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FOCUS: The Marketization of Environmental Concerns
2026 (48) Issue 1

Social expectations surrounding environmentally responsible behavior lead more and more corporations to display their sustainability efforts. While social and political theory has engaged intensively with conceptual and normative debates regarding environmental challenges and climate politics in recent years, there are still relatively few systematic and interdisciplinary inquiries of the marketization of environmental concerns. Only a few social and political theorists have started to identify forms of deceptive or ideological green communication. However, further critical inquiry is needed to address additional questions surrounding the marketization of environmental concerns. These include issues of democratic agency and free speech, the distribution of individual and collective responsibility, and the ways in which current sustainability debates may continue to reinforce capitalist interests.

Analyse & Kritik welcomes submissions that explore normative, empirical, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of green communication or the marketization of environmental concerns.The deadline for submitting papers of 8000 words is 1 September 2026. To submit your paper, please send a word file to the journal editors via jculp@aup.edu and leist@philos.uzh.ch.