scholarly journals The Crossfire Rhetoric. Success in Danger vs. Unsustainable Growth. Analysis of Tourism Stakeholders’ Narratives in the Spanish Press (2008–2019)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9127
Author(s):  
María Velasco González ◽  
José M. Ruano
Keyword(s):  
Growth Analysis ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Policy Alternatives ◽  
The Media ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Spanish Press ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework ◽  
First Time

Tourism has always stood out in terms of economic opportunities and personal enjoyment. However, the problem of overtourism has emerged in recent years in urban contexts of cities with diversified economies. Overtourism has become—to a much greater extent than any other variable challenging the sustainability of the tourism model—an object of public debate and the media reflect this debate, which, in the case of Spain, is concentrated in the term “tourismphobia.” This paper aims to analyse the two main opposing narratives reflected in the Spanish media on the emergence of the problem of tourismphobia and that defined what was happening to influence both public opinion and public policymakers themselves. The methodological approach used is the narrative policy framework (NPF), which considers public policies as a social construct, shaped by particular ideologies, values, and worldviews that are structured in narratives. The conclusions point to the fact that even though the “success in danger” narrative was the winner, for the first time the sustainability of the country’s tourism model is being broadly questioned and by very diverse actors. It is also clear that in order to change the trajectory of consolidated tourism policies, it is necessary to build tangible public policy alternatives that can be articulated and implemented by public actors. Based on the findings of the paper, future lines of research could use the “Narrative Policy Framework” for the analysis of sustainable tourism policies or for the study of overtourism in different countries from a comparative perspective.

scholarly journals Drumming the Barrels of Hope? Bioeconomy Narratives in the Media

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juha Peltomaa
Keyword(s):  
Policy Framework ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Path Dependencies ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
Policy Fields ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework ◽  
Mode Of Production

Bioeconomy as one mode of the transition towards a more sustainable mode of production and consumption has been addressed in several policy fields. Bioeconomy has raised hope not only in the quest for a more sustainable future, but also offers new possibilities, especially in countries with vast natural resources. By using the Narrative Policy Framework, I assess the kinds of bioeconomy narratives promoted by the media and the future they suggest, for the case of Finland. Flexible concepts such as bioeconomy can be harnessed to promote different, and even contrasting, objectives. Besides growth-oriented promises, bioeconomy seems to simultaneously raise controversial questions related to techno-social path dependencies and the sustainability of natural resource use. The narratives seem also to lack roles for certain actor groups, such as citizens, which might challenge the legitimacy and, thus, the future of bioeconomy. The role of civil society should also be better addressed by scholars in the field, as it plays an important role in the sustainability of bioeconomy.

Science, stories and the anti-vaccination movement

Human Affairs ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Veselková
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Policy Narratives ◽  
Science Stories ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Mandatory Vaccination ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework ◽  
Positivist Approach

AbstractThis paper discusses the theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the use or non-use of expert-based information in policy-making. Special attention is paid to the Narrative Policy Framework introduced by Jones & McBeth in 2010. This theory of the policy process adopts a quantitative, structuralist and positivist approach to the study of policy narratives. The Narrative Policy Framework is useful for the analysis of the use of expert-based information to resolve so-called wicked problems, which are characterized by intense value-based conflict between policy coalitions. The methodological approach of the Narrative Policy Framework is illustrated using the policy issue of mandatory vaccination.

Failing to Perform Citizenship: Daily Narratives About Stockholm’s ‘vulnerable EU citizens’

2021 ◽  
pp. 136078042199483
Author(s):  
Magdalena Mostowska
Keyword(s):  
Extreme Temperature ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Cold Weather ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Just Society ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework ◽  
Overt Form

The question of mobile Roma beggars in Europe has been analysed in terms of securitization, racialization, and deportability. These people have been hailed as ‘abject’ or ‘failed’ citizens, the problem of race being made largely invisible. In the Swedish context, the category of race does not emerge in overt form, and Swedes generally imagine themselves to be an egalitarian and just society. However, in Stockholm, in 2015, the unprecedented visibility of rough sleeping EU-migrants turned daily chance meetings tasks into ‘ethical encounters’. Using the concept of enacting citizenship and the Narrative Policy Framework, this article analyses day-to-day narratives about ‘vulnerable EU citizens’ constructed by the media and experts in the winter of 2015 in Stockholm. Most press narratives would silence the voices of migrants, framing them as passive victims, their problem being defined in terms of extreme temperature, thus making cold weather the principle villain. With regard to acts of citizenship, the paper analyses expert opinions on the migrants’ performance. Their stories and discourse reveal the image of a ‘vulnerable EU citizen’: one of a passive, begging, distressingly visible individual who is failing to perform citizenship. This shortcoming is regarded here as contributing to the justification of a wider policy framework in which the migrants’ claims are seen as unfounded and undeserved, while their attitude is viewed as unappreciative, although they would allegedly not be racialized as a group.

scholarly journals A Narrative Policy Framework Solution to Understanding Climate Change Framing Research

10.15788/npf9 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Allen Wolters ◽  
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Michael D. Jones ◽  
Kathryn Duvall ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Research Utilization ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Vast Array ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework ◽  
First Time ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

The climate change framing literature is vast. So much so that researchers—whether seasoned framing scholars or those foraying into climate change framing research for the first time—can easily be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of studies, the vast array of concepts deployed, the variation in how these same concepts are operationalized, the nuance of a barely numerable assortment of contexts, and the effects all of the aforementioned have on interpreting findings. Here we offer a synthetic review of said literature, focusing on adaptation and mitigation framing studies and findings. In so doing, we first briefly distill the overall developmental arc of climate change framing research. We then provide a conventionally styled thematic overview of the mitigation and adaptation climate change studies. Among other conclusions, we find that while there has been a proliferation of climate change framing research, the findings and the studies themselves are often quite disparate from one another. Moreover, as the literature speaks to itself intermittently and in an ad hoc fashion, it is not readily apparent how climate change framing studies holistically fit together. As a solution to this problem, we offer the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) as a narrative heuristic to help climate change researchers and communicators organize and understand the literature. We argue that an NPF integration of this inherently unwieldy literature increases the likelihood of research utilization and improves the ability of climate change communicators to inform people about the risks of climate change.

Between entrepreneurs and workers: Cleavages and compromises in rationales and policy solutions regarding ‘dependent contractors’

2021 ◽  
pp. 0143831X2110303
Author(s):  
Louis Florin ◽  
François Pichault
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework ◽  
Policy Solutions ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Labour Regulation

The emergence of dependent contractors challenges the existing institutions regarding social protection and labour regulation. This article aims at identifying the political narratives that explain the emergence of New Forms of Employment (NFE) and dependent contracting along with the policy solutions proposed by the social partners at the EU and international level. By analysing policy documents from the social partners through the lens of a qualitative version of the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), the authors indentify two distinct narratives – ‘devaluation of work’ and ‘entrepreneurship and flexibility’. The authors show how these rationales lead to various policy solutions and identify oppositions and possible compromise.

scholarly journals The Narrative Policy Framework: child or monster?

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Jones ◽  
Claudio M. Radaelli
Keyword(s):  
Policy Framework ◽  
Narrative Policy Framework

The prince and the pauper: Journalistic culture and Paralympic games in the Spanish print press

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 1713-1729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josep Solves ◽  
Sebastián Sánchez ◽  
Inmaculada Rius
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
The Media ◽  
Spanish Press ◽  
Motor Sports ◽  
Paralympic Games ◽  
The Olympic Games

The Paralympic Games are one of the world’s most important multisport events, maybe second only to the Olympic Games. However, research conducted to date shows that the media do not devote as much space to them as would accordingly be expected. This article proposes, through a case study, a new way of approaching this hypothetical discrimination by comparing the attention that the London Paralympic Games received from the Spanish print press with the attention that other sports received (football, basketball, tennis, cycling, motor sports and other minority sports) while those Games were being held. The main finding of our study is that over the period analysed, the Spanish press devoted less space to the Paralympic Games than to any other sport.

scholarly journals Learners’ anxiety in audiographic conferences: a discursive psychology approach to emotion talk

ReCALL ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz de los Arcos ◽  
James A. Coleman ◽  
Regine Hampel
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Computer Assisted Language Learning ◽  
Discursive Psychology ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Learner Beliefs ◽  
Negative Feelings

AbstractSuccess and failure in language learning are partly determined by the learners’ ability to regulate their emotions. Negative feelings are more likely to frustrate progress, while positive ones make the task of learning a second language (L2) a more effective experience. To date no significant body of research has been carried out into the role of anxiety in the field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL). The present study adopts discursive psychology (DP) as its methodological approach to examine anxiety not as a psychological state, but as a social construct in the context of an audiographic conferencing tool. After interviewing a sample of learners of Spanish at the Open University (OU), our findings reveal a strong connection between emotion and learner beliefs.

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