Post Rio Communication Styles for Deliberation: between individualization and collective action

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    Abstract

    The communicative turn in planning, multi-layered governance and governmentality are analytical concepts from various schools of thought to comprehend the emergence of new types of publicprivate politics when it comes to complex, wicked issues such as sustainability or the 3rd wave of public health: health promotion. The paper explores a research approach to compare two different policy communication tracks in order to conceive various impacts on deliberation. The tracks are constructed along the narratives individual-collective & consensus-conflictual in the discursive framing of political communication. We build on an ANT inspired methodology and look into two simultaneously evolving political agendas during the last two decades - sustainability and health promotion - that have framed communication efforts, campaigns and politics in general. How is public participation and deliberation understood in the two policy tracks along historical stages? When is governmentality politics by deliberation for the individual actor, subsequently governing for collective action a winner or a loser?
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationCommunication for the Commons. Revisiting Participation and Environment : Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Communication and Environment
    EditorsMark S. Meisner, Nadarajah Sriskandarejah, Stephen P. Depoe
    Number of pages15
    Place of PublicationTurtle Island
    PublisherThe International Environmental Communication Association
    Publication dateJun 2015
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2015
    EventThe Conference on Communication and Environment : Environmental Communication: Participation Revisited: openings and closures for deliberations on the commons - Uppsala, Sweden
    Duration: 6 Jun 201310 Jun 2013
    http://theieca.org/conference/2013-conference-communication-and-environment-uppsala

    Conference

    ConferenceThe Conference on Communication and Environment
    Country/TerritorySweden
    CityUppsala
    Period06/06/201310/06/2013
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    Bibliographical note

    Holm, J. and P. Almlund (2015): Post Rio Communication Styles for Deliberation - between individualization and collective action , in: Mark S. Meisner, Nadarajah Sriskandarajah and Stephen P. Depoe (eds.) Communication for the Commons - Revisiting Participation and Environment. Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Communication and Environment Uppsala, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, June 6-11, 2013. Published 2015

    Keywords

    • Politics of visions
    • Multilevel
    • Regulating complexity

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