Discourse coalitions for sustainability transformations: Common ground and conflict beyond neoliberalism

Riedy, C

Discourse coalitions for sustainability transformations: Common ground and conflict beyond neoliberalism

Riedy, C

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Publisher:: Elsevier BV
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2020, 45, pp. 100-112
Issue Date:: 2020-08-01

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dc.contributor.author	Riedy, C https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3668-737X
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-06T07:47:09Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-06T07:47:09Z
dc.date.issued	2020-08-01
dc.identifier.citation	Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2020, 45, pp. 100-112
dc.identifier.issn	1877-3435
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/145878
dc.description.abstract	© 2020 Elsevier B.V. A neoliberal capitalist discourse dominates global affairs, with devastating effects for ecological integrity and social justice. Diverse alternative discourses challenge its dominance. This paper reviews alternative discourses to surface discursive common ground and conflicts, arguing that this is an important step towards the formation of discourse coalitions that could rival the political power of neoliberal capitalism. There is common ground in how alternative discourses see the world (systems and networks), their normative relationship with nature (sustainable, regenerative or planetcentric) and with each other (cooperative and entangled), their goals (wellbeing, justice and plurality) and some of the strategies for transformation (participatory governance, a new economic system, prioritizing different human values and participatory knowledge practices). There are also important conflicts that could offer productive sites for agonistic dialogue between plural discourses. These common and conflicting memes may be seeds of the discursive transformation that is essential to support flourishing, sustainable futures.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier BV
dc.relation.ispartof	Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.cosust.2020.09.014
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess
dc.title	Discourse coalitions for sustainability transformations: Common ground and conflict beyond neoliberalism
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	45
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - ISF - Institute for Sustainable Futures
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/Institute For Sustainable Futures
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	45

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© 2020 Elsevier B.V. A neoliberal capitalist discourse dominates global affairs, with devastating effects for ecological integrity and social justice. Diverse alternative discourses challenge its dominance. This paper reviews alternative discourses to surface discursive common ground and conflicts, arguing that this is an important step towards the formation of discourse coalitions that could rival the political power of neoliberal capitalism. There is common ground in how alternative discourses see the world (systems and networks), their normative relationship with nature (sustainable, regenerative or planetcentric) and with each other (cooperative and entangled), their goals (wellbeing, justice and plurality) and some of the strategies for transformation (participatory governance, a new economic system, prioritizing different human values and participatory knowledge practices). There are also important conflicts that could offer productive sites for agonistic dialogue between plural discourses. These common and conflicting memes may be seeds of the discursive transformation that is essential to support flourishing, sustainable futures.

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