dc.contributor.convenor | Malcolm Alexander | |
dc.contributor.author | Howes, Michael | |
dc.contributor.editor | Malcolm Alexander | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14T01:29:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-06-14T01:29:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002 | |
dc.date.modified | 2007-03-11T22:03:50Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/9118 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Internet is playing an increasingly significant role in the politics of environmental risk:
pressures groups are now using homepages and e-mail as part of their normal campaigning,
businesses are developing on-line marketing strategies, and states are increasingly trying to
use the web as a tool of governance. One of the manifestations of these developments has
been the creation of on-line pollution inventories that require polluting firms to publicly
disclose their annual emissions on state controlled web sites. The idea is that the fear of
negative publicity and protest will goad firms into reducing the level of environmental risk
they create. This approach therefore has a significant impact on the Internet strategies of all
three players: business, pressure groups and the state. This paper considers how to interpret
these inventories by comparing explanations that can be generated using Foucault’s concept
of governmentality and Beck’s notion reflexive modernisation. Examples are taken from
Australia, the USA and UK. Overall it is argued that while both approaches offer an engaging
description of responses to environmental risk, reflexivity also offers an embryonic praxis. | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | International Socioligical Association | |
dc.publisher.place | Brisbane | |
dc.publisher.uri | https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/ | |
dc.relation.ispartofconferencename | XV World Congress of Sociology | |
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitle | The Social World in the 21st Century: Ambivalent Legacies and Rising Challenges | |
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom | 2002-07-07 | |
dc.relation.ispartofdateto | 2002-07-13 | |
dc.relation.ispartoflocation | Brisbane | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 369999 | |
dc.title | Reflexivity or Governmentality? The Curious Case of On-line Pollution Inventories | |
dc.type | Conference output | |
dc.type.description | E2 - Conferences (Non Refereed) | |
dc.type.code | E - Conference Publications | |
dc.description.version | Version of Record (VoR) | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Sciences, Griffith School of Environment | |
gro.rights.copyright | © The Author(s) 2002. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this conference please refer to the conference’s website or contact the author(s). | |
gro.date.issued | 2002 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Howes, Michael J. | |