Taking on Water: A Discourse Analysis of Drinking Water Policy and Practices at the University of Victoria

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dc.contributor.authorBrulotte, Jayna
dc.contributor.supervisorTeghtsoonian, Katherine Anne
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-19T20:38:00Z
dc.date.available2013-04-19T20:38:00Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-04-19
dc.degree.departmentProgram: Studies in Policy and Practiceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, universities, municipalities, and other public and private organizations throughout Canada have banned the sale of bottled water from their facilities. To explore how such bans are linguistically and textually framed, proposed, and debated, this thesis analyzes drinking water policy and practice at the University of Victoria. Using Maarten Hajer’s approach to discourse analysis, discourses, story-lines, and discourse coalitions are identified. Through interviews with key players as well as textual analysis, I identify several discourses being mobilized to discuss drinking water at the University of Victoria, including that drinking water is an environmental issue, a public resource, a human right, a commodity, a health issue, and a revenue issue. The key discourse coalition working to define the issue of drinking water is a student coalition comprising the University of Victoria Sustainability Project and the University of Victoria Students’ Society. This coalition is promoting the argument that the sale of bottled water should be banned on campus.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0630en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0768en_US
dc.description.proquestemailjaynab@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/4535
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectbottled wateren_US
dc.subjectuniversitiesen_US
dc.subjectdiscourse analysisen_US
dc.subjectHajeren_US
dc.subjecthuman rightsen_US
dc.titleTaking on Water: A Discourse Analysis of Drinking Water Policy and Practices at the University of Victoriaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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