s diverse components has always been necessary to localize such efforts efficiently, which is especially critical in developing countries [ 1 , 22 ]. Castells [ 2 ] (p. 316) highlights how discursive practices (e.g., news discourse) transform sustainability from a “condition to a public issue to a policy concern.” Recently, Saudi policymakers have intensively addressed sustainability.…”

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Environmental sustainability in the online media discourses of Saudi Arabia: A corpus-based study of keyness, intertextuality, and interdiscursivity

Almaghlouth

2022

PLoS ONE

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This paper investigates the online discourses on “sustainability” and explores how environmental sustainability has been constructed within the Saudi online discourse. In doing so, the study focuses on the potential of the Saudi Green Initiative (SGI), along with Green Riyadh and King Salman Park, to promote sustainability awareness in the kingdom. The corpus of the study comprises news articles and Twitter hashtags. In addition, the study uses corpus-based discourse analysis to examine the keyness and intertextuality. The results of the study convey a contextualized national identity while communicating internationally within discursive circles. It is also identified that interdiscursivity is central in the corpus, although the discourse of action especially dominated other smaller discourses, such as consequences/risks, economy, and tourism. The results also indicate the prominent construction of officials, which could be linked to the dynamics of change in the Saudi scene. Finally, the study emphasizes the action-oriented nature of such discourse while drawing attention to some of the challenging issues to long-term advocacy in the country.

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Framing sustainability and climate change: Interrogating discourses in vernacular and English-language media in Sundarbans, India

Cited by 16 publications

References 54 publications

Falling “fortresses”: Unlocking Governance Entanglements and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms to Counter Climate Change Threats in Biodiversity Conservation

Falling “fortresses”: Unlocking Governance Entanglements and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms to Counter Climate Change Threats in Biodiversity Conservation

Policy Narratives across Two Languages: A Comparative Study using the Narrative Policy Framework

Environmental sustainability in the online media discourses of Saudi Arabia: A corpus-based study of keyness, intertextuality, and interdiscursivity

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