Sustainability, Wellbeing and the Posthuman Turn

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-319-94077-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 93 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 258 g

This book examines how the way we conceive of, or measure, the environment changes the way we interact with it. Thomas Smith posits that environmentalism and sustainable development have become increasingly post-political, characterised by abstraction, and quantification to an unprecedented extent. As such, the book argues that our ways of measuring both the environment, such as through sustainability metrics like footprints and Payments for Ecosystem Services, and society, through gross domestic product and wellbeing measures, play a constitutive and problematic role in how we conceive of ourselves in the world. Subsequently, as the quantified environmental approach drives a dualistic wedge between the human and non-human realms, in its final section the book puts forward recent developments in new materialism and feminist ethics of care as providing practical ways of re-founding sustainable development in a way that firmly acknowledges human-ecological relations. This book willbe an invaluable reference for scholars and students in the fields of human geography, political ecology, and environmental sociology.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Thomas S. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 – The New Sustainable Development Agenda: An Introduction to Measurement and Conceptualisation.- Chapter 2 – The Abstraction of Nature and the Death of Environmental Politics: Our Calculable Earth.- Chapter 3 – Our Calculable Selves: The rise and hegemony of wellbeing discourse.- Chapter 4 – Ecological Ethics of Care and the Multiple Self: Revisiting the roots of environmentalism.

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas S.J. Smith received his PhD from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Environmental Studies at Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and an editor at the Dark Mountain Project, an environmental literary initiative which gathers writers, poets, and artists who are interested in challenging the conventional narratives of civilisation.