How do you encourage such values in a tertiary education system which has spent many years applying and rewarding a 'respond to the market' discourse?
Since consumption is mainly driven by symbolic value, advertising, and the hegemony of market discourse rather than the instrumental value of products, consumption is further promoted by intensified competition among merchants.
A predominant market discourse related to shortages of HHR outweighed discussions of human rights and ethical approaches to recruitment policy and action that consider global health impacts.
The policy discussions brought forward connected and intersecting themes which we characterized as two major discourses: a market-based discourse that focused on market responses to labour shortage, and an ethical discourse that included discussion of human rights and matters of 'legality', and 'criminality'criminality
This is both because the projects would be less interesting to investors, which would weaken the network of a community initiative, and because the market-oriented discourse might leave less room for non-profit considerations in the communities in general.
Hence the various heavy-handed attempts to guide the market: suppressing discourse that negatively affects financial confidence, embellishing official statistics to report "healthy GDP growth of seven percent," and, for all of our enjoyment, having foreigners sing and dance in their underwear.
Characterised by underpinning market rationalisation discourses, policies to date have overall failed to deliver significant reductions in energy demand.
Even the language of marketing pollutes the discourse surrounding these issues.
"In Europe and America, there is a balance between the market and artistic discourse, art critics and noncommercial spaces," Mr. Harsono said.
