Unravelling the United Kingdom’s climate policy consensus: The power of ideas, discourse and institutions

Gillard, Ross

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.06.012

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“…One of discourse analysis' main contributions to environmental politics has been in deepening understandings of the power effects created by, and built into, discourse (Feindt & Oels, 2005). However, progress remains slower in providing clarity on how discursive processes translate into changes in institutional preferences and policy (Gillard, 2016a;Lorenzoni & Benson, 2014), and in counteracting the tendency for discourses analyses to critique existing power relations without directing similar energy towards exploring how language studies might also contribute towards addressing political disputes on issues like climate change (Breeze, 2011).…”

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“…The influence of discourse on political responses to environmental problems has long been debated by environmental politics scholars (Feindt & Oels, 2005). Dryzek (1997) and Hajer (1995), among others, first established the importance of discourse in environmental politics, but recent years has seen a wealth of studies examining linkages between discourse and policy change on issues such as climate change, energy policy, ozone-depleting substances, biodiversity, and water pollution (Christoff, 2013;Eckersley, 2016;Gillard, 2016aGillard, , 2016bHovden & Lindseth, 2004;Kurki, Takala, & Vinnari, 2016;Shin & Choi, 2014). In parallel, branches of the policy change literature also have a rich pedigree of investigating how policy change is enacted through ideas and language, including work on value frames, actor coalitions, actors' construction of their interests (Pemberton & Oliver, 2004;Sabatier & Jenkins-Smith, 1993), issue streams (Kingdon, 1995), and iterations between policy stability and change (Bailey & Wilson, 2009;Hall, 1993).…”

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“…Despite the contributions of these works to understanding the relationship between discourse and policy change, Gillard (2016a) argues that many analyses still treat ideas and discourse as ancillary influences on policy compared with power and interests, and only partially reveal how discursive processes alter institutional preferences and policy. Studies have utilised discursive institutionalism to explore how discourses affect actor strategies and normative alignments (Gillard, 2016a;Lorenzoni & Benson, 2014), but their authors still argue for greater attention to how ideas and discourse operate as distinctive forms of power. Another common criticism of discourse analysis is that they remain preoccupied with "exposing ideological manipulation that shapes and perpetuates power imbalances through discourse" and pay limited attention to how unequal power relations and unbalanced policies can be overcome (Breeze, 2011, p. 516).…”

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Changing the record: Narrative policy analysis and the politics of emissions trading in New Zealand

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“…The content analyses by McComas & Shanahan (1999), Dispensa & Brulle (2003); the frame analyses by Trumbo (1996), Weingart, Engels, & Pansgrau (2000, Carvalho & Burgess (2005), Carvalho (2007, Boykoff (2008); the discourse analyses by Dryzek (2005), Gillard (2016); the narrative analysis by Fløttum & Gjerstad (2017); the representation analyses by Boykoff (2008), Carvalho & Pereira (2008), Wodak & Meyer (2012); the metaphor analyses by Moser & Dilling (2007), Nerlich, Evans, & Koteyko (2011); the quantitative studies by Boykoff & Boykoff (2004), the corpus-assisted CDA studies by Caillaud, Kalampalikis, & Flick (2012), Grundmann & Krishnamurthy (2010), Wang (2009), to name but a few, have advanced our knowledge about the diversity in research approaches as well as the variety of issues related to climate change. However, to our best knowledge, there is hardly any research into how the ideologies about developed and developing countries' responsibilities for climate change are constructed in the media coverage of the international climate conferences.…”

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Representation(s) of Developed and Developing Countries in Newspapers’ Coverage of Climate Conferences: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Nhung¹

2017

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This study critically analysed how developed and developing countries were represented in The Independent and The New York Times' coverage of the Conferences of the Parties to the UNFCCC between 2004 and 2013. The method of analysis was a qualitative critical discourse analysis in accordance with Fairclough's (1989) framework with the support of corpus techniques.The research findings showed that there were distinct responsibilities for climate change ascribed to the developed and the developing countries. While the developed countries were represented as being reluctant and indifferent towards their responsibility, the developing countries tended to depend on the developed countries' support in solving their climate-related problems. During the study period, therefore, no consensus could be reached on a common framework for climate change. The linguistic features of lexical choice, passivisation, nominalisation, modality and metaphor were found ideologically employed in the newspapers' representations of the countries. Additionally, the ideologies and their linguistic manifestations were influenced by the media's discursive practices and the wider social context.

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“…Climate change, however, differs from land use changes in that climate change is a highly politicised monolithic issue which is routinely debated in the public discourse and has implications for all people across local to international scales (Bakaki and Bernauer 2017;Gillard 2016;Kemp 2017;Mildenberger et al 2016). In contrast, land use changes are often distinct and localised issues, such as the conversion of undeveloped land to farmland, and while many land use changes become politicised, land use changes generally do not affect all people.…”

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The social identity approach to understanding stakeholder conflict in environmental and natural resources management

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Conflict between stakeholders about environmental and natural resources management (ENRM) issues is a significant challenge for achieving sustainable outcomes for people and the environment.Although conflict can be a constructive and important part of deliberative processes, ENRM routinely experiences dysfunctional conflict, where people involved focus on their perceived incompatibilities rather than finding solutions for the problem. This form of dysfunctional conflict leads to decision-making stagnation and exacerbation of issues which require timely management.The self-perpetuating nature of conflict means that relationships between people and groups become strained, and the potential for cooperation and compromise is undermined. In ENRM, conflict is addressed, often implicitly, through the practice of stakeholder engagement. Although advancements have been made on stakeholder engagement processes through both research and practice, conflict continues to manifest in ENRM issues.This thesis investigates ENRM conflict through analysing the contribution of ENRM stakeholder engagement practice to the prevalence of dysfunctional conflict. In order to understand the hidden complexities and drivers of conflict, the social identity approach has been applied as a theoretical lens. The social identity approach is a theoretical perspective from social psychology which explains how people become members of groups, and how groups interact. As such it is well suited to a study of ENRM conflict, where the heart of the conflict is how groups of people -stakeholders -interact with each other.First, the thesis outlines the theoretical basis for the interest in ENRM conflict, and makes a case for both why stakeholder engagement processes are a critical aspect of conflict which are worthy of investigation, and why the social identity approach is a useful theoretical lens. Following this, a theory building approach to integration of the literature across disciplines is used to present a way of understanding the human dimension of ENRM conflict, and the argument is made for the use of the social identity approach. As a result, a clear distinction is made between 'stakeholders' and 'the citizenry', where stakeholders are formalised groups with a defined interest, and the citizenry is everyone else. An integrative conceptual model for ENRM conflict is created, and is analysed with the application of the social identity approach.Next, the thesis examines the processes taken by ENRM practitioners to identify stakeholders, thereby filling a recognised gap in the literature. This is undertaken with the use of semi-structured interviews with experienced ENRM practitioners, analysed qualitatively. As a result, a typology of approaches to identification of stakeholders is presented, and the previously proposed distinction iii between stakeholders and the citizenry is shown to be reflective of how practitioners categorise people in the context of ENRM issues.The thesis then investigates a case study of a large-scale wind energy d...

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Unravelling the United Kingdom’s climate policy consensus: The power of ideas, discourse and institutions

Cited by 95 publications

References 26 publications

Changing the record: Narrative policy analysis and the politics of emissions trading in New Zealand

Changing the record: Narrative policy analysis and the politics of emissions trading in New Zealand

Representation(s) of Developed and Developing Countries in Newspapers’ Coverage of Climate Conferences: A Critical Discourse Analysis

The social identity approach to understanding stakeholder conflict in environmental and natural resources management

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