CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Tarsoly, Blanka |
|---|---|
| Title | The East-West divide in European climate change mitigation: liminal identities and discursive construction |
| Summary | This thesis investigates the East–West divide the EU’s decarbonization space. By mobilizing liminality and adopting a postcolonialist and poststructuralist lens, it explores how policy experts and Hungarian media outlets position Eastern Europe within the hierarchy of Europe, both in term of identities and knowledge. Drawing on semi-structured expert interviews and an argumentative discourse analysis (ADA) of two Hungarian media outlets, I show that while some policy actors often downplay intra-EU divisions, the difference is discursively salient. Both analyzed media outlets, in different ways, but nevertheless reproduce the East–West hierarchy in discussing various visions for climate change mitigation. The findings suggest that decarbonization approaches carry discursive patterns about who belongs to the EU and on what terms, and that media play a crucial role in shaping who gets to define legitimate climate futures. |
| Supervisor | Antypas Alexios |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/tarsoly_blanka.pdf |
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