Abstract
This contribution sketches a conceptual framework for the analysis of the post-ecologist era and outlines a research agenda for investigating its politics of unsustainability. The article suggests that this new era and its particular mode of eco-politics necessitate a new environmental sociology. Following a review of some achievements and limitations of the paradigm of sustainability, the concept of post-ecologism is related to existing discourses of the 'end of nature', the 'green backlash' and the 'death of environmentalism'. The shifting terrain of eco-politics in the late-modern condition is mapped and an eco-sociological research programme outlined centring on the post-ecologist question: How do advanced modern capitalist consumer democracies try and manage to sustain what is known to be unsustainable?
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 185 - 205 |
| Journal | Environmental Politics |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 16 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)
- 105904 Environmental research