The Forest Kingdom – with what values for the world? Climate change and gender equality in a contested forest policy context
The Forest Kingdom – with what values for the world? Climate change and gender equality in a contested forest policy context
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森林王国——在有争议的森林政策背景下，气候变化和性别平等对世界有什么价值？
DOI：
10.1080/02827581.2014.1002216
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
S. Arora‐Jonsson
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作者：
S. Holmgren;S. Arora‐Jonsson
在本文中，我们探讨了瑞典政府对森林部门的愿景：森林王国-为世界带来价值，于2011年推出。我们利用气候变化和两性平等问题来展示支撑最近这一森林政策倡议的隐含“价值观”。借鉴新制度主义，批判性话语理论和性别作为一个分析范畴，我们概念化的价值观作为重要的治理机制介导的话语。我们分析森林王国的关键文件，沿着新闻稿，政府法案和报告，并直接关注问题陈述和主题立场（身份提供）。我们的研究结果表明，气候变化是如何转化为一个商业机会和手段，以确保整个瑞典的增长和就业。妇女被视为与林业需求有关的潜在雇员和积极的森林所有者，而不是参与森林决策的积极公民。因此，气候变化和性别不平等从政治领域转移到经济领域，与工业需求、私人森林所有权和利润而不是公共和集体决策联系在一起。支撑这些表述的价值观是经济增长、个人主义和对市场的信心。对生产的强调与以前的森林政策没有什么不同，在1993年以前，森林政策主要是以木材生产为导向。
In this paper we explore the Swedish Government's vision for the forest sector: The Forest Kingdom – with values for the world, launched in 2011. We use the issues of climate change and gender equality to demonstrate implicit “values” that underpin this recent forest policy initiative. Drawing on new institutionalism, critical discourse theory and gender as an analytical category, we conceptualise values as important governance mechanisms mediated through discourse. We analyse key documents of the Forest Kingdom, along with press releases, governmental bills and reports and direct attention to problem representations and subject positions (identity offerings) produced. Our findings demonstrate how climate change is turned into a business opportunity and a means to secure growth and employment throughout Sweden. Women are represented as potential employees and active forest owners connected to the needs of the industry, rather than as active citizens involved in forest policy-making. Climate change and gender inequality are thereby displaced from the political to an economic sphere, linked to industrial needs, private forest ownership and profit rather than to public and collective decision-making. Values underpinning these representations are economic growth, individualism and faith in markets. The emphasis on production is not dissimilar from previous forest policies, which until 1993 primarily were oriented towards timber production.