Steering clear of politics
Local virtues in Helsinki's design activism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4302013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eeva Berglund (0000-0003-0269-562X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Political Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1073-0451 • E-ISSN: 1073-0451 |
| Publisher | University of Arizona (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2458/v24i1.20893 |
| OpenAlex | W2760228896 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 17 |
Practical projects around the world are exploring and prefiguring ecologically feasible futures. The ideas informing these initiatives are familiar from degrowth discourses. But particularly where activists hail from the professional middle-classes of wealthy cities - architects, designers and other 'creatives' in Helsinki for example - they risk being dismissed by the media as well as by academics as vacuous life-style experimenters. Looking at Finland, the sense that this activity is not truly political or transformative can be further enhanced by activists' own reluctance to enter into explicitly political debate and their preference for discussing futures in the neutral language of science. Connecting today's situation to precursors in the 1960s, however, we can see how these local projects are embedded in local political culture, including a Finnish tendency to play up scientific rationality as a tool for managing collective affairs. This contrast with many other degrowth discourses shows the significance of local histories in influencing the space available for people to work out alternatives to the status quo
Degrowth · Economics · Environmental ethics · Futures contract · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Sociology · Status quo · Sustainability · Transformative learning · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
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Globalization and the erosion of the Nordic model
Do–It–Yourself Urban Design
From alterglobalization to Occupy Wall Street
Capitalism and Degrowth
Visions of the City; Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth-Century Urbanism
Radical, reformist, and garden-variety neoliberal
What is Degrowth? From an Activist Slogan to a Social Movement
Everyday activism and transitions towards post-capitalist worlds
Neoliberalism and the making of food politics in California
Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy
Ecologies of Hope
Struggling for the Right to the (Creative) City in Berlin and Hamburg
Degrowth, anthropology, and activist research
Undoing the Demos
City, Class and Power
Apocalypse Forever
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |