Sufficiency – an Emerging Discourse?

Dr. Pia Mamut

doi:10.5771/9783748942627

Summary

This book argues that while there is scholarly agreement on the relevance of sufficiency as a sustainability principle, there is no consensus about its precise contribution to change. Using discourse analysis, the author shows that sufficiency is also charged with multiple meanings in the context of the practices used in energy and climate model regions. It criticises the fact that the most common interpretation of sufficiency is also the one with the weakest transformative potential and shows how this untapped potential can be unleashed. This work can be used by researchers and policymakers who want to help sufficiency make its urgently needed contribution to sustainability. The author is a researcher in the fields of sustainability, democracy and energy.

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Publication year: 2023
Publication date: 07.12.2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7560-0631-1
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-4262-7
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Sustainable Development in the 21st Century
Volume: 7
Language: English
Pages: 274
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 18
1. 1.1 The transformation paradox of sufficiency No access
2. 1. 1.2.1 The conceptual approach: classifying sufficiency in the overarching discourse No access
  2. 1.2.2 Making prior knowledge visible in discourse No access
  3. 1.2.3 The methodological approach: discursive power and sufficiency No access
  4. 1.2.4 The empirical approach: uncovering the existing kinds of sufficiency No access
3. 1.3 The structure of this book No access
1. 2.1 Sufficiency — what do they choose it to mean? No access
2. 1. 2.2.1 The concept of change in environmental discourses No access
  2. 2.2.2 Sustainability values in social science discourses No access
3. 1. 2.3.1 Rigorous eco-sufficiency No access
  2. 2.3.2 Eco-modern sufficiency No access
  3. 2.3.3 Political eco-sufficiency No access
4. 2.4 Conclusion No access
1. 1. 3.1.1 From visible to invisible power No access
  2. 3.1.2 Situating discourse analysis in political science No access
  3. 3.1.3 Sufficiency as a critical lens for discourse analysis No access
2. 1. 3.2.1 The coupling of normality and normativity and a discourse’s dominant effect No access
  2. 1. When is it (not) a norm? No access
    2. How does a norm become normal? No access
    3. Studying a norm’s varying strength in CDA No access
3. 1. 3.3.1 The toolbox No access
  2. 1. The analytical steps and techniques No access
1. 1. 4.1.1 Case study design and selection procedure No access
  2. 1. The thematic discursive horizon No access
    2. The spatial discursive horizon No access
    3. The temporal discursive horizon No access
2. 1. 1. The analytical functions No access
    2. The text corpus No access
  2. 4.2.2 The media discourse No access
  3. 1. The analytical functions No access
    2. The text corpus No access
  4. 4.2.4 The interactions between the discursive levels No access
1. 1. 1. Sacrifice: dealing with limits No access
    2. The good life: a regional perspective No access
    3. Conclusion No access
  2. 1. Sufficiency as climate-friendly behaviours No access
    2. Sufficiency as engagement for a good life in the region No access
    3. Sufficiency as a sacrifice No access
    4. Conclusion No access
  3. 1. Overwriting normality: new normal change within the prevailing discourse formation No access
    2. Discursive gateways to polyeurhythmic trans-normal change No access
    3. Negotiating the meaning of sacrifice in the contexts of new normal and trans-normal change No access
    4. Conclusion No access
  4. 1. The absence of a proto-normalistic sacrifice discourse No access
    2. The main dominant discursive effect: the flexible normalisation of sufficiency No access
    3. The hollowing out of the polyeurhythmic trans-normal view of sufficiency No access
2. 1. 1. Public administrations as powerhouses of change No access
    2. Public administrations as regime challengers No access
    3. Conclusion No access
    4. 5.2.2 A simulative movement of (non-)climate citizens? No access
    5. Climate citizens as bearers of hope No access
  2. 1. Conclusion No access
  3. 1. The depoliticisation of the governance process No access
    2. New normal agency for sufficiency: the simulation of change No access
3. 1. 1. Interface 1: sufficiency, ecological limits and economic growth No access
    2. Interface 2: sufficiency, justice and the good life No access
    3. Interface 3: sufficiency, democracy and participation No access
  2. 5.3.2 A discursive effect no one could really have wanted No access
1. 1. 6.1.1 Sufficiency considered through the lens of discursive power No access
  2. 6.1.2 Sufficiency’s main interpretations in the environmental and social science discourse No access
  3. 6.1.3 The actually existing forms of sufficiency in energy and climate model regions No access
2. 1. 6.2.1 A climate for mainstreaming sufficiency? No access
  2. 6.2.2 Addressing sufficiency’s structural embeddedness No access
  3. 6.2.3 Bridging the perspectives of sufficiency and justice No access
1. 1. 7.1.1 Overview of the empirical text corpus No access
  2. 1. Short case descriptions No access
  3. 1. Discovery No access
    2. Institutionalisation No access
    3. Maturation No access
    4. Relevant government periods No access
  4. 7.1.4 The implementation of the focus groups and the interview guide No access
  5. 1. Reflexivity No access
    2. Intertextuality No access
    3. Trustworthiness No access
    4. Thick description and transferability No access
  6. 1. The contrast between the focus group, the administrative and the media discourse No access
    2. The contrast between the cases No access
    3. Reflection on possible biases No access
    4. The analytical transferability of insights No access
References No access Pages 249 - 272
References to the documents considered for fine analysis No access Pages 273 - 274