Climate Politics in Green Deals: Exposing the Political Frontiers of the European Green Deal

This article investigates the political attempts to frame European climate politics and provides a critical discourse analysis of the European Green Deal. A rapid transition towards low-carbon development across the world has been contested by discourses aiming to acknowledge the inseparability of s...

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Published inPolitics and governance Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 8 - 16
Main Authors Samper, Juan Antonio, Schockling, Amanda, Islar, Mine
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lisbon Cogitatio Press 01.01.2021
Cogitatio
Subjects
climate politics
depoliticization
Discourse analysis
Discourses
european green deal
Hegemony
Neoliberalism
Neutrality
Policy analysis
Policy making
Political communication
Political Science
Politics
Samhällsvetenskap
Social Sciences
Statsvetenskap
sustainability
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Summary:This article investigates the political attempts to frame European climate politics and provides a critical discourse analysis of the European Green Deal. A rapid transition towards low-carbon development across the world has been contested by discourses aiming to acknowledge the inseparability of social and ecological issues. These discussions are fairly new in the European context and in 2019, the European Commission presented its Communication on the European Green Deal—the European Union’s legislative roadmap to carbon neutrality by 2050. Empirical evidence for this article is derived from process tracing and policy analysis of the European Commission’s documents on the European Green Deal in relation to existing Green New Deals. Drawing from a neo-Gramscian perspective we argue that the European Green Deal is an attempt to extend the neoliberal hegemonic formation within European climate politics. This results in the foreclosure of democratic channels for articulating climate politics according to dissenting discourses, thereby avoiding the political contestation inherent to climate politics.
ISSN:2183-2463
2183-2463
DOI:10.17645/pag.v9i2.3853