Post on 11-May-2023
State of the Artin climate engineering
discourse research
Mag. Nils MatznerInstitut für Technik- und Wissenschaftsforschung (STS)
AAU Klagenfurt
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responsibility: 294
governance: 1,891 government: 1,730assessment: 1,776
policy: 2,162
moral: 202hubris: 47
risk: 3,619
uncertainty: 1,477
potential: 3,683
discourse: 91
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A broader debate
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1 0 1 16 161 0 0 15
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2 0 2 11
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1977-1999 2000-2005 2006-2008 2009-2011 2012-2014
publications per domain
Science Social Science Economics Philosophy Law
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Discourse analysis is popular
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Social studies linked to discourse analysis
Other "Discourse" Discourse Analysis
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1. Used to say „discussion“
2. Conversation with all modalities and context (pragmatism and linguistics)
3. Ideal speech situation for open deleberation (Habermas)
4. Largescale construction of power and knowledge (Foucault)
Common ground: Discourse is about
language and politics, knowledge and validity, reality and construction…
Discours analysis? Discours analysis!
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Different kinds of discourse analyses of CE
1. Culture, media and narration analysis
▪ Researching: media representation, cultural acceptability
▪ Using: cultural studies and Critical Discourse Analysis
2. Metaphor analysis
▪ Researching: metaphors of control
▪ Using: language and metaphor theory
3. Pragmatic and linguistic analysis
▪ Researching: language usage, frames
▪ Using: linguistic and frame theory
4. Argumentative mapping
▪ Researching: theoretical argument structure
▪ Using: analytical philosophy
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Bildanalyse (Curvelo 2012)
“[…] [T]he full meaning of geoengineering
debates can only be perceived if it is connected
with the larger social imaginary of science
and technology in which geoengineering
narratives are rooted.”
Curvelo, Paula (2012): Exploring the Ethics of Geoengineering through Images. In: The International Journal of the Image 2 (2), S. 177–198.
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Metaphor analysis by Nerlich and Jaspal (2012)
▪ Analysis of 91 newspaper articles
▪ From 1988 to 2010
▪ Searching for “fundamental” metaphors
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Metaphor analysis by Nerlich and Jaspal (2012)
„We focus here on metaphor which enables us to see and understand one thing as
another or one thing in terms of another. In some respects metaphor, a tool we use
to think and act with, is a linguistic technology that needs as much ethical oversight
as the technologies we “see through” it, such as geoengineering. Metaphors are the
mind’s eyes and society’s tools. They provide us with visions of the world and
instruments to change it.“ (133)
Metaphors and arguments found:
1. Geoengineering as a techno-fix
2. Geoengineering as a medical fix
3. Geoengineering as plan B
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Quntification of framings by Scholte et al. (2013)
▪ Analysis of 181 newspaper articles
▪ From 2006 to 2011
▪ Coding of texts with framings
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Quntification of framings by Scholte et al. (2013)
▪ Risks and uncertainties▪ Scientific discoveries▪ Catastrophe▪ Ambivalence▪ Mitigation▪ Call for science▪ Current approach is failure▪ Benefits for science▪ Necessity▪ Ethical principles▪ No trust in science▪ Governance▪ Afraid of science▪ Out of propotion▪ Man can change natur▪ Conflict▪ Economic prospect▪ Last resort▪ Science fiction▪ Climate is complex▪ Political risk▪ It‘s serious
reduction
▪ Ambivalence▪ Avoiding catastrophe▪ Pragmatism▪ Norms and values▪ Benefits for society▪ Controversy▪ Techno-fix▪ Governance▪ Out of proportion
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Diskursive Bewertung (Luokkanen, et al. 2013)
Luokkanen, Matti; Huttunen, Suvi; Hilden, Mikael (2013): Geoengineering, news media and metaphors: Framing the controversial. In: Public Understanding of Science. DOI: 10.1177/0963662513475966.
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Literature: CE discourse analysis
▪ Anshelm, Jonas; Hansson, Anders (2014): Battling Promethean dreams and Trojan horses: Revealing the
critical discourses of geoengineering. In Energy Research & Social Science 2, pp. 135–144. DOI
10.1016/j.erss.2014.04.001.
▪ Anshelm, Jonas; Hansson, Anders (2014): The Last Chance to Save the Planet? An Analysis of the
Geoengineering Advocacy Discourse in the Public Debate. In Environmental Humanities 5, pp. 101–123.
▪ Bellamy, Rob; Chilvers, Jason; Vaughan, Naomi E.; Lenton, Timothy M. (2013): ‘Opening up’
geoengineering appraisal: Multi-Criteria Mapping of options for tackling climate change. In Global
Environmental Change 23 (5), pp. 926–937. DOI 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.011.
▪ Borick, Christopher; Rabe, Barry (2012): Americans Cool on Geoengineering. Approaches to Addressing
Climate Change. Brookings. Washington, D.C. (Governance Studies, 47). Available online at
http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/05/30-geo-engineering-rabe-borick.
▪ Buck, Holly Jean (2013): Climate engineering: spectacle, tragedy or solution? A content analysis of news
media framing. In Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe, Benjamin Stephan (Eds.): Interpretive approaches to global
climate governance. Deconstructing the greenhouse. New York: Routledge (Interventions), pp. 166–181.
▪ Cairns, Rose C.; Stirling, Andrew (2014): ‘Maintaining planetary systems’ or ‘concentrating global power?’
High stakes in contending framings of climate geoengineering. In Global Environmental Change 28, pp. 25–
38. DOI 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.04.005.
▪ Corner, Adam; Pidgeon, Nick (2014): Like artificial trees? The effect of framing by natural analogy on public
perceptions of geoengineering. In Climatic Change. DOI 10.1007/s10584-014-1148-6.
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▪ Edney, Kingsley; Symons, Jonathan (2013): China and the blunt temptations of geoengineering. The role of
solar radiation management in China’s strategic response to climate change. (forthcoming). In The Pacific
Review 26 (4), pp. 1–26. DOI 10.1080/09512748.2013.807865.
▪ Edvardsen, Hanne M.; Puškaric, Staša (2012): Voluntary Support of Scientific Research: A Road to a more
Sustainable Future. In RIThink 1 (1), pp. 33–38. Available online at
http://rithink.hr/brochure/pdf/hanne%20puskaric.pdf.
▪ Hiller, Sylvia; Renn, Ortwin (2012): Public Perception of Geoengineering. In S+F (Sicherheit und
Frieden/Security and Peace) 30 (4), pp. 215–220.
▪ Horton, Zach (2014): Collapsing Scale: Nanotechnology and Geoengineering as Speculative Media. In
Kornelia Konrad, Christopher Coenen, A. B. Dijkstra, Colin Milburn, Harro van Lente (Eds.): Shaping
emerging technologies. Governance, innovation, discourse: IOP Press (Studies of new and emerging
technologies / S.NET, 004), pp. 203–218.
▪ Janich, Nina; Simmerling, Anne (2013): „Nüchterne Forscher träumen…“. Nichtwissen im Klimadiskurs
unter deskriptiver und kritischer diskursanalytischer Betrachtung. In Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Martin Reisigl,
Ingo H. Warnke (Eds.): Diskurslinguistik im Spannungsfeld von Deskription und Kritik. Berlin: Akademie
Verlag Berlin (Diskursmuster - Discourse Patterns, 1), pp. 65–100.
▪ Kniebes, Carola; Merk, Christine; Pönitzsch, Gert; Rehdanz, Katrin; Schmidt, Ulrich (2014): Informed and
Uninformed Opinions on New Measures to Address Climate Change. Edited by Kiel Earth Institut. Kiel
(Working Paper, 1936). Available online at https://www.ifw-members.ifw-kiel.de/publications/informed-
and-uninformed-opinions-on-new-measures-to-address-climate-change.
▪ Luokkanen, Matti; Huttunen, Suvi; Hilden, Mikael (2013): Geoengineering, news media and metaphors:
Framing the controversial. In Public Understanding of Science. DOI 10.1177/0963662513475966.
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▪ Macnaghten, Phil; Szerszynski, Bronislaw (2013): Living the global social experiment. An analysis of public
discourse on solar radiation management and its implications for governance. In Global Environmental
Change 23 (2), pp. 465–474. DOI 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.12.008.
▪ Markusson, Nils (2013): Tensions in framings of geoengineering: Constitutive diversity and ambivalence
(CGG Working Papers, 003). Available online at http://geoengineering-governance-
research.org/perch/resources/workingpaper3-markussontensions-inframingsofgeoengineering.pdf.
▪ Markusson, Nils; Ginn, Franklin; Singh Ghaleigh, Navraj; Scott, Vivian (2013): ‘In case of emergency press
here’: framing geoengineering as a response to dangerous climate change. (online first). In WIREs Clim
Change, pp. n/a. DOI 10.1002/wcc.263.
▪ Nerlich, Brigitte; Jaspal, Rusi (2012): Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors, and the
Argument From Catastrophe. In Metaphor and Symbol 27 (2), pp. 131–147.
▪ Oldham, P.; Szerszynski, Bronislaw; Stilgoe, Jack; Brown, Casey; Eacott, B.; Yuille, A. (2014): Mapping the
landscape of climate engineering. In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 372 (2031). DOI
10.1098/rsta.2014.0065.
▪ Porter, Kate Elizabeth; Hulme, Mike (2013): The emergence of the geoengineering debate in the UK print
media: a frame analysis. In The Geographical Journal 179 (4), pp. 342–355. DOI 10.1111/geoj.12003.
▪ Scholte, Samantha; Vasileiadou, Eleftheria; Petersen, Arthur C. (2013): Opening up the societal debate on
climate engineering: how newspaper frames are changing. In Journal of Integrative Environmental
Sciences, pp. 1–16. DOI 10.1080/1943815X.2012.759593.
▪ Sikka, Tina (2012): A critical discourse analysis of geoengineering advocacy. In Critical Discourse Studies 9
(2), pp. 163–175. DOI 10.1080/17405904.2012.656377.
▪ Wright, Malcolm J.; Teagle, Damon A. H.; Feetham, Pamela M. (2014): A quantitative evaluation of the
public response to climate engineering. In Nature Climate change (4), pp. 106–110.