The Politics of Unsustainability (eBook, PDF)

Eco-Politics in the Post-Ecologist Era
Redaktion: Bluhdorn, Ingolfur; Welsh, Ian

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Produktbeschreibung

Two decades after its launch by the UN Brundtland Commission, the paradigm of sustainability seems to have reached its limit. The concept might figure ever more prominently in public debate, but the ecological footprint of advanced consumer societies grows ever larger. This volume examines this paradox in the context of a new 'politics of unsustainability'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 215
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317968368
• Artikelnr.: 57100290

Autorenporträt

Ingolfur Blühdorn is Reader in Politics and Political Sociology at the University of Bath, UK. His work connects aspects of political sociology, social theory, eco-political theory and environmental sociology. He has published widely on social movements, Green Parties and processes of societal modernisation. Ian Welsh is Reader in Sociology in the Cardiff School of Social Sciences. He has worked on the interface between science, environment and social movements. His most recent work addresses the social and political implications of complexity theory.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Eco-Politics Beyond the Paradigm of Sustainability: A Conceptual
Framework and Research Agenda 2. Changing Public Discourse on the
Environment: Danish Media Coverage of the Rio and Johannesburg UN Summits
3. Participation and Sustainable Development: The Post-Ecologist
Transformation of Citizen Involvement in Denmark 4. Sustaining the
Unsustainable: Symbolic Politics and the Politics of Simulation 5. Symbolic
Environmental Legislation and Societal Self-Deception 6. Sustainable
Development as Symbolic Commitment: Declaratory Politics and the Seductive
Appeal of Ecological Modernisation in the European Union 7. Dissolving the
Nation: Self-Deception and Symbiotic Inversion in the GM Debate 8. The
Post-Ecologist Condition: Irony as Symptom and Cure 9. In Defence of
Civilisation: Terrorism and Environmental Politics in the 21st Century