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The Paradox of Green Development : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the European Green Deal with a Specific Focus on Electric Vehicles

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  • Title:
    The Paradox of Green Development : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the European Green Deal with a Specific Focus on Electric Vehicles
  • Author: Rafieefar, Mona
  • Subjects: Environmental Sciences ; Miljövetenskap
  • Description: Electric vehicles are central to sustainability policy solutions in the European Union (EU). In policy documents published by the European Commission (EC), a transition to electric vehicles is supported by sociotechnical imaginaries of energy efficiency, economic growth, and environmental protection. The construction of these sociotechnical imaginaries in the EU is framed by the discourse of ecological modernization that aims at reconciliation of economic growth and ecological sustainability. I examine this construction of sociotechnical imaginaries that places the transition to electric vehicles at the center of EU environmental policy documents. In this thesis the trajectory of ecological modernization discourse in the EU and thus the construction of sociotechnical imaginaries is traced using a critical discourse analysis of policy documents published by the European Commission. The analysis centers on the European Green Deal (EGD) published by the EC in December 2019, as well as three other relevant policy documents published by the EC with a specific focus on electric vehicles. Using critical discourse analysis, the thesis shows that EC promotes electric vehicles as a contributor to economic growth, increased energy efficiency, and an ecologically more sustainable mode of travelling. However, this overlooks shortcoming of battery-driven vehicles, including massive extraction of lithium with social and environmental problems, often in distant places, and the emissions from the construction process. The EC furthermore uses specific key words and set phrases that validate its traditional structures of market-based capitalism, thus sidelining or “off-staging” more radical changes of social and environmental relations to handle ecological crises, including ideas of de-growth. More generally, the thesis shows how the continuation of the rhetoric of ecological modernization construct socio-technical imaginaries that are explicit enough to be taken seriously but implicit enough to be open to interpretations which allows the imaginaries to be desirable to avoid conflicts.
  • Publisher: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper
  • Creation Date: 2022
  • Language: English
  • Source: Uppsala University DiVA
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