Abstract (eng)
Rise of globalized institutions and globalized approaches could be observed in many spheres, including environmental domain. Countries are being unified today under the slogan to contribute to sustainable prosperity of our society under the considerations on the environment. In so doing, many local environmental issues are being presented as problems of one unified system, and therefore are framed as of global significance, requiring collective responsibility.
With the help of a discourse analytical approach, I aim to show how the image of the Aral Sea as a global issue is discursively created, and that specific storylines are created and get activated to transform the Aral Sea shrinkage from local environmental problem into global political issue. Basing upon three online newspapers, Uzbek, Russian and British, this thesis aims to show argumentative storylines characteristic for each of the sources. A particular interest of mine is to see how is knowledge attached to this environmental issue (re)constructed in the process of communication in these sources. Taking a co-productionist idiom is essential to understanding environmental governance, while framing theory allows to see how various elements of a discourse are differently created in three analyzed sources.