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Environmental issues are increasingly understood in legal terms, as demonstrated by many recent court cases addressing climate change and environmental harm. At the same time, legislation and surveillance targeting environmental activism has increased in several countries. In this workshop, we examine how methods from discourse analysis and corpus linguistics can be used to shed light on these phenomena, analysing empirical cases from France, USA and Norway.
Programme
10:00-10:15 Welcome and presentation of the workshop and participants
10:15-10:35 Maëline Coeur (Université Catholique de l'Ouest, Angers)
The use of the term "ecoterrorism" in environmental controversies: a discursive analysis of the Sainte-Soline megabasin protests
10:35-10:55 Daniel Lees Fryer (Østfold University College)
"The real terrorists are in government": exploring radical environmentalism and the green scare through the writings of environmental activists
10:55-11:15 Anje Müller Gjesdal (Østfold University College) & Synnøve Økland Jahnsen (Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research)
"Environmental crime" as a discursive resource in public debates about environmental harm: a diachronic analysis of Norwegian news media
11:15-11:30 Final discussion
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