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Rhetorics of environmental routinisation in one Australian company's annual reports

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posted on 2023-05-16, 14:47 authored by Hanson, DJ, White, RD
Environmentalism is increasingly routinised and institutionalised in Australia. In this paper we focus on one Australian company, Amcor, that operated in the heavily disputed industry of forestry, and examine how it presented its environmental reporting throughout the period of those processes. We use content-analysis to show that Amcor appeared to track the salience of environmentalism as a political issue, and then use rhetorics of 'good news, 'retroscription' and 'we know best' to show its rhetorical moves. As more and more Australians are exposed to the market, through private shareownership or through superannuation, such corporate rhetoric becomes increasingly important as a site for sociopolitical action and study.

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Publication title

Australian Journal of Social Issues

Volume

38

Issue

4

Pagination

477-493

ISSN

0157-6321

Department/School

TSBE

Publisher

Australian Council of Social Service

Place of publication

Camberra ACT

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