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Sustainability and the future: reflections on the ethical and political significance of sustainability
Sustainability Science, Volume: 14, Issue: 4, Pages: 915 - 924
Swansea University Author:
Chris Groves
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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s11625-019-00700-0
Abstract
Historically, concepts of sustainability have been articulated in response to a perceived crisis within modernist narratives about progress. As such, they are not just environmental concepts, but ethical and political ones. At the same time, they have often been accused of being too wedded to many o...
| Published in: | Sustainability Science |
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| ISSN: | 1862-4065 1862-4057 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2017
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66352 |
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Historically, concepts of sustainability have been articulated in response to a perceived crisis within modernist narratives about progress. As such, they are not just environmental concepts, but ethical and political ones. At the same time, they have often been accused of being too wedded to many of the same assumptions as these central narratives of modernity, and indeed inviting the hubristic mistakes of modernity to be resurrected in the form of pretentions to global stewardship or ‘managing the planet’. I respond to some recent critiques of key conceptual elements encountered within sustainability narratives by articulating an approach to imagining sustainability that draws on D. W. Winnicott’s concept of the ‘holding environment’, and which acknowledges the otherness of the future and of nature, while also affirming responsibilities towards both. |
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| Keywords: |
Sustainability; Futures; Alterity; Care; Attachment |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Issue: |
4 |
| Start Page: |
915 |
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924 |