Ecological modernization from the actor's perspective

Spatio-temporality in the narratives about socio-ecological conflicts in Chile

Bibliographic Data

ID5128689
AuthorsFernando Campos-Medina (0000-0002-7772-3544, Universidad de La Frontera, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume28
Issue3
Pages1239-1271
Publication date2019-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x17752284
OpenAlexW2784734094
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited37

Studies on ecological modernization have produced a fruitful discussion concerning the connection between society and nature based on the evolution of socio-political institutions. However, the question from the individual's perspective and their evaluation of the environmental institutions' modernization remains unsystematically explored. This paper introduces the actor's narratives on what I called time and space restructuration to define a sensitive method to explore the socio-ecological controversies produced by the enactment of a new environmental institution at the national level. The paper reconstructs the social discourse in relation to the exponential growth of Chilean extractive industries, which run in parallel with the government's intent to ensure high levels of sustainability through institutional changes that occurred between 1990 and 2015. The main argument proposes that rendering the ecological modernization as a final stage of institutional improvement obscures a controversial reorganization of actions and roles at the environmental level. From this perspective, the clash between different organizations of time and space at the environmental level, among different social actors, offers a valid perspective on the re-emergence of socio-ecological conflicts

Ecological modernization · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Modernization theory · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Temporality · Humanities and Social Sciences · Law · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology

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