Re-visioning the GeoCapabilities project through the lens of critical realism with a focus on sustainable global citizenship

Abstract

This article argues that the GeoCapabilities project should be rethought using the philosophy of critical realism. This would resolve issues that some of the project’s main actors regard as outstanding and shed new light on capabilities that are best met in a degrowth society where all actors fulfil their roles as sustainable global citizens. Doughnut economics and the foundational economy offer bridges to degrowth while new insights into the dimensions of sustainable global citizenship offer new pedagogical approaches to global citizenship education that complement those based on agonistic pedagogy. In conclusion the article suggests that the key priority for such education, whether delivered via geography, environmental education, or otherwise, is that it is founded on a critically realist philosophy of knowledge.

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