Invitation
Our approach in this edited volume is to examine the broader domains of institutions and their effort to legitimise public reforms.
We consider the role of six broad legitimation categories. We deploy Laudato Si’ as religious publication that offers a different perspective to legitimating public reforms because it addresses concerns that fall into the different domains.
We would like to make explicit via our research how and why different communication approaches allow for reforms to be envisaged by the public as relevant and necessary.
Research Domains
1. The Cosmological
2. The Moral
3. The Teleological
4. The Historical
5 The Ontological
6. The Epistemological
Institutions and Environmental Sustainability – Understanding and Legitimation in the Papal Encyclical Laudato Si’
Series Title: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
At the centre of this book is the study of how institutions communicate their intentions for public reforms before various private and public stakeholders.
We examine legitimation as a process that matters for how propositions are accepted, neglected, negotiated.
Stephanos Avakian
Jessica Imanaka
Contributions to the edited volume.
You are invited to contribute to this edited volume if the field of study inspires your research interests.
Our focus is on how institutions communicate their reforms programmes for change on environmental sustainability.
We are interested in how religious institutions communicate their calls for change. We consider the encyclical Laudato Si’ as a recent, pivotal publication for creating a call to public dialogue.
Our theoretical framework guiding our research is situated in the study of ‘legitimation’.
We consider 6 broad domains under which we seek to study how the encyclical presents to its audience an invitation to change.
