The governance of unsustainability: ecology and democracy after the post-democratic turn
Abstract
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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Ingolfur Blühdorn (2013). The governance of unsustainability: ecology and democracy after the post-democratic turn. Environmental Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2013.755005
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title = {The governance of unsustainability: ecology and democracy after the post-democratic turn},
author = {Blühdorn, Ingolfur},
year = {2013},
journal = {Environmental Politics},
doi = {10.1080/09644016.2013.755005}
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