Autore
Lockie, Stewart

Titolo
Sustainability and a Sociology of Monsters
Periodico
Sociologica
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 16 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 0

Sustainability is constructed both symbolically and materially. It mediates human relationshipswith external nature and, in so doing, escapes human control; transforming people,ecosystems and economies. Beyond principles of intra- and inter-generational equity, sustainabilitydemands learning, deliberation and accountability. Sustainability offers sociologists a uniqueopportunity to contribute to decision-making forums from which we may otherwise have beenexcluded. Our research has highlighted numerous ways in which those who ostensibly speakon behalf of sustainability do so in ways that seek to contain it. The market-based focus, inparticular, of eco-efficiency initiatives has attracted critique for its "black boxing" of people,ecologies and values that lie outside privileged commodity circuits. The foundations providedby sustainability principles and standards have thus become essential reference points for thoseseeking to ensure that non-market values are considered and given voice in the regulation ofcommodity circuits. Anticipating and assembling future social-ecological possibilities requiresus to intensify and to extend critique in a manner that supports social learning and deliberation,empowering constituencies for sustainability beyond the commodity circuits of "big capital".



SICI: 1971-8853(2012)16:2<0:SAAS O>2.0.ZU;2-U
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