TY - JOUR
T1 - Eco-politics Beyond the Paradigm of Sustainability: A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda
AU - Blühdorn, Ingolfur
AU - Welsh, Ian
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This contribution sketches a conceptual framework for the analysis of the post-ecologist era and outlines a research agenda for investigating its politics of unsustainability. The article suggests that this new era and its particular mode of eco-politics necessitate a new environmental sociology. Following a review of some achievements and limitations of the paradigm of sustainability, the concept of post-ecologism is related to existing discourses of the 'end of nature', the 'green backlash' and the 'death of environmentalism'. The shifting terrain of eco-politics in the late-modern condition is mapped and an eco-sociological research programme outlined centring on the post-ecologist question: How do advanced modern capitalist consumer democracies try and manage to sustain what is known to be unsustainable?
AB - This contribution sketches a conceptual framework for the analysis of the post-ecologist era and outlines a research agenda for investigating its politics of unsustainability. The article suggests that this new era and its particular mode of eco-politics necessitate a new environmental sociology. Following a review of some achievements and limitations of the paradigm of sustainability, the concept of post-ecologism is related to existing discourses of the 'end of nature', the 'green backlash' and the 'death of environmentalism'. The shifting terrain of eco-politics in the late-modern condition is mapped and an eco-sociological research programme outlined centring on the post-ecologist question: How do advanced modern capitalist consumer democracies try and manage to sustain what is known to be unsustainable?
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644010701211650
U2 - 10.1080/09644010701211650
DO - 10.1080/09644010701211650
M3 - Article
SN - 0964-4016
VL - 16
SP - 185
EP - 205
JO - Environmental Politics
JF - Environmental Politics
IS - 2
ER -