Ökologische Kommunikation in Deutschland

Middle-class struggles against high-rise construction in Buenos Aires. Urban democratization or enforcement of particular interests?

“…These logics reflect the crucial institutional spheres of modernityscientification, legalization, moralization, and estheticizationand can explain the dynamics of the discourse. Certain communicative strategies elaborated by collective actors serve to delegitimize competing protesters and to create public consensus (Rancière, 2004); for instanceas our case study also shows -, when government stakeholders play off judicial aspects against moral arguments or when a topic is treated as a political issue and moralization is discounted as obstructive (Brand, Eder, & Poferl, 1997). (5) Finally, we studied two outcome dimensions in the context of a possible (re-) politicization of urban governance: (1) master frames (Benford & Snow, 2000), and (2) a typology of spatial-political discourse practices used by conflicting parties to uncover the outcome of the struggles against high-rise constructions (see Table 1).…”

“…In order to grasp the discourse dynamics and practices, we followed a two-step approach: In an initial step, we identified the actor frames and framing strategies used to implement claims. Within this process, actor groups make specific use of superior discourses and framing logics (Brand et al, 1997) (cf. Section 2).…”

The Spatial‐Political Outcome of Urban Development Conflicts: Emancipatory Dynamics of Protests against Gentrification in Peñalolén, Santiago de Chile

“…Based on Foucault's discourse formations, frames can be understood as collectively shared interpretative patterns of how occurrences in the world are experienced and perceived (Brand et al ., ). In their understanding of collective action frames, Benford and Snow () emphasize the dynamic and strategic components of actions.…”

“…In a second step (see the findings under ‘Participation in the interests of the common good’ and ‘Right to the city’), I determined the dominant frames, i.e. master frames, that were articulated by the discourse coalitions in the course of the planning conflict, thereby supporting a hegemonic formation (Brand et al ., ). The manifestation of these coalitions is related to discourse practices, i.e.…”

Social science and nature. A review of environmental sociology in Germany

“…They have already evolved in various topic areas, as for example environmental impact analysis (Rassmus and Bonk, 2001;Heinelt, 2000), shaping of environmentally compatible products (Mtiller, 1995), work and environment (Hildebrandt&chmid 1999; Hildebrandt and Linne, 2000), management and environment (Birke/Burschel /Schwarz, 1997), mobility (Ciitz, Jahn and Schultz, 1997;Hesse, 1999;Tully, 1999;Rammler, 2001;Heine, 2001), urban problems and housing (Gestring et al, 1997), waste problems (Martens, 1999;Keller, 1998;Hofmeister, 1998), life styles (Reusswig, 1994;Holzapfel, 1997;Hagemann, 1998;Rink, 2002) and consumer behaviour (Scherhorn, 1997;Hirsch, 2001;Neuner, 2002), risk communication/ecological communication (Jungermann, Rohrmannand and Wiedemann, 1990;Bechmann, 1997;Brand, Eder and Poferl, 1997), nature conservation and social conflicts (Brendle, 1 999)4. Other problems are crossing most of those topics: in particular gender problems (Nebelung et al, 2001) and a broad variety of conflicting interests which are related to problems of fairness and justice (Diefenbacher, 2001;Lange, 2002) and which are requiring new forms of mediation and new institutional and non-institutional arrangements (Weidner, 1998;Prittwitz, 2000).…”