Towards eco-social politics
A Case Study of Transformative Strategies to Overcome Forms-of-Life Crises
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4861330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Bärnthaler (0000-0003-3595-2127, Institute for Multi-Level Governance and Development, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 92-113 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644016.2023.2180910 |
| OpenAlex | W4321376037 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article explores the structural conservatism of mainstream environmental politics, which systematically avoids problematising ‘forms-of-life’ (normative practices and routines), and develops a conceptual alternative: eco-social politics. This concept positions itself in a quest to change the grammar of environmental politics by embedding it in the lived materiality of everyday life, but differs from prefigurative movement-oriented strategies by prioritising the integration of majority populations and by acknowledging the role of political rule-setting, i.e. coercion. Building on a multi-level integral state project, eco-social politics resides in particular strategies, procedures, and institutions to collectively (re)negotiate common sense, with the aim to partially and pragmatically suture social relations to find transformative answers to contemporary eco-social crises. Here, I explore potentials for stronger dialectical links between deliberative and representative democratic institutions
Environmental ethics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transformative learning · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Energy social science in a critical conjuncture
Provisioning for sufficiency
The power to transform structures
Conceptualizing supply- and demand-side climate change mitigation
Alternative pathways for green hydrogen economy
Problematising degrowth strategising
Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe
Identifying leverage points in the social housing system
When enough is enough
Time and space for social-ecological transformation
Heat, Greed and Human Need
Promises of the Political
Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations
What is wrong with energy efficiency?
Large inequality in international and intranational energy footprints between income groups and across consumption categories
Liberal Solidarity
The Foundational Economy as a Cornerstone for a Social–Ecological Transformation
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Critique of Forms of Life
Household time use, carbon footprints, and urban form
A tale of three paradigms
Two Scenarios for Sustainable Welfare
State-civil society relations in Gramsci, Poulantzas and Bourdieu
A Polanyi-inspired perspective on social-ecological transformations of cities
Progressive Nostalgia in Novel Living Arrangements
Nature, limits and form-of-life
Unpolitical Democracy
Sustainability as a cultural transformation
Living environmentalisms
Imagination and critique in environmental politics
The environmental state and the glass ceiling of transformation
Great Transformation
Making matter great again? Ecofeminism, new materialism and the everyday turn in environmental politics
The future of 'environmental' policy in the Anthropocene
From postmaterialism to sustainable materialism
Decision, choice, solution
Ecological democracy and the rise and decline of liberal democracy
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |