Diprose, K, Fern, R, Vanderbeck, RM orcid.org/0000-0003-0274-3505 et al. (4 more authors) (2018) Corporations, Consumerism and Culpability: Sustainability in the British Press. Environmental Communication, 12 (5). pp. 672-685. ISSN 1752-4032
Abstract
Sustainability and sustainable development are prominent themes in international policy-making, corporate PR, news-media and academic scholarship. Its definitions are contested, however sustainability is associated with a three-pillar focus on economic development, environmental conservation and social justice, most recently espoused in the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. In spite of its common usage, there is little research about how sustainability is represented and refracted in public discourse in different national contexts. We examine British national press coverage of sustainability and sustainable development in 2015 in a cross-market sample of national newspapers. Our findings show that key international policy events and environmental and social justice frames are peripheral, while neoliberalism and neoliberal environmentalism vis-à-vis the promotion of technocratic solutions, corporate social responsibility and “sustainable” consumerism are the predominant frames through which the British news-media reports sustainability. This holds regardless of newspaper quality and ideological orientation.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Environmental Communication on Environmental Communication, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17524032.2017.1400455. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Sustainability; sustainable development; UK newspapers; discourse analysis; consumption |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2017 15:45 |
Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2018 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17524032.2017.1400455 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:125298 |