The Journal of Public Interest Communications
Temporal Misrecognition
Environmental governance decisions are inherently communicative, shaping how risks, responsibilities and public interests are defined and justified. This paper examines how future generations are recognized within environmental governance, using Western Australia as an empirical case. Drawing on recognition theory, climate ethics and public interest communications scholarship, it conceptualizes their exclusion as temporal misrecognition: acknowledgement without meaningful standing in decision-making. Analysis of En …