Critical Environmentalism: Questioning Practices of Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 568
Special Issue Editor
Interests: critical economic, cultural, and environmental geographies; geographies of domination and oppression; geographies of the super-rich; geographical education and professional development; qualitative methods and research ethics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue invites critical cross-disciplinary examination of the perverse and unintended economic, environmental, and resource conservation outcomes of self-sufficiency, sufficiency, and supposedly ‘eco-friendly’ practices.
Each day, individuals, households, universities, local bodies, and national governments are exhorted to be more self-sufficient, to lead lives characterised by sufficiency rather than excess, and to be ‘environmentally sustainable’. Notwithstanding the clear illogicality that many such calls come accompanied by the requirement to buy something, to use something, or to consume something, the adoption—to name a few examples—of domestic solar panels, home batteries, electric cars, and so-called Tiny Homes are hailed as exemplary practices. Yet little critical consideration appears to be given to the long-term and unintended consequences of these practices. In addition to producing complex new questions and dilemmas, the paradoxical outcomes of activities intended to ‘save the planet’ may diminish humanity’s faith in the promise and prospect of overcoming future ecological crises.
This Special Issue comprises papers offering informed critical reflections on ‘taken for granted’ ideas and practices associated with sustainability and ‘sufficiency’. (Self-)sufficiency may certainly be a useful principle for meeting future environmental challenges and overcoming ecological crises but only if the practices we pursue do indeed yield sustainable solutions.
Prof. Dr. Iain Hay
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Critical environmentalism
- Environmental futures
- Political ecology
- Self-sufficiency
- Sufficiency
- Sustainability
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