New perspectives on discourse and governmentality

McIlvenny, Paul; Klausen, Julia Zhukova; Lindegaard, Laura Bang

doi:10.1075/dapsac.66.01mci

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“…Med samskabelse positioneres borgeren således hverken som objekt for en offentlig myndighed eller kritisk modtager af offentlige serviceydelser, men som deltager i udformning eller udførelse af opgaver i et samarbejde med det offentlige. I en mere kritisk optik kan dette også forstås som en form for 'governmentalitet', hvor der ledes gennem borgeres egen selvledelse (Walters, 2012;McIlvenny et al, 2016), og som strategisk kommunikation målrettet borgere og kommunale medarbejdere.…”

Section: Samskabelse Og Grøn Omstillingunclassified

Samskabelse i grøn omstilling – nye roller og udfordringer for frontpersonalet

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Andersen

Gram-Hansen

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Forskning og forandring

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’Samskabelse’ er i de senere år blevet en strategisk tilgang for kommuner, som ønsker grøn omstilling i løsningen af opgaver i forbindelse med forsyning, affaldshåndtering osv. Samskabelse ses som et værktøj til at skabe adfærdsændringer hos borgerne samt en forstærket involvering af borgerne i det lokale demokrati. Samskabelsesstrategien kan imidlertid forekomme modsætningsfyldt: Borgerne skal frivilligt samarbejde med offentlige myndigheder om at udforme initiativer til ændret adfærd på områder, hvor borgerne almindeligvis oplever, at de har autonomi. Dette modsætningsfyldte forhold gør opgaven til en udfordring for frontpersonalet, som står med borgerkontakten. Artiklen præsenterer analyser af kommunikationen i et skandinavisk EU-finansieret projekt om ’samskabende grøn omstilling’ (SGO), hvor kommunalt frontpersonale i fire tilfælde (to i Danmark og to i Sverige) har arbejdet med samskabelse i deres lokalområde for at udvikle en fælles samskabelsesmetode til grøn omstilling. Vi har som klimakommunikationsforskere fulgt projektet og undervejs samarbejdet med frontpersonalet om metodeudviklingen. Vores analyse af deltagernes kommunikation viser, at kompetence til at lytte til borgerne samt tid til kollegial erfaringsudveksling er afgørende for frontpersonalets udvikling af kompetence til samskabelse. Derfor konkluderer vi, at såvel det politiske som det ledelsesmæssige niveau i kommunerne bør tilgodese disse elementer, når man vælger en samskabelsesstrategi i forbindelse med påvirkning af borgernes adfærd i forhold til den grønne omstilling.

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Samskabelse i grøn omstilling – nye roller og udfordringer for frontpersonalet

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Andersen

Gram-Hansen

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Forskning og forandring

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“…Sustainability approaches grounded in governmentality studies share the critique presented by Shove and others claiming that current governance initiatives are often based on the neoliberal responsibilisation of consumers. According to them, many sustainability and environmental initiatives seek to hold individuals responsible and mobilise them to police their own conduct (Evans et al 2017;also Lindegaard 2016;McIlvenny et al 2016;Rumpala 2011). The governmentality studies perspective calls for the analysis of the empirical forms that mobilising consumers takes in different sociocultural settings (Lindegaard 2016, p. 100;McIlvenny et al 2016, p. 29;Miller and Rose 2008, pp.…”

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“…Finally, I reflect on the practical implications of media discourse discussing if and how the media discourse can contribute to transforming practices in a more sustainable direction and lead to food waste reduction. The chapter contributes to the scholarly discussion on food waste reduction deriving from governmentality studies (McIlvenny et al 2016;Miller and Rose 2008) and other critical (e.g. practice theoretical) approaches to governance initiatives promoting behavioural change among (individual) consumers (see Evans et al 2017;Gille 2013;Podkalicka 2018).…”

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Mobilising Consumers for Food Waste Reduction in Finnish Media Discourse

Raippalinna

2019

Food Waste Management

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Raippalinna explores how consumers are mobilised for food waste reduction in media discourse. Food waste reduction initiatives are often criticised for putting the responsibility on individual consumers, but little research exists on mobilisation of consumers in actual contexts. Through critical discourse analysis of media texts, Raippalinna investigates how the food waste problem and consumers are constructed in relation to each other in the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat 2010-2017. The analysis demonstrates that the discourses of consumer mobilisation feature mostly as consumer education where consumers' role is to manage their own consumption and household practices. The theoretical framework combines governmentality studies approach and practice theoretical approach on sustainable consumption. Raippalinna discusses if and how media discourse can contribute to a transformation of food (waste) related practices.

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“…The manner in which discourses on reform differ in how they rely on either realism or idealism is often subtle because they are part of the same democracy governmentality in the UN. Through this, the empirical aim of the paper is to increase awareness of the inevitable role of discourse in the reform debate, whereas the methodological aim is to contribute, firstly, with a globally oriented perspective on research connecting up discourse studies and governmentality studies (McIlvenny et al, 2016) and, secondly, with an answer to calls for more studies at the intersection of discourse studies and international relations (Lorenzo-Dus and Marsh, 2012)…”

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In the name of democracy: UNSC reform at the intersection of discourse and governmentality

Winther¹,

Lindegaard

2020

Discourse & Society

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Both scholars and practitioners are frustrated by the complexity of United Nations Security Council reform. Most research on the reform process is situated within international relations, and almost no attention is granted to the discursive dimensions of the reform. This article approaches democracy promotion as a governmental rationality within the United Nations, and it traces how this governmentality is co-constituted and negotiated discursively in the reform debate. The analysis focuses on argumentation and topoi in statements from debates about reform during 2015 to 2016 by two groups: The Group of Four and The Uniting for Consensus. The analysis demonstrates how the two groups utilise a topos of majority and a topos of equality, respectively, and how the groups thereby in different ways co-constitute and negotiate the governmental rationality of democracy. Through this, the article unravels the subtle ways in which the rigidity of the reform process is co-constituted through discourse.

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New perspectives on discourse and governmentality

Cited by 10 publications

References 113 publications

Samskabelse i grøn omstilling – nye roller og udfordringer for frontpersonalet

Samskabelse i grøn omstilling – nye roller og udfordringer for frontpersonalet

Mobilising Consumers for Food Waste Reduction in Finnish Media Discourse

In the name of democracy: UNSC reform at the intersection of discourse and governmentality

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