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A Discursive Perspective On China's Global Politics Of Climate Change, 1992–2013, Yi-Tsui Tseng
A Discursive Perspective On China's Global Politics Of Climate Change, 1992–2013, Yi-Tsui Tseng
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This dissertation investigates China’s recent shift in its climate change policy with a refined discourse approach. Methodologically, by adopting a neo-Gramscian notion of hegemony, a generative definition of discourse and an ontological pluralist position, the study constructs a theoretical framework named “discursive hegemony” that identifies the “social forces” for enabling social change and focuses on the role of discursive mechanisms via which the forces operate and produce effects.
The key empirical finding of this study was that it was a co-evolution of conditions that shaped the outcome as China’s climate policy shift. In examining the case, a before-after within-case comparison …