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How justice shapes transition governance : a discourse analysis of Swedish policy debates
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Journal of environmental planning and management, 2023, Vol. 67, No. 9, pp. 1998-2016
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FISCHER, Anke, JOOSSE, Sofie, STRANDELL, Jacob, SÖDERBERG, Nora, JOHANSSON, Kornelia, BOONSTRA, Wiebren Johannes, How justice shapes transition governance : a discourse analysis of Swedish policy debates, Journal of environmental planning and management, 2023, Vol. 67, No. 9, pp. 1998-2016 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75357
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In both policy-making and academia, the realisation is growing that transitions striving for sustainability have to be just to be socially accepted. This insight has given rise to institutionalised approaches to a “just transition”–but also beyond these, justice is a key challenge in the governance of sustainability transitions. In this paper, we examine how justice arguments are being used in national-level discourses of transition governance in Sweden. Analysing 121 policy-related documents from 2019 to 2021, we found that justice was discursively treated in away that essentially stifled change. Political actors attempted to trump each other's justice claims rather than to genuinely engage with them. Justice concerns that would not serve re-election, such as solidarity across social boundaries, were almost absent from the material. Based on these findings, we critically explore how justice arguments contribute to politicizing transition governance in particular ways, rendering some policy options impossible.
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Published online: 16 February 2023