RT Article
T1 Cooling discourses, agnosis and environmental harm
JF Crime, media, culture
VO 18
IS 1
SP 70
OP 84
A1 Monod de Froideville, Sarah
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1836935366
AB Critical scholars consider a lack of action around issues of environmental harm a ?product of persuasion? by way of various forms of denial, downplay and spin on behalf of elite parties invested in maintaining a neo-liberal social and economic status quo. This paper introduces to this body of work the concept of ?cooling discourses? in relation to two cases of environmental harm in the New Zealand (NZ) context. Cooling discourses are employed to settle concerns about harmful activity that are gathering momentum through acknowledging the harm and appearing to address the activity in some manner. Cooling discourses are temporary stupefying discourses that facilitate a state of ignorance, or agnosis so that harmful activity can continue or resume unopposed.
K1 Agnosis
K1 cooling discourses
K1 Denial
K1 Environmental harm
K1 inaction
DO 10.1177/1741659020973723