TY - JOUR
T1 - Co-Creating Green Transition
T2 - How Municipality Employees Negotiate their Professional Identities as Agents of Citizen Involvement in a Cross-Local Setting
AU - Horsbøl, Anders
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Citizen involvement plays an important role in many governmental and municipal attempts towards green transition, reflecting a departure from a deficit model of public communication towards participatory ambitions of engaging citizens. Recently, the notion of co-creation or co-production has gained importance as a way of conceptualizing and organizing citizen involvement. The current study examines how four municipality partners in Sweden and Denmark embark on a common project on citizen involvement and co-creation as an avenue to green transition, addressing private decisions of individual citizens or families where the municipality has no legislative competence. By analysing how several local authorities with different but similar challenges negotiate and jointly identify themselves as agents of citizen involvement, the study offers an upscaling to what may be termed the plura-local level. Analytically, the study takes a discourse approach, combining close readings of texts and talk with an interdiscursive and diachronic analysis.
AB - Citizen involvement plays an important role in many governmental and municipal attempts towards green transition, reflecting a departure from a deficit model of public communication towards participatory ambitions of engaging citizens. Recently, the notion of co-creation or co-production has gained importance as a way of conceptualizing and organizing citizen involvement. The current study examines how four municipality partners in Sweden and Denmark embark on a common project on citizen involvement and co-creation as an avenue to green transition, addressing private decisions of individual citizens or families where the municipality has no legislative competence. By analysing how several local authorities with different but similar challenges negotiate and jointly identify themselves as agents of citizen involvement, the study offers an upscaling to what may be termed the plura-local level. Analytically, the study takes a discourse approach, combining close readings of texts and talk with an interdiscursive and diachronic analysis.
KW - Citizen involvement
KW - co-creation
KW - co-production
KW - discourse analysis
KW - environmental communication
KW - professional identity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044076256&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17524032.2018.1436580
DO - 10.1080/17524032.2018.1436580
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1752-4032
VL - 12
SP - 701
EP - 714
JO - Environmental Communication - Journal of Nature and Culture
JF - Environmental Communication - Journal of Nature and Culture
IS - 5
ER -