scholarly journals Governing Sustainable Subjects: Environmentality in Polity,  Economy and Civil Society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Morgan J. Hamlin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Broad Concept ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Consumption Practices

<p>“Sustainability” is a broad concept that is used to guide a diverse range of government policies, corporate governance practices, and environmental movements; promote ethical and ‘green’ consumer products; and to transform existing production and consumption practices, to name but a few. While these various manifestations of sustainability differ from one another, they appear to be linked by a shared narrative. In this thesis, I utilise Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis to investigate if and why sustainability discourses share a common narrative. I focus on the relationship between the management of the population and the supposed boundaries between the state, market, and civil society by exploring the emergence of the terms “environmental sustainability” and “sustainable consumption” within the practices and narratives of governance and self-regulation. By combining Slavoj Zizek’s notion of ideology with Timothy W. Luke’s concept of environmentality, and Michel Foucault’s conceptions of governmentality and power, I argue that the governmentalisation of sustainability is the common thread that runs through the three narratives that I analyse. More specifically, I argue that quotidian sustainability narratives have the effect of regulating human conduct through largely apolitical and technical understandings of environmental problems, disciplinary practices, and practices of the self that appear to remove risk from the act of consumption and everyday life.</p>

scholarly journals Governing Sustainable Subjects: Environmentality in Polity,  Economy and Civil Society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Morgan J. Hamlin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Broad Concept ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Consumption Practices

<p>“Sustainability” is a broad concept that is used to guide a diverse range of government policies, corporate governance practices, and environmental movements; promote ethical and ‘green’ consumer products; and to transform existing production and consumption practices, to name but a few. While these various manifestations of sustainability differ from one another, they appear to be linked by a shared narrative. In this thesis, I utilise Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis to investigate if and why sustainability discourses share a common narrative. I focus on the relationship between the management of the population and the supposed boundaries between the state, market, and civil society by exploring the emergence of the terms “environmental sustainability” and “sustainable consumption” within the practices and narratives of governance and self-regulation. By combining Slavoj Zizek’s notion of ideology with Timothy W. Luke’s concept of environmentality, and Michel Foucault’s conceptions of governmentality and power, I argue that the governmentalisation of sustainability is the common thread that runs through the three narratives that I analyse. More specifically, I argue that quotidian sustainability narratives have the effect of regulating human conduct through largely apolitical and technical understandings of environmental problems, disciplinary practices, and practices of the self that appear to remove risk from the act of consumption and everyday life.</p>

scholarly journals Considerations, benefits and unintended consequences of banning plastic shopping bags for environmental sustainability: A systematic literature review

2021 ◽  
pp. 0734242X2110039
Author(s):  
Asphat Muposhi ◽  
Mercy Mpinganjira ◽  
Marius Wait
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Policy Option ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Transient Nature ◽  
Plastic Bags ◽  
Plastic Bag ◽  
Foamed Plastics

Although the ban on plastic bags is gaining in prominence as a policy option to manage plastic bag litter, there are mixed views on its rationale and effectiveness. This study employs a systematic literature review to understand considerations, benefits and unintended consequences of banning plastic bags. The review’s results pointed to the limited success of a plastic bag ban owing to lack of suitable alternatives, limited state capacity to monitor and enforce the ban, thriving black market, structural and instrumental power of the plastic industry. The power of the industry was manifested by the covert practice of deflecting accountability to consumers by focusing on business-oriented solutions, including an inclination towards self-regulation. The findings of this study underscored the need for a global treaty to address the transient nature of plastic bag litter and moving away from the symbolic gesture of targeting only plastic shopping bags but considering the environmental impact of all forms of plastic such as straws, foamed plastics, plastic bottles and caps. There is a general consensus in literature that the end of plastic shopping bags is not nigh due to their utilitarian benefits. This study therefore recommends the promotion of a circular economy focusing on ecological modernisation, sustainable plastic bag manufacturing and recovery strategies such as recycling as a long-term strategy. A significant strand of literature reviewed also recommends the adoption of community-driven approaches such as voluntary initiatives as opposed to a plastic bag ban as they proved to be effective in promoting environmental citizenship behaviours in countries such as Finland.

scholarly journals Examining the Discourse of Perfume Advertisements: An Analysis of the Verbal and the Visual

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 117-131
Author(s):  
Vandana Lunyal
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Common People ◽  
Cultural Stereotypes ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
The One ◽  
Effective Use

In the world that promotes consumerism, companies are in a competition to produce a variety of commodities and to convert people into consumers of their products whether they need them or not. The abundance of consumer products is promoted through advertisements. These advertisements persuade the common people to become consumers for which they use a variety of strategies, the most common being the use of problem-solution format in language and an effective use of the verbal and the non-verbal. This paper focuses on investigating the verbal and the non-verbal aspects of the text to examine how ideological constructs function in the discourse of advertisingthrough the use of hegemony. A perfume advertisement has been selected for a detailed analysis of the verbal and the visual elements to illustrate how advertisers commonly attempt to transmit some underlying, yet unasserted, meanings to unsuspecting readers who may understand the intentions of the advertisers i.e. to promote consumption but may not understand that the aim is achieved by generally promoting cultural stereotypes which work towards the disadvantage of one social group vis-à-vis the other especially the one that the advertisement is addressed to. The tool for the analysis of the advertisement is Fairclough’s model of critical discourse analysis (CDA) that uses the analysis of the verbal and the visual to reveal ideological underpinnings. CDA also has pedagogical implications for instance the language used for describing products, if analysed critically by language learners, helps them to unfold the hidden meanings as is illustrated through the analysis. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v19i1-2.12085 Journal of NELTA, Vol 19 No. 1-2, December 2014: 117-131

scholarly journals Consumer Readiness to Reduce Meat Consumption for the Purpose of Environmental Sustainability: Insights from Norway

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marthe Austgulen ◽  
Silje Skuland ◽  
Alexander Schjøll ◽  
Frode Alfnes
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Group Interviews

Food production is associated with various environmental impacts and the production of meat is highlighted as a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. A transition toward plant-based and low-meat diets has thus been emphasised as an important contribution to reducing climate change. By combining results from a consumer survey, focus group interviews and an in-store field experiment, this article investigates whether Norwegian consumers are ready to make food choices based on what is environmentally sustainable. We ask how consumers perceive the environmental impacts of food consumption, whether they are willing and able to change their food consumption in a more climate-friendly direction, and what influences their perceptions and positions. The results show that there is uncertainty among consumers regarding what constitutes climate- or environmentally friendly food choices and that few consumers are motivated to change their food consumption patterns for climate- or environmental reasons. Consumers’ support to initiatives, such as eating less meat and increasing the prices of meat, are partly determined by the consumers’ existing value orientation and their existing consumption practices. Finally, we find that although providing information about the climate benefits of eating less meat has an effect on vegetable purchases, this does not seem to mobilise consumer action any more than the provision of information about the health benefits of eating less meat does. The article concludes that environmental policies aiming to transfer part of the responsibility for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to food consumers is being challenged by the fact that most consumers are still not ready to make food choices based on what is best for the climate or environment.

scholarly journals IS ORGANIC FOOD A SUSTAINABLE CHOICE? EVALUATING ORGANIC FOOD PRODUCTION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-700
Author(s):  
Şirin Gizem KÖSE
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Organic Movement ◽  
Food Purchase ◽  
Consumer Perspective ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
Almost All

Excessive consumption, deterioration of nature, and misusing the resources are problems of current humanity and future generations. Sustainability has started to become a priority for both practitioners and customers. In this respect, sustainable consumption and production practices stand out in almost all areas. Environmental sustainability concerns also affect food consumption habits. Sustainable agriculture and organic movement accelerated in recent times. In this context, the purpose of this study is to evaluate organic food in the framework of environmental sustainability by investigating literature and consumers' opinions. It is aimed to investigate organic food in terms of environmental sustainability with consumer perspective in this study. This study collected data through In-Depth interview method in line with this purpose. The results of the study signify that sustainable consumption and organic food purchase intention are interrelated. It's proposed that environmental sensitivity and environmental knowledge have positive roles, whereas scepticism has a negative role in organic food purchase intention.

scholarly journals The development of conscious self-regulation of workers of coal industry enterprises as a condition for ensuring the safety of professional activities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Stanislavovna Morozova ◽  
Evgeniia Aleksandrovna Medovikova ◽  
Daria Nikolaevna Grinenko ◽  
Anastasiia Evgenevna Kargina
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Broad Concept ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual

The actual problem of our time at the enterprises of the Kuzbass coal industry is the moment of ensuring the psychological security of the employee's personality. Psychological security is a fairly broad concept that includes many components and is exposed to various factors [2]. The aim of the study is to consider the importance of self-regulation of the individual as a condition for ensuring the safety of the subject of professional activity. The following methods and techniques were used in the study: The method "Style of self-regulation of behavior" by V. I. Morosanova; Test "Meaning-life orientations" by D. A. Leontiev; Questionnaire by H. Zachera and M. Freze "Professional time perspective of the future". The research is based on the development and testing of the technology of psychological and pedagogical influence in the form of reflexive seminars, which allows to increase the level of awareness of self-regulation of subjects of professional activity.

Sustainable Consumption and Production: An Analysis of Implementation of Pakistan’s Policy Framework of SDG-12

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-129
Author(s):  
Noor Fatima ◽  
Imran Ashraf ◽  
Sania Zehraa
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production

The sustainable consumption and production is crucially relevant for Pakistan, given the massive degradation and depletion of natural resources due to the population explosion – and agricultural and industrial development pursued without regard for environmental sustainability. Freshwater availability has declined and quality of drinking water has deteriorated, leading to increase in water-borne diseases. The decaying water infrastructure results in a 40pc water loss in conveyance from dams to farms, for agricultural development. Industrial, agricultural, and household chemicals are freely imported and used without any regulatory system. Massive depletion of natural resources has meant the cutting of trees, resulting in increased timber imports. Pakistan National Action Plan (PNAP) was developed in May 2017 to achieve the sustainable goal particularly goal 12, which is about Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). This paper focuses on the ingenious activity and strategy devised in the PNAP for the preparedness, implementation and monitoring of the SDG-12, as National Developmental Agenda of Pakistan. Utilizing library research methods, the major material used for this research is qualitatively collected by analyzing the contents of documents. For primary data, government documents have been consulted. Whereas the secondary data has been collected from books and articles available on the theme.

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