This chapter sets out to explore tensions between bottom-up and top-down processes
from a governmentality perspective. Using a discourse studies approach,
we investigate how forms of public participation in a local climate mitigation
project can be viewed as an instance of governmentality in the… read more
This paper takes its starting point in the problem faced by a specific Danish bank that women are grossly underrepresented in management positions, in spite of the great measure of initiatives taken over more than a century to ensure equal opportunities in Denmark. Danish women got the vote in 1915. read more
In technical discourse, the majority of texts are found to be accessible only to a specialist audience, and the feeling is prevalent with some technical genres that they would lose their generic integrity if part of their complexity was removed, since such a change would jeopardize the… read more