Sustainability and Textual Extensions of Institutional Discourse

Testing the Great Lakes Compact

Bibliographic Data

ID2370484
AuthorsTheresa Castor (0000-0002-8951-3974, University of Wisconsin–Parkside, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume44
Issue2
Pages341-356
Publication date2018-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920517693673
OpenAlexW2589028252
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

This article examines the interplay of discourse, texts, and sustainability in the public hearing process for a Wisconsin city's application to divert water from the Great Lakes of North America. The application is controversial and has been labeled as a 'precedent' setting action with respect to the Great Lakes Compact and water management. This article examines how texts are used to support positions on the diversion application and on sustainability. This analysis takes a discourse analytic approach to analyze local public hearings. The central question that is addressed is how do texts matter in sustainability efforts? The analysis indicates that texts are significant in supporting positions, but are associated with stances in different ways such that the same text may be used to support divergent positions. Meeting participants converged in agreeing on the importance of specific texts and of sustainability, but differed in how they related actions to texts

Discourse analysis · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Public discourse · Sociology · Sustainability · Computer Science · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Risk Perception and Management · Social Science and Policy Research · Ecology

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