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Michael Kranert

@kranertmichael.bsky.social

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Associate Prof in Sociolinguistics at UoS. Language, politics, discourse and institution. Here more citizen and father.

Michael Kranert @kranertmichael.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

New article alert: My article on "The wickedness of net-zero policy: scales in policy discourse" is finally out open access in Critical Discourse Studies #discourse #climatechange www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ABSTRACT
Broad goals on climate change are largely set at international and
national levels, whereas the tangible action required to tackle the
challenge of climate change is essentially implemented at a local
and individual level. The paper investigates how international policy
discourses on climate change are adapted in local government,
analysing a data set from a council debate in Germany about the
EU programme ‘100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030’ and
the textual and discursive networks created by that debate. The
analysis is based on recordings from the council and committee
debates, the different versions of motions, as well as the broader
textual networks produced by the debate. Although the debate did
not result in this city taking part in the programme, it initiated a
wider debate within the urban society and increased the influence
of local policy expertise. The article contributes to the agenda of
critical policy discourse analysis by outlining the role of
epistemological and ontological scales in the connection of global
and local policy discourses, which contribute to the complexity and
wickedness of climate change as a policy problem.

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Michael Kranert @kranertmichael.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

New article alert: My article on "The wickedness of net-zero policy: scales in policy discourse" is finally out open access in Critical Discourse Studies #discourse #climatechange www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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