A critical assessment of environmental policy studies - Towards a discursive analysis and critique of the ideology of policy

• Main Author: Jorge Gabriel Foa Torres
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Pelotas 2011-12-01
• Series: Pensamento Plural
• Subjects: environmental public policy; discourse; the political; ideology
• Online Access: http://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/index.php/pensamentoplural/article/viewFile/3629/2965

This paper seeks, from a critical evaluation of a range of environmental public policy studies, to question their most important theoretical assumptions, in order to propose and put the focus of discourse analysis and ideology critique of policies. Faced with perspectives that emphasize the management function of the state, intends to focus on discursive and ideological conditions that make possible the stabilization and political transformation of those social practices related to the formulation and implementation of environmental policies.