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  • "The biggest challenge is that we have to tell people how to sort" [Elektronski vir] : waste management and the processes of negotiation of environmental citizenship in Slovenia
    Olofsson, Jennie
    This article departs from the concept of environmental citizenship. Focus is on the experiences of representatives for Slovenian municipal waste management companies and business sector service ... companies engaged in the collection and recycling of electronic waste, and their attempts to increase the amount of separately collected municipal waste. They do so by engaging the Slovenian citizens to undertake separate sorting. Theoretically, the focus is on the processes of negotiating citizen engagement and, more specifically, attempts to incentivise the separate sorting of municipal waste which, it is argued, also helps foster the image of a particular kind of citizen. This article understands the informants' experiences as being intimately linked to, and constitutive of, contemporary waste management discourses where attention is increasingly paid to the activities and behaviours of individual citizens. Noteworthy, while the concept of environmental citizenship can be said to allow citizens to practise sustainability (a concept that is otherwise seemingly quite abstract), the waste management policies of today seem to be increasingly relying on this active citizenship. It is at the intersection of these phenomenon that the negotiation practices of Slovenian waste management authorities happen.
    Source: Journal of environmental policy & planning [Elektronski vir]. - ISSN 1522-7200 (Vol. 22, no. 2, 2020, str. 256-267)
    Type of material - e-article
    Publish date - 2020
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 36596317

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    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1523908X.2020.1721274
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