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Tolba, Mostafa K.; El-Kholy, Osama A.

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-2280-1_12

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“…International institutions also played a more active role in promoting sustainable development. From 1974 to 1992, the United Nations alone sponsored 16 multinational conferences related to some aspects of sustainable development, according to the World Development Report 1972(Tolba and El-Kholy 1992. Moreover, non-governmental organizations drafted 37 strategic plans to deal with the effects of environmental degradation (1992, Box 2, 753-754).…”

Section: Policy Promotion 1970-1987mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The core assumption of mediating ecological interests with regulated capitalist production remained, but as more and more actors entered the debate, the idea of sustainability took a human development overtone that was missing in the earlier years. By 1987, social well-being was conceived to be dependent upon ecological balance, whereas during the early 1970s the focus of analysis was technology (see Tolba and El-Kholy 1992).…”

Section: Policy Promotion 1970-1987mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social networks and the institutionalization of the idea of sustainable development

Pumar

2005

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Progress, then, is a kind of collective thinking, which lacks a brain of its own, but which is made possible, thanks to imitation, by the solidarity of the brains of numerous scholars and inventors who interchange their successive discoveries.Gabriel Tarde (1969, 179) Recently there has been a resurgence in the study of how ideas shape policies (see Bockman and Eyal [2002] and Fourcade-Gourinchas and Babb [2002] for two different views.) Two perspectives which dominate this literature are what Habermas has called the empirical-analytical tradition and historical-hermeneutic tradition (1968). These two epistemological positions represent contrasting views. They depict very different pictures of how ideas sway popular values and the policy choices confronted by policymakers. Each also raises important questions about how the processes of knowledge formation and promotion unfold and what actors play a dominant role in furthering these developments.This paper focuses on the formation and institutionalization of mainstream sustainable development knowledge. It puts forward a model of how development ideas are formulated and, later, become ingrained. The process of knowledge formation proposed here begins with a historical and constructive interpretation of the diffusion and institutionalization of development ideas (Latour and Woolgar 1986;Knorr-Cetina 1981). A key assertion derived from this model is that knowledge evolves in dynamic and interrelated phases, propelled by ties among an elite core of intellectuals who form a network. As ideas move from conceptualization to institutionalization, the composition of these networks changes. Intellectual experts progressively relinquish their claims or are pushed aside by members of a more powerful clique of public intellectuals (Jacoby 2000). Making the transition from the academy to the public sphere is an important precondition for ideas to take hold and be established as part of policy paradigms. Thus, one of the implications of this study is that, while many ideas are generated among academ-

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Section: Policy Promotion 1970-1987mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Policy Promotion 1970-1987mentioning

confidence: 99%