净零转型中的“欧洲石油之都”:阿伯丁郡报纸的语料库语言学分析

IF 3.6 2区 社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Karolina Trdlicova
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有“欧洲石油之都”之称的阿伯丁市设定了到2045年温室气体净零排放的目标。历史上,这座城市一直受益于并依赖于石油和天然气工业及其在北海的存在,特别是在就业机会方面。与此同时,在第六次碳预算中,气候变化委员会表示,逐步淘汰化石燃料对于实现英国2050年净零排放目标至关重要。在2022年苏格兰民族党大会上,当时的首席大臣尼古拉·斯特金建议阿伯丁应该成为“世界净零资本”。这引发了这样一个问题:在一个经济和身份与化石燃料行业密切相关的地方,这种能源转型将会是什么样子?我对阿伯丁郡的报纸(N = 3508)进行了语料库语言学分析,仅以关键词“净零”为样本;并使用批判性话语分析(CDA)将研究结果置于更广泛的经济、政策和社会背景中。这表明,到目前为止,当地媒体对净零转型的叙述绝大多数集中在石油和天然气行业,这比其他能源技术或转型的其他方面被提及的次数要多得多。这种对油气行业的狭隘关注表明,该地区缺乏公开讨论的未来愿景,如果阿伯丁的身份真的要从“欧洲石油之都”重新定义为“世界净零资本”,那么摆在面前的挑战范围将会很大。
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The ‘oil capital of Europe’ in the net zero transition: A corpus linguistics analysis of Aberdeenshire newspapers
The City of Aberdeen, bearing the moniker ‘oil capital of Europe’, has set a 2045 net zero greenhouse gas emissions target. The city has historically benefited from and depended on the oil and gas industry and its presence in the North Sea, especially for employment opportunities. Meanwhile, in The Sixth Carbon Budget, the Climate Change Committee has stated that a fossil fuel phase-out is essential to meet the UK's net zero 2050 target. At the 2022 SNP Conference the then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon suggested that Aberdeen should become ‘the net zero capital of the world’. This prompts the question of what this energy transition will look like in a place, whose economy and identity are so closely tied to the fossil fuel industry. I conducted a corpus linguistic analysis of Aberdeenshire newspapers (N = 3508), sampled only by the keyword ‘net zero’; and used critical discourse analysis (CDA) to contextualise the findings within the broader economic, policy and social contexts. This showed that the narrative of the net zero transition presented in the local media thus far is overwhelmingly focused on the oil and gas industry, which is mentioned significantly more than other energy technologies or other aspects of the transitions. This narrow focus on the oil and gas sector suggests an absence of a publicly discussed future vision for the region, highlighting the scope of the challenge that lies ahead if Aberdeen's identity is truly to be redefined from ‘oil capital of Europe’ to ‘net zero capital of the world’.
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