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The Politics Of Unsustainability
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Author : Ingolfur Bluhdorn
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
The Politics Of Unsustainability written by Ingolfur Bluhdorn and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Political Science categories.
Two decades after its launch by the UN Brundtland Commission, the paradigm of sustainability seems to have reached its limits. Whilst the concept figures more prominently in public debate and policy making than ever before, the ecological footprint of advanced liberal consumer societies continues to grow, and the forceful economic development of countries such as China and India reinforces concerns that the world is moving further away from, rather than closer towards the ideal of sustainability. Given the proven failure of ecological modernisation strategies to secure sustainability, the traditional question "How may our established lifestyles and socio-economic practices be made more sustainable?" needs to be supplemented by a second, equally important, question: "How do advanced modern consumer democracies try and manage to sustain what is known to be unsustainable?" Put differently, traditional research into the politics of sustainability needs to be supplemented by a new line of research into the politics of unsustainability. Exploring the recent transformation of eco-political discourses and a variety of ways in which the unfolding paradox of sustaining the unsustainable is being managed, the present volume pioneers this new research agenda. This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.
The Politics Of Actually Existing Unsustainability
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Author : John Barry
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-23
The Politics Of Actually Existing Unsustainability written by John Barry and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-23 with Political Science categories.
At the level of developing a progressive and critical theoretical understanding of unsustainability, it argues for the importance of integrating vulnerability, which has been largely neglected by both mainstream western political theory and analyses of the current global ecological crisis. It suggests that valuable insights into the causes of and alternatives to unsustainability can be found in a critical embracing of human vulnerability and dependency as both constitutive and ineliminable aspects of what it means to be human. Rather than seeing invulnerability as the appropriate response, the book defends resilience, and the ability to 'cope with' rather than 'solve' vulnerability, as more productive.
Special Issue The Politics Of Unsustainability
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Author : Ingolfur Blühdorn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Special Issue The Politics Of Unsustainability written by Ingolfur Blühdorn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Post Ecologist Politics
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Author : Ingolfur Blühdorn
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Post Ecologist Politics written by Ingolfur Blühdorn and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Political Science categories.
Since the late 1980s, ecological thought and the European eco-movement have gone through a phase of fundamental transformation which has been widely acknowledged but not yet theorised in any satisfactory way. This important text questions why radical ecological criticism has had so little impact on contemporary society, despite the urgency of the issues it highlights. The book offers a challenging theoretical critique of ecological thought itself.
The Politics Of Unsustainability
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Author : Ingolfur Bluhdorn
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
The Politics Of Unsustainability written by Ingolfur Bluhdorn and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Political Science categories.
Two decades after its launch by the UN Brundtland Commission, the paradigm of sustainability seems to have reached its limits. Whilst the concept figures more prominently in public debate and policy making than ever before, the ecological footprint of advanced liberal consumer societies continues to grow, and the forceful economic development of countries such as China and India reinforces concerns that the world is moving further away from, rather than closer towards the ideal of sustainability. Given the proven failure of ecological modernisation strategies to secure sustainability, the traditional question "How may our established lifestyles and socio-economic practices be made more sustainable?" needs to be supplemented by a second, equally important, question: "How do advanced modern consumer democracies try and manage to sustain what is known to be unsustainable?" Put differently, traditional research into the politics of sustainability needs to be supplemented by a new line of research into the politics of unsustainability. Exploring the recent transformation of eco-political discourses and a variety of ways in which the unfolding paradox of sustaining the unsustainable is being managed, the present volume pioneers this new research agenda. This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.
The Changing Face Of Hegemony And The Politics Of Unsustainability
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Author : Janice Harvey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Changing Face Of Hegemony And The Politics Of Unsustainability written by Janice Harvey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Editorials categories.
The purpose of this research is to gain a deeper understanding of pathological failure of highly developed nations to meaningfully confront the ecological challenge of the 21st century. Ingolfur Blühdorn theorizes that this ongoing political failure reflects a paradigmatic shift in the cultural-historical context within which eco-politics are played out, a transformation he labels the ‘post-ecologist turn.' He posits that the 1970s cultural zeitgeist, which embodied egalitarianism, ecological rationality, and socio-cultural integrity, has been exhausted as a plausible alternative construct to inspire environmental politics, undermined by a hyper-materialist cultural turn. This has given rise to a ‘politics of unsustainability,’ in which the seriousness of the eco-crisis is acknowledged, while at the same time, the systems that have produced the crisis are fiercely and unconditionally defended; in other words, politics is preoccupied with 'sustaining the unsustainable.' This dissertation investigates the plausibility of the theory of post-ecologism as the condition of particular historical-political processes in the Canadian context. Informed by a neo-Gramscian political theory of discourse, I employ a critical discourse-historical methodology in analysing the trajectory of eco-political discourse in The Globe and Mail editorials over a 56-year period, from 1960 to 2016. This paper was chosen because of its status as the national newspaper of record for political, business and intellectual elites across the political spectrum; therefore, its editorial position contributes to the hegemonic voice on public affairs. In the first half of the study period, the establishment paper strongly supported an aggressive environmental agenda. A clear and relatively abrupt shift in discourse occurs between 1987 and 1992, consistent with the hegemonization of neoliberalism throughout Western democracies. Editorial framing aligns with Blühdorn’s characterization of the post-ecologist turn, revealing that Blühdorn’s theory of a post-ecologist politics of unsustainability is plausible in the Canadian context, and has some explanatory power regarding the widespread failure to deal with the eco-climate crisis.
Freedom And Environment
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Author : Michael Hannis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-05
Freedom And Environment written by Michael Hannis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with Political Science categories.
Must freedom be sacrificed to achieve ecological sustainability - or vice versa? Can we be genuinely free and live in sustainable societies? This book argues that we can, if we recognise and celebrate our ecological embeddedness, rather than seeking to transcend it. But this does not mean freedom can simply be redefined to fit within ecological limits. Addressing current unsustainability will involve significant restrictions, and hence will require political justification, not just scientific evidence. Drawing on material from perfectionist liberalism, capabilities approaches, human rights, relational ethics and virtue theory, Michael Hannis explores the relationship between freedom and sustainability, considering how each contributes to human flourishing. He argues that a substantive and ecologically literate conception of human flourishing can underpin both capability-based environmental rights and a eudaimonist ecological virtue ethics. With such a foundation in place, public authorities can act both to facilitate ecological virtue, and to remove structural incentives to ecological vice. Freedom and Environment is a lucid addition to existing literature in environmental politics and virtue ethics, and will be an excellent resource to those studying debates about freedom with debates about ecological sustainability.
The Oxford Handbook Of Environmental Political Theory
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Author : Teena Gabrielson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-07
The Oxford Handbook Of Environmental Political Theory written by Teena Gabrielson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-07 with Political Science categories.
Set at the intersection of political theory and environmental politics, yet with broad engagement across the environmental social sciences and humanities, The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, defines, illustrates, and challenges the field of environmental political theory (EPT). Featuring contributions from distinguished political scientists working in this field, this volume addresses canonical theorists and contemporary environmental problems with a diversity of theoretical approaches. The initial volume focuses on EPT as a field of inquiry, engaging both traditions of political thought and the academy. In the second section, the handbook explores conceptualizations of nature and the environment, as well as the nature of political subjects, communities, and boundaries within our environments. A third section addresses the values that motivate environmental theorists—including justice, responsibility, rights, limits, and flourishing—and the potential conflicts that can emerge within, between, and against these ideals. The final section examines the primary structures that constrain or enable the achievement of environmental ends, as well as theorizations of environmental movements, citizenship, and the potential for on-going environmental action and change.
Unsustainable Inequalities
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Author : Lucas Chancel
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-06
Unsustainable Inequalities written by Lucas Chancel and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with Business & Economics categories.
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A hardheaded book that confronts and outlines possible solutions to a seemingly intractable problem: that helping the poor often hurts the environment, and vice versa. Can we fight poverty and inequality while protecting the environment? The challenges are obvious. To rise out of poverty is to consume more resources, almost by definition. And many measures to combat pollution lead to job losses and higher prices that mainly hurt the poor. In Unsustainable Inequalities, economist Lucas Chancel confronts these difficulties head-on, arguing that the goals of social justice and a greener world can be compatible, but that progress requires substantial changes in public policy. Chancel begins by reviewing the problems. Human actions have put the natural world under unprecedented pressure. The poor are least to blame but suffer the most—forced to live with pollutants that the polluters themselves pay to avoid. But Chancel shows that policy pioneers worldwide are charting a way forward. Building on their success, governments and other large-scale organizations must start by doing much more simply to measure and map environmental inequalities. We need to break down the walls between traditional social policy and environmental protection—making sure, for example, that the poor benefit most from carbon taxes. And we need much better coordination between the center, where policies are set, and local authorities on the front lines of deprivation and contamination. A rare work that combines the quantitative skills of an economist with the argumentative rigor of a philosopher, Unsustainable Inequalities shows that there is still hope for solving even seemingly intractable social problems.
Unsustainable
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Author : Joy, Richard
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2021-10-13
Unsustainable written by Joy, Richard and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-13 with Political Science categories.
This book is an urgent call to reimagine our social, political and economic systems so that we might transform to a sustainable society. It considers whether an alternative economic model is possible and examines the factors needed to enable such a transition to occur. The scale and pace of change is unprecedented and the author examines the actions that have to be taken by governments, business and individuals if we are to address the environmental disaster that confronts us. Much needs to change but ultimately, this is a book of hope, believing that evolution to a better, more sustainable society is possible.