A Neopragmatic Perspective on the Processual Nature of Landscape—Coastal Land Loss in Louisiana in the Context of Scientific Findings, Social Patterns of Interpretation, and Individual Experience

The changes on the Louisiana coast due to land loss can be understood as a process, and the social construction of these processes is highly complex. Due to this complexity, we will examine these social patterns of interpretation as well as individual experiences of coastal land loss in Louisiana wi...

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Published inSustainability Vol. 16; no. 5; p. 2078
Main Authors Hinz, Lena, Weber, Anna-Maria, Koegst, Lara, Kühne, Olaf
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.03.2024
Subjects
Germany
Gulf of Mexico
Hurricanes
Internet videos
Language
Linguistics
Luhmann, Niklas
Philosophy
Popper, Karl
Pragmatism
Social networks
Traditions
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Gulf of Mexico
Germany
Louisiana
United States > US
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Summary:The changes on the Louisiana coast due to land loss can be understood as a process, and the social construction of these processes is highly complex. Due to this complexity, we will examine these social patterns of interpretation as well as individual experiences of coastal land loss in Louisiana within a neopragmatic meta-theoretical framework using several methods, data, researcher perspectives, forms of representation, and theories, with a special focus on the construction of coastal land loss by the media. For this purpose, comments below a YouTube video on a hurricane event on Grand Isle, Louisiana, as well as on-site interviews with people affected by coastal land loss, were qualitatively analyzed. The results were interpreted with the help of various theories such as the theory of three landscapes, Dahrendorf’s conflict theory, Bourdieu’s theory of social capital, and Luhmann’s autopoietic systems theory. The research reveals patterns of interpretation, categorization, and evaluation of processes from an internal and external perspective that are highly morally charged.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su16052078