Politics of scarcity: Energy crisis and discursive practices in wartime France (1914–1918)

IF 7.4 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-18 DOI:10.1016/j.erss.2026.104604

Marcela Hennlichová , Markéta Votoupalová , Klára Lancová

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Abstract

This interdisciplinary study focuses on propagandist discourse that encompasses the public communication of governmental energy-saving measures as well as their presentation, framing, discursive practices, and argumentation strategies, which we refer to as the Politics of Scarcity. We analyse this discourse within a selected case study of wartime France in 1914–1918, using a unique set of primary sources, including public media, an official brochure, propaganda posters and a selected subjective war account. While employing the discursive approach developed by van Dijk, our findings suggest that the principal communicative strategies of the Politics of Scarcity in wartime France include reducing the government's discursive prominence and employing socially divisive language that emphasises ingroup and outgroup membership (constructing ‘self’ and ‘the other’) in ideologically motivated communication.

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稀缺政治：战时法国的能源危机与话语实践（1914-1918）

这项跨学科研究的重点是宣传话语，包括政府节能措施的公共传播，以及它们的呈现、框架、话语实践和论证策略，我们称之为稀缺政治。我们在1914-1918年战时法国的选定案例研究中分析了这一话语，使用了一套独特的主要来源，包括公共媒体，官方小册子，宣传海报和选定的主观战争帐户。在采用van Dijk开发的话语方法的同时，我们的研究结果表明，战时法国稀缺政治的主要交际策略包括减少政府话语的突出地位，并在意识形态动机的交流中使用强调群体内和群体外成员（构建“自我”和“他者”）的社会分裂语言。

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Energy Research & Social Science ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

14.00

自引率

16.40%

发文量

441

审稿时长

55 days

期刊介绍： Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles examining the relationship between energy systems and society. ERSS covers a range of topics revolving around the intersection of energy technologies, fuels, and resources on one side and social processes and influences - including communities of energy users, people affected by energy production, social institutions, customs, traditions, behaviors, and policies - on the other. Put another way, ERSS investigates the social system surrounding energy technology and hardware. ERSS is relevant for energy practitioners, researchers interested in the social aspects of energy production or use, and policymakers. Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) provides an interdisciplinary forum to discuss how social and technical issues related to energy production and consumption interact. Energy production, distribution, and consumption all have both technical and human components, and the latter involves the human causes and consequences of energy-related activities and processes as well as social structures that shape how people interact with energy systems. Energy analysis, therefore, needs to look beyond the dimensions of technology and economics to include these social and human elements.