An Apparatus of Answers? Ecologism as Ideology in the 21st Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6308022 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy W Luke (0000-0002-7211-5064, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 487-498 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-3148 • E-ISSN: 1469-9931 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07393140903322562 |
| OpenAlex | W2085784812 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article examines how far we are, individually and collectively, from “the end of ideology” by mapping how “green living,” after the time when ideology allegedly “ended,” now becomes that political point where ecology can morph into “the ideology of ends.” As popular enthusiasm for realizing green moral and political ends builds, many are turning “ecological” values, thoughts, and practices into an apparatus of answers for the conduct of their everyday life. By transforming such Earth-centered programs for valorizing, thinking, and doing various human activities, proponents of “ecologism” become advocates of representing the Earth as an apparatus of answers on how to live in “the present.” Such seemingly significant markers for ethical guidance in ecologism are then adopted as cohesive clusters of political responses to pressing contemporary social necessities. Once endorsed as such, one supposedly can discover paths to a “sustainable society.” Sustainability’s questionable existence or ultimate attainment is rarely doubted, because of the awe with which this apparatus of answers from ecologism is regarded as a changing face of ideology in the 21st century
Enthusiasm · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2013 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |