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You are here, master thesis: discursive framing analysis of the european commission’s green deal speeches from the 1st of january 2023 to the 30th of june 2023. the dominance of environmental economics integrating ecological economics..
In 2019, the European Commission issued its new European Green Deal, being the redline of its environmental policy, in response of the public call for environmental action. Previous academic papers treated how the Green Deal’s discourse balances economy and environment. Our purpose is to depict: how does the European Commission’s discourse on the European Green Deal – from the 1st of January 2023 till the 30th of June 2023 – frame the environmental crisis and the environmental action along more an environmental economic paradigm or more an ecological economic paradigm? Shortly, the first paradigm favorizes the neoclassic economic model while the second contains economic possibilities under environment. We initially assume that the Commission’s discourse eventually frames more the environmental crisis and action along an environmental economic paradigm; by evacuating and depoliticizing a part of the complexity of the environmental crisis and action, building a narrative of the inevitability of the dominant frame that falls into welfare progress for the European Union through growth, to preserve consumption. Our case-study shows us that, following former research, environmental economics still dominates but it is politically impossible to reject ecological economics. The challenge of this master thesis is to deduce a dominant paradigm in the Commission’s discourse on the European Green Deal by exfiltrating the dominant frame and demonstrating how its construction leads to the power balance between environmental and ecological economics and bounds the policies’ possibilities. We dress the components distribution between both paradigms within the Commission’s speeches and we explain how it holds. We provide then the discursive framing construction analysis as such, based on discursive institutionalism and framing studies theories.
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