Green Capitalism, Sustainability, and Everyday Practice

Gäbler, Karsten

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“…A pesar de las condiciones de aislamiento y distanciamiento, los distintos integrantes del activismo cultural en las tres ciudades lograron recuperar los conocimientos y competencias propios de su habitus de activismo. Durante un tiempo previo habían logrado construir un espacio de socialización y una estructura estable que les permitió consolidar sus redes y madurar su capital social (Alam et al, 2019;Gäbler, 2015). Contaban, además, con una trayectoria de participación que les permitió desarrollar una disposición para la acción colectiva (Searle-Chatterjee, 1999), un habitus que se manifestaba en toda su radicalidad al enfrentarse a la pandemia y a la violencia criminal.…”

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Arte, violencia y Covid-19. Resistencia creativa, habitus radical y campo de activismo cultural

Guerra

2022

Rev. Temas Socio

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En base a un estudio de caso en la región de Tierra Caliente, México, el artículo analiza las estrategias del activismo cultural para responder a contextos de violencia criminal y de pandemia por covid-19. El artículo hace dos contribuciones: empíricamente, aporta información relevante para la literatura sobre activismo cultural y, conceptualmente, el estudio abreva en la teoría de campos para mirar la acción colectiva en tiempos de crisis.

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Arte, violencia y Covid-19. Resistencia creativa, habitus radical y campo de activismo cultural

Guerra

2022

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“…However, this twin process – declining top‐down “government” and the spread of environmental policy “governance” – has developed in a very particular politico‐economic context. The decades since “sustainable development” came to the fore have been characterised by distinctly neoliberal policy approaches (Pellizzoni, ), substantially incorporating contemporary environmental policy into a market‐driven vision of green capitalism (Gäbler, ). This neoliberalism has led to the prominence of particular perspectives on how best to enact eco‐social policies; namely, behavioural, cognitivistic, and individualistic perspectives drawing primarily from disciplinary strains of economics and psychology (Spaargaren, ).…”

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Policy, polycentrism, and practice: Governance imaginaries in sustainability transitions

Smith

2019

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Funding informationMasaryk University, Postdoc@MUNI (Grant / Award Number: CZ.02.2.69/0.0/ 0.0/16_027/ 0008360).This paper foregrounds the under-theorised figure of the policy maker in the environmental social sciences. To do so, it focuses on the case of "social practice theory" (SPT), a school of thought which has gained prominence in human geography and further afield in recent years. The paper outlines the context of environmental policy literatures and identifies a tension in many treatments of the topic by practice-oriented scholars: while it focuses on emergent social change, the traditional policy imaginary which has circulated in this literature often portrays benign, top-down policy makers who, given adequate information, are amenable to conducting the right policy "intervention." A "governance on the inside" approach is proposed as an alternative imaginary, drawing from prominent work on polycentric governance and community economies in geographical and economic scholarship, as well as more recent work in SPT itself. Opportunities for a geographical mapping of policy difference and reflexive engagement are highlighted, hinting at rich future possibilities.diverse economies, governance, participation, policy, polycentrism, social practice theory 1 | INTRODUCTION This paper examines the performative implications of scholarly imaginaries around policynamely, who is conceived as a policy maker and how policy-driven social change is deemed to occurexploring how current perspectives in this area can obscure, promote, or hold back exploration of environmental governance alternatives. It constitutes a provocation to think seriously about policy relevance and policy makers, given the sometimes under-specified usage of such terms among researchers searching for policy "impact." Social Practice Theory (SPT), which examines how the rise of particular configurations of practices result in (un)sustainable societies, provides a case study for how social scientists conceive of policy and environmental interventions. The relevance of SPT stems from both its recent prominence and expansion in the social sciences, andmore importantlythe critical stance of SPT scholarship towards hegemonic concepts in environmental policy-making. While immediate generalisation from SPT to the wider environmental transitions literature and beyond is not appropriate, there are certainly lessons to be gleaned from it.The paper proceeds as follows. Section 2 outlines the context for environmental policy amid a narrowing of policy questions in a neoliberal milieu. In this section, a useful (albeit imperfect) distinction emerges between "policy" and "government," on the one hand, and "governance," on the other. Rather than repeat the theoretical foundations of SPT at length (see instead Everts et al., 2011), section 3 more closely examines paradigmatic treatments of policy in SPT scholarship. A tension is noted, whereby, contrary to the focus of SPT on emergent social change, the predominant circulating imaginary ---

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“…To achieve this fundamental target, it is necessary to introduce into our daily manufacturing, consuming and scientific lives the concept of sustainability [24,25]. This means that we do need to use natural resources in order to reasonably satisfy the necessities of human beings, but without compromising the availabilities of those resources for future generations [26,27]. This goal cannot be achieved by only thinking about the profit of manufacturing processes, but by also considering the environmental, economic and social impacts.…”

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Sustainability Indicators for Materials and Processes

Erto

2023

Sustainability

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The concept of sustainability is nowadays employed to compare manufacturing processes or to define the correct path for material selection. Sometimes, this concept is only partially defined, including just low costs, profit maximization and/or CO2 emission reduction. Actually, a process or material can be defined as sustainable only if an objective function related to the economic, environmental and social impacts is simultaneously maximized. To this aim, it is necessary to define appropriate and specific sustainability indicators (i.e., values related to the economic, social and environmental aspects of a process or material under analysis). These indicators come about from simple calculations, and they are defined in terms of percentages and represented and compared using radar diagrams. Then, a process or specific material is identified by an objective function (i.e., the area included by the polygon that links the scores reported on the diagram). The scope of this representation of data is to individuate the major weaknesses of the process/material, proposing methods of optimization and trying to maximize the objective function in the retrieved diagram. This work aims to propose a general and simple method to calculate sustainability indicators on the basis of specific definitions related to a given process/material. To highlight the potential of this calculation and comparison instrument, two case studies are proposed: the first aims at comparing processes for the production of energy, while the second aims at driving the choice of manufacturing material. The selected indicators and adopted algorithm allowed for the identification of hydroelectric and eolic as the most sustainable processes for energy production; for materials, the results strictly depended on the assumptions made regarding favorable mechanical properties.

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Green Capitalism, Sustainability, and Everyday Practice

Cited by 14 publications

References 29 publications

Arte, violencia y Covid-19. Resistencia creativa, habitus radical y campo de activismo cultural

Arte, violencia y Covid-19. Resistencia creativa, habitus radical y campo de activismo cultural

Policy, polycentrism, and practice: Governance imaginaries in sustainability transitions

Sustainability Indicators for Materials and Processes

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