State imperatives and hopeful futures in outside lobbying campaigns: A case study on sunsetting industries in Finland

IF 3 3区 管理学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Hanna Lempinen
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The demands for a just and green transition towards more sustainable use of natural resources—both renewable and nonrenewable, living and non-living—are shaping the prospects of local and traditional livelihoods worldwide. While “green” sustainability transitions are expected to create new livelihoods and economies, others are bound to decline or disappear. This article focuses on Finland and its two traditional rural industries—fur farming and peat extraction—whose phase-out is either ongoing or under debate due to various sustainability concerns. Through an analysis of industry lobbying campaigns, I demonstrate how these industries frame themselves as instrumental in fulfilling core state imperatives, including domestic order, external competition, revenue generation, economic growth, legitimation, and environmental conservation. As such, they present themselves as fundamental to the future of the Finnish state, its unique sociocultural characteristics, and its contested welfare society. The article concludes with a discussion on the harmful hopes that these industry lobbying campaigns provoke among both audiences and livelihood practitioners in the face of inevitable sustainability transitions.
外部游说活动中的国家要求和充满希望的未来:芬兰夕阳产业的案例研究
向更可持续地利用自然资源(包括可再生资源和不可再生资源、生物资源和非生物资源)的公正和绿色转型的要求,正在塑造世界各地当地和传统生计的前景。虽然“绿色”可持续转型有望创造新的生计和经济,但其他转型必然会下降或消失。本文主要关注芬兰及其两大传统农村产业——皮毛养殖和泥炭开采——由于各种可持续性问题,这两大产业要么正在逐步淘汰,要么正在争论中。通过对行业游说活动的分析,我展示了这些行业如何将自己定位为实现国家核心要务的工具,包括国内秩序、外部竞争、创收、经济增长、合法化和环境保护。因此,他们将自己呈现为芬兰国家未来的基础,其独特的社会文化特征,以及其有争议的福利社会。文章最后讨论了在面对不可避免的可持续性转型时,这些行业游说活动在受众和生计从业者中引发的有害希望。
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Futures
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期刊介绍: Futures is an international, refereed, multidisciplinary journal concerned with medium and long-term futures of cultures and societies, science and technology, economics and politics, environment and the planet and individuals and humanity. Covering methods and practices of futures studies, the journal seeks to examine possible and alternative futures of all human endeavours. Futures seeks to promote divergent and pluralistic visions, ideas and opinions about the future. The editors do not necessarily agree with the views expressed in the pages of Futures
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