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- MakaleYalnız künye2026Scopus SJRQ2Arctic governance through discourse: Arctic and Arctic council observer states
Limon, Onur; Gürdal Limon, Elif
This article examines how Arctic governance is discursively constituted through national Arctic policy and strategy documents and how these discursive constructions differentiate governance roles between Arctic states and Arctic Council observer states. Rather than treating national strategies as neutral policy instruments, the study conceptualizes them as political texts that articulate authority, responsibility, and legitimacy within an asymmetrical governance system. Methodologically, the article employs qualitative discourse analysis of the most recent official Arctic strategies of eight Arctic states and twelve observer states. Using MAXQDA (version 24), the analysis is organized around six thematic domains: security policy; climate change and environment; international cooperation; resource management; Indigenous peoples and rights; and economic development and sustainability. The findings reveal a high degree of discursive convergence across both actor groups, particularly around climate change, sustainability, environmental protection, and cooperation. However, this convergence does not indicate substantive policy alignment or egalitarian governance. Arctic states frame governance through narratives of sovereignty, stewardship, and regulatory responsibility, while observer states construct legitimacy through scientific contribution, multilateralism, and normative alignment. The article argues that discursive convergence can function as a kind of governance infrastructure that enables participation while tending to stabilize asymmetrical authority.
- MakaleYalnız künye2013Media Representation of Leisure Time Activities from a Social Gender Axis
Toruk, Ibrahim; Güran, Salih; Sine, Rengim
In present-day societies, the notion of leisure time can be considered in quite different meanings. An emerging prominent meaning of interest would deal with leisure time as a space of consumption. Numerous studies have explored the notion in relation to different factors. This study deals with the topic of leisure time in relation to social gender patterns of consumption by means of a discourse analysis conducted on two magazines for men and women respectively. The results showed that in both magazines, the identities of women were constructed through the codes of a male-dominated discourse and were idealized by images that comply with the viewpoint of men.
