Mines, environment, questions, and disagreements: An analysis of the Turów coal mine disputes

ONDRÁČEK, Tomáš, Paweł ŁUPKOWSKI and Mariusz URBAŃSKI. Mines, environment, questions, and disagreements: An analysis of the Turów coal mine disputes. Discourse & Society. 2024. ISSN 0957-9265. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09579265241247284.

Basic information

• Original name: Mines, environment, questions, and disagreements: An analysis of the Turów coal mine disputes
• Authors: ONDRÁČEK, Tomáš, Paweł ŁUPKOWSKI and Mariusz URBAŃSKI.
• Edition: Discourse & Society, 2024, 0957-9265.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50204 Business and management
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 2.200 in 2022
• Organization unit: Faculty of Economics and Administration
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09579265241247284
• UT WoS: 001208520100001
• Keywords in English: models of discussion; multidimensional approach; deep disagreement; topicality; linguistic feeders; non-linguistic feeders
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

This is a story of costs of 114 million EUR incurred by stubbornness and unwillingness to cooperate, or, in other words, by sticking to dead ends in discussions where parties disagree strongly enough that they cannot find common ground. This paper proposes an approach to analyzing such cases of disagreement by employing a multidimensional model involving deontic, ontological, and ethical axes. We use an example of the Turów coal mine disputes, which, from March 2020 to February 2022, involved the governments of the Republic of Poland, the Czech Republic, and the European Court of Justice. Our model results in a tree-like structure of the consecutive issues being considered, represented by questions, governed by the dependency between questions and external actions and events related to the dispute. We aim to provide a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics and resolution paths in such complex disagreements.