Highways to Silence Revisited: A History of Discourse Coalitions around Traffic Noise
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the density of road traffic in the Global North decreased considerably. For those enjoying the resulting tranquillity, it prompted the hope that this experience would raise public noise awareness and alter mobility culture. Now that Global North economies are returning...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2024-01-01
|
| Series: | Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://arbor.revistas.csic.es/index.php/arbor/article/view/2573 |
| _version_ | 1797351467751833600 |
|---|---|
| author | Karin Bijsterveld Harro van Lente |
| author_facet | Karin Bijsterveld Harro van Lente |
| author_sort | Karin Bijsterveld |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description |
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the density of road traffic in the Global North decreased considerably. For those enjoying the resulting tranquillity, it prompted the hope that this experience would raise public noise awareness and alter mobility culture. Now that Global North economies are returning to pre-pandemic levels, however, not much appears to have changed. This article aims to contribute to understanding the persistence of the status quo by historically tracing discourse coalitions around traffic noise in the twentieth and early twenty-first century. Discourse coalitions are connections between groups of actors that have opposing interests but share a specific set of storylines concerning a public problem. As we will show by focusing on the issue of traffic noise in the Netherlands, the long-term results of these discourse coalitions -in terms of discourse structuration, institutionalization and destabilization- tend to shift attention away from structural interventions in traffic flows.
|
| first_indexed | 2024-03-08T13:00:53Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-fdc08963b1184fda8c60ddafb53e824f |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 0210-1963 1988-303X |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-03-08T13:00:53Z |
| publishDate | 2024-01-01 |
| publisher | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura |
| spelling | doaj.art-fdc08963b1184fda8c60ddafb53e824f2024-01-19T08:36:50ZengConsejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasArbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura0210-19631988-303X2024-01-0119981010.3989/arbor.2023.810005Highways to Silence Revisited: A History of Discourse Coalitions around Traffic NoiseKarin Bijsterveld0Harro van Lente1Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Maastricht UniversityFaculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Maastricht University During the Covid-19 pandemic, the density of road traffic in the Global North decreased considerably. For those enjoying the resulting tranquillity, it prompted the hope that this experience would raise public noise awareness and alter mobility culture. Now that Global North economies are returning to pre-pandemic levels, however, not much appears to have changed. This article aims to contribute to understanding the persistence of the status quo by historically tracing discourse coalitions around traffic noise in the twentieth and early twenty-first century. Discourse coalitions are connections between groups of actors that have opposing interests but share a specific set of storylines concerning a public problem. As we will show by focusing on the issue of traffic noise in the Netherlands, the long-term results of these discourse coalitions -in terms of discourse structuration, institutionalization and destabilization- tend to shift attention away from structural interventions in traffic flows. https://arbor.revistas.csic.es/index.php/arbor/article/view/2573Traffic noisepandemic tranquillitydiscourse coalitionsdiscourse structuration and institutionalizationthe Netherlands |
| spellingShingle | Karin Bijsterveld Harro van Lente Highways to Silence Revisited: A History of Discourse Coalitions around Traffic Noise Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura Traffic noise pandemic tranquillity discourse coalitions discourse structuration and institutionalization the Netherlands |
| title | Highways to Silence Revisited: A History of Discourse Coalitions around Traffic Noise |
| title_full | Highways to Silence Revisited: A History of Discourse Coalitions around Traffic Noise |
| title_fullStr | Highways to Silence Revisited: A History of Discourse Coalitions around Traffic Noise |
| title_full_unstemmed | Highways to Silence Revisited: A History of Discourse Coalitions around Traffic Noise |
| title_short | Highways to Silence Revisited: A History of Discourse Coalitions around Traffic Noise |
| title_sort | highways to silence revisited a history of discourse coalitions around traffic noise |
| topic | Traffic noise pandemic tranquillity discourse coalitions discourse structuration and institutionalization the Netherlands |
| url | https://arbor.revistas.csic.es/index.php/arbor/article/view/2573 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT karinbijsterveld highwaystosilencerevisitedahistoryofdiscoursecoalitionsaroundtrafficnoise AT harrovanlente highwaystosilencerevisitedahistoryofdiscoursecoalitionsaroundtrafficnoise |