Ethical Banks between Moral Self-commitment and Economic Expansion

Lenz, Sarah; Neckel, Sighard

doi:10.1108/s0733-558x20190000063015

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“…In such attempts to combine economy and ecology, however, there is always the danger that this will be at the expense of ecology: if more and more banks, investors and rating agencies specify what sustainability means, it threatens to erode its principles (cf. Lenz and Neckel, 2019). The insight that this promotes social divisions – First World vs.…”

Section: Trajectories Of Sustainability and Their Structures Practices And Imaginariesmentioning

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Futures of sustainability: Trajectories and conflicts

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Neckel

2021

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The increased awareness of the exploitation of resources, as well as the negative ecological consequences of the modern way of life, has made sustainability a central guiding concept of social change in the 21st century. Sustainability has taken the form of a largely undisputed normative model of development, behind which, however, very different conceptions of the future are concealed: from the attempt to initiate a major socio-ecological transformation, through modernization processes, to control practices in a state of emergency. This special issue aims at these practices but is not primarily concerned with sustainability as a normative guiding idea that can just be pursued. However, a sociology of sustainability has to ask which conflictual spaces of possibility for socioeconomic change open up when very different ideas of a sustainable future are in conflict with each other. Three ideal-typical trajectories or futures of sustainability emerge, which can be theoretically grasped with the terms modernization, transformation and control. These three concepts of a sustainable future can also be found in the ambivalent imaginations, practices and structures of various constellations of actors.

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Futures of sustainability: Trajectories and conflicts

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2021

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“…The three-pillar model, where ecology is equated with the economy and the social, consolidates this idea (Brand, 2011: 61). However, equating economy, ecology and social issues could lead to the following result: only the aspects that are economically profitable are considered sustainable (Lenz and Neckel, 2019). Strong sustainability, conversely, goes beyond the original normative framework of ecological protection measures and resource conservation and instead refers to the need to correct current economic and political growth dynamics as the only solution (Görgen and Wendt, 2015: 6; Ott and Döring, 2008: 320ff; Sarkar, 2001).…”

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“…Sustainability is becoming an essential criterion of economic and corporate efficiency and competitiveness, which is even anchored in the emotional culture or ‘emotionologies’ (Fineman, 2002; Wright and Nyberg, 2012) of business enterprises. At the macro level and in organizational settings, this is reflected in concepts such as ‘green capitalism’ (Mol et al, 2016), ‘ecocapitalsm’ (Hawken et al, 1999) or ‘ethical finance’ (Lenz, 2018; Lenz and Neckel, 2019) that place sustainability at the heart of the renewal of capitalist economies and merely serve to adapt to changing conditions, such as climate change.…”

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Is digitalization a problem solver or a fire accelerator? Situating digital technologies in sustainability discourses

Lenz

2021

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Starting from the framework of the ‘futures of sustainability’ this article asks whether or not digital technologies are discursively framed in such a way that they can offer a solution to socio-ecological problems. The initial observation is that the mediation and interactions of digitalization and sustainability have recently been the subject of political debates. Using the mapping procedure of situational analysis, the discourses around digital technologies as they emerge in the ideal-typical paths of sustainability – modernization, transformation and control – are identified and presented. The results show that similar technologies provoke varying discourses in the three possibility spaces of future sustainability, which can also be attributed to different normative foundations.

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“…Diese Risiken sind wesentlich darin begründet, dass die Gesellschaften der Gegenwart mit der Vernutzung für sie grundlegender Ressourcen konfrontiert sind -seien es die natürlichen Ressourcen des Ökosystems, die ökonomischen Ressourcen gesellschaftlichen Wohlstands, die sozialen Ressourcen von Sorge, Fürsorge und Solidarität oder die subjektiven Ressourcen von beruflicher Leistungsfähigkeit und privater Lebensführung (vgl. Neckel/Wagner 2013;Neckel et al 2017), die heute bisweilen nicht weniger erschöpft zu sein scheinen als die ökologischen Vorräte des Planeten.…”

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“…Zum einen mehren sich die Hinweise, dass durch die steigende Nachfrage nach zwar nachhaltigen, aber zugleich profitablen Investitionen Anreize geschaffen werden, die Kriterien von Nachhaltigkeit aufzuweichen und den Präferenzen von Investoren anzupassen (vgl. Lenz/Neckel 2017). Zudem kann auch in anderen Bereichen festgestellt werden, dass konventionelle Bewertungspraktiken zunehmend Annahmen von finanzialisierten Methoden übernehmen, etwa beim Kreditrating (Besedovsky 2015).…”

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Ethical Banks between Moral Self-commitment and Economic Expansion

Cited by 13 publications

References 23 publications

Futures of sustainability: Trajectories and conflicts

Futures of sustainability: Trajectories and conflicts

Is digitalization a problem solver or a fire accelerator? Situating digital technologies in sustainability discourses

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