Book contents
- Sustainability Transformations
- Series page
- Sustainability Transformations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I Making Sense of Transformations
- 1 How Do We Change the World?
- 2 Sense-Making Analysis
- 3 How Societies Change
- Part II Varieties of Transformations to Sustainability
- Part III Manoeuvring in a Multi-transformational World
- References
- Index
2 - Sense-Making Analysis
from Part I - Making Sense of Transformations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2019
Book contents
- Sustainability Transformations
- Series page
- Sustainability Transformations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I Making Sense of Transformations
- 1 How Do We Change the World?
- 2 Sense-Making Analysis
- 3 How Societies Change
- Part II Varieties of Transformations to Sustainability
- Part III Manoeuvring in a Multi-transformational World
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 2 – Sense-making analysis – discusses the study’s theoretical and methodological foundations from the perspective of dialogical communication theory and the literature on sense-making resources. The chapter discusses the roles of narratives, framing, categorization and metaphors in sense-making. The book’s different empirical materials are described: peer reviewed research literature, policy documents, international media texts and focus group interviews.
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- Sustainability TransformationsAgents and Drivers across Societies, pp. 10 - 21Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019