Blühdorn, Ingolfur. 2013. The Governance of Unsustainability: Ecology and Democracy beyond the post-democratic turn. Environmental Politics 1 (22): S. 16-36.
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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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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | Environmental Politics |
Citation Index | SSCI |
Language | English |
Title | The Governance of Unsustainability: Ecology and Democracy beyond the post-democratic turn |
Volume | 1 |
Number | 22 |
Year | 2013 |
Page from | 16 |
Page to | 36 |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2013.755005 |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2013.755005 |
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