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Article published In: Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change
Edited by Franzisca Weder
[Journal of Language and Politics 22:5] 2023
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Cultivation of sustainability in a discourse of change

Perspectives on communication for sustainability as new “norm” and principle of action in socio-ecological transformation processes

ORCiD logo with link | Vienna University of Business and Economics
Published online: 5 October 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22122.wed
Abstract
Sustainability has been well used (and abused) as “buzz-word”, label or language token for certain behavior and action in political, organizational and increasingly in individual communication. Based on critical approaches in language, discourse and communication studies, the paper explores potential processes of normalization of sustainability as a new norm, discusses new theories and methodological variations that can be applied to better understand sustainable development, and offers a theoretical concept for cultivation of sustainability as a dialectic process of questioning and stabilization in transformation and change processes. Complemented by a communication for development and social change perspective, the paper lays the theoretical foundation for an understanding of sustainability as organizing principle in socio-ecological change processes, which is further elaborated in the contributions of this Special Issue, which are introduced at the end.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.How sustainability has been “normalized” – without being cultivated
  • 3.Sustainability and communication? Interdisciplinary perspectives
  • 4.Cultivation of sustainability
    • (a)Communicative problematization? Developing a new perspective on ‘normalization’
    • (b)Cultivation of sustainability – a concept
  • 5.Conclusion and about the Special Issue
  • References
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