The governance of unsustainability: ecology and democracy after the post-democratic turn

被引:123
作者
Bluehdorn, Ingolfur [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bath, Dept Polit Languages & Int Studies, Bath BA2 7AY, Avon, England
关键词
post-ecologism; post-democracy; politics of unsustainability; politics of simulation; governance; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; LEGA-NORD; JOHANNESBURG;
D O I
10.1080/09644016.2013.755005
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Starting from the diagnosis of a profound reconfiguration since the second half of the 1980s of the normative foundations of contemporary eco-political discourses, the theory of post-ecologist politics has conceptualised eco-politics in advanced modern consumer societies as the politics of unsustainability. How the politics of unsustainability is organised and executed in practical terms is explored and the theory of post-ecologist politics is extended to suggest that, in the wake of a modernisation-induced post-democratic turn, democratic values and the innovative modes of decentralised, participatory government which, up to the present, are widely hailed as the key towards a genuinely legitimate, effective and efficient environmental policy are metamorphosing into tools for managing the condition of sustained ecological and social unsustainability. Analysis of this governance of unsustainability reveals a new twist in the notoriously difficult relationship between democracy and ecology.
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