『Abstract
This study aims to open the black box of resistance to sustainable
energy technologies by analyzing (shifts in ) media discourse.
To this end, media coverage on biofuels in the Netherlands between
2000 and 2008 is analyzed by means of combining novel quantitative
approaches with practitioner interviews. The quantitative analyses
reveal the dynamics in the content of media discourse, but also
its underlying structure in the form of two axes, each representing
opposite socio-cognitive frames: ‘techno-economic vs. social-ecological’
and ‘regional vs. global’. In-depth interviews with key practitioners
in the Dutch biofuels field support these finding and provide
additional insights with regard to (a) perceived shifts in media
coverage; (b) cognitive pluralism; (c) the politics involved;
and (d) resistance in practice.
keywords: Biofuels; Resistance; Discourse analysis』
1. Introduction
2. Resistance to sustainable energy technologies
3. Approaches to discourse
4. Methods and data
4.1. Text analysis
4.2. Interviews
5. Results
5.1. Analysis of frequencies
5.2. Co-word maps
5.3. Thematic cluster analysis 1: context of media discourse
5.4. Thematic cluster analysis 2: factorial axes as underlying
structure of the media discourse
5.5. Interviews
5.5.1. Perceived shifts in biofuel media coverage
5.5.2. Cognitive pluralism
5.5.3. Politics involved
5.5.4. Resistance in practice
6. Discussion
7. Conclusions
References
Textbox 1-Biofuel policy in the Netherlands 1990-2008