Sustainability Beyond Technology

Philosophy, Critique, and Implications for Human Organization
Herausgeber: Heikkurinen, Pasi; Ruuska, Toni

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Current debates on sustainability are building on a problematic assumption that technological advancement is a desired phenomenon, creating positive change in human organizations. This transdisciplinary book develops a new way to conceptualize and examine technology, and outlines feasible alternatives for sustainability beyond technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9780198864929
• ISBN-10: 0198864922
• Artikelnr.: 60743550

Autorenporträt

Pasi Heikkurinen is Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Helsinki, Visiting Lecturer in Business and Sustainable Change at the University of Leeds, and Adjunct Professor in Sustainability and Organizations at Aalto University School of Business. He is the co-editor of Strongly Sustainable Societies: Organising Human Activities on a Hot and Full Earth (Routledge, 2019) (together with Professor Karl Johan Bonnedahl) and editor of Sustainability and Peaceful Coexistence for the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017). His research has been published in the leading journals in the field of sustainable organizations, including Business Strategy and the Environment; Ecological Economics; Environment and Planning; Journal of Business Ethics; and Organization & Environment. Toni Ruuska is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Reproduction Revisited: Capitalism, Higher Education and Ecological Crisis (MayFly, 2018). His research has been published in leading journals in the field of sustainable organizations, including Ecological Economics; Philosophy of Management; Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization; Journal of Cleaner Production, and Sustainability.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Toni Ruuska and Pasi Heikkurinen: Technology and Sustainability:
An Introduction
* Part I. Conceptualizing Technology
* 2: Thomas Wallgren and Niklas Toivakainen: The Question of
Technology: From Noise to Reflection
* 3: Andreas Roos: Earthing Philosophy of Technology: A Case for
Ontological Materialism
* 4: Pasi Heikkurinen: Atechnological Experience Unfolding: Meaning for
the Post-Anthropocene
* Part II. Confronting Technology
* 5: Jani Pulkki and Veli-Matti Värri: Competition Within Technology: A
Study on Competitive Thought and Moral Growth
* 6: Toni Ruuska: Conditions for Alienation: Technological Development
and Capital Accumulation
* 7: Tere Vadén: What Does Fossil Energy tell us About Technology?
* 8: Alf Hornborg: Reversing the Industrial Revolution: Theorizing the
Distributive Dimensions of Energy Transitions
* Part III. Changing Technology
* 9: Karl Johan Bonnedahl: An Economy Beyond Instrumental Rationality
* 10: Iana Nesterova: Small, Local, and Low-Tech Firm Firms as Agents
of Sustainable Change
* 11: David Skrbina and Renee Kordie: Creative Reconstruction of the
Technological Society: A Path to Sustainability
* 12: Pasi Heikkurinen and Toni Ruuska: Technology and Sustainability:
A Conclusion