Negative externalities of food production: discourses on the contested Norwegian aquaculture industry
The concern of this article is the language and ontology of negative externalities. Four discourses on the financially successful industry of salmon farming in Norway are critically analyzed and deconstructed. The discourses are: "high turnover discourse", "technology optimism discour...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:dcdf76883eaa4d539f1e7854370b64cc 2023-05-15T15:32:14+02:00 Negative externalities of food production: discourses on the contested Norwegian aquaculture industry Erling A. N. Christiansen 2013-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.2458/v20i1.21747 https://doaj.org/article/dcdf76883eaa4d539f1e7854370b64cc EN ES FR eng spa fre University of Arizona Libraries https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/article/view/21747 https://doaj.org/toc/1073-0451 1073-0451 doi:10.2458/v20i1.21747 https://doaj.org/article/dcdf76883eaa4d539f1e7854370b64cc Journal of Political Ecology, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 180-198 (2013) Environmental sciences GE1-350 Political science J article 2013 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.2458/v20i1.21747 2022-12-31T00:24:25Z The concern of this article is the language and ontology of negative externalities. Four discourses on the financially successful industry of salmon farming in Norway are critically analyzed and deconstructed. The discourses are: "high turnover discourse", "technology optimism discourse", "first nature discourse" and "traditionalist discourse". Groups defending various discourses differ in their interpretations of a) human/nature relations i.e. either ecocentric, anthropocentric or biocentric, and b) in their respective approach to either a transformative, adaptive or reactive logic. By linking interpretations, concepts and logic inherent to these discourses, it is possible to make conclusions on their degree of coherency. The leading discourses are maintained in language through strategic framing and overdetermination. These linguistic mechanisms are revealed in the discursive application of the concepts of sustainability and wild fish. Rather than to surrender to relativism, the article recommends integration of realism and deconstruction. Key words: Atlantic salmon farming, food production, critical discourse analysis, negative externalities, soft constructionism, parsimony, political ecology, sustainability. Article in Journal/Newspaper Atlantic salmon Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Norway Journal of Political Ecology 20 1 |
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The concern of this article is the language and ontology of negative externalities. Four discourses on the financially successful industry of salmon farming in Norway are critically analyzed and deconstructed. The discourses are: "high turnover discourse", "technology optimism discourse", "first nature discourse" and "traditionalist discourse". Groups defending various discourses differ in their interpretations of a) human/nature relations i.e. either ecocentric, anthropocentric or biocentric, and b) in their respective approach to either a transformative, adaptive or reactive logic. By linking interpretations, concepts and logic inherent to these discourses, it is possible to make conclusions on their degree of coherency. The leading discourses are maintained in language through strategic framing and overdetermination. These linguistic mechanisms are revealed in the discursive application of the concepts of sustainability and wild fish. Rather than to surrender to relativism, the article recommends integration of realism and deconstruction. Key words: Atlantic salmon farming, food production, critical discourse analysis, negative externalities, soft constructionism, parsimony, political ecology, sustainability. |
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Negative externalities of food production: discourses on the contested Norwegian aquaculture industry |
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