TY - JOUR
T1 - A sustainable myth
T2 - A neo-Gramscian perspective on the populist and post-truth tendencies of the European green growth discourse
AU - Stegemann, Laura
AU - Ossewaarde, Marinus
N1 - Elsevier deal
PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - In the search for environmentally sustainable economic paradigms, the green growth approach has been developed by the EU and economic networks, as part of a wider sustainability discourse. While the EU repeatedly promotes sustainable development in the context of its greened hegemonic economic discourse, its member states’ frustrations regarding the EU's integrative policies have been a breeding ground for counter-hegemonic populism. Such anti-EU and typically right-wing populism promotes national and conventional modes of energy production that is emancipated from foreign providers, science, and EU legislation; and it reveals post-truth tendencies in the sense that it relativizes conventional knowledge as well causation and correlation. In this paper, we seek to uncover the populist and post-truth tendencies within the hegemonic green growth discourse itself. In our paper, we seek to unmask the myth of sustainable energy transformation of the green growth discourse, in terms of a hegemon's engagement University of Twente, Department of Public Adm EU and associated economic networks – with –University of Twente, Department of Public Adm post-truth: we find that post-truth tendencies are not only manifested by counter-hegemonic anti-EU and right-wing populism but is also expressed within the environmental populist expressions of the hegemonic green growth discourse itself.
AB - In the search for environmentally sustainable economic paradigms, the green growth approach has been developed by the EU and economic networks, as part of a wider sustainability discourse. While the EU repeatedly promotes sustainable development in the context of its greened hegemonic economic discourse, its member states’ frustrations regarding the EU's integrative policies have been a breeding ground for counter-hegemonic populism. Such anti-EU and typically right-wing populism promotes national and conventional modes of energy production that is emancipated from foreign providers, science, and EU legislation; and it reveals post-truth tendencies in the sense that it relativizes conventional knowledge as well causation and correlation. In this paper, we seek to uncover the populist and post-truth tendencies within the hegemonic green growth discourse itself. In our paper, we seek to unmask the myth of sustainable energy transformation of the green growth discourse, in terms of a hegemon's engagement University of Twente, Department of Public Adm EU and associated economic networks – with –University of Twente, Department of Public Adm post-truth: we find that post-truth tendencies are not only manifested by counter-hegemonic anti-EU and right-wing populism but is also expressed within the environmental populist expressions of the hegemonic green growth discourse itself.
KW - UT-Hybrid-D
KW - Hegemony
KW - Populism
KW - Post-truth
KW - Green growth discourse
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047075323&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.erss.2018.05.015
DO - 10.1016/j.erss.2018.05.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047075323
VL - 43
SP - 25
EP - 32
JO - Energy research & social science
JF - Energy research & social science
SN - 2214-6296
ER -