Blühdorn, Ingolfur. 2014. Post-ecologist Governmentality: Post-democracy, Post-politics and the Politics of Unsustainability. In: The Post-Political and its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics, Hrsg. Erik Swyngedouw / Japhy Wilson, S. 146-166. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
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International climate and sustainability politics seem inescapably locked into a technocratic politics of unsustainability. This chapter explores what the literature on post-democracy and post-politics contributes to a more detailed understanding of this politics of unsustainability. It develops the notions of post-democracy and post-politics in a way that moves beyond existing work in the post- or neo-Marxist tradition. A brief account of the perspective that views contemporary eco-politics as a neo-liberal ploy is followed by the analysis of an emancipatory shift in social values and culture that has, arguably, given rise to a new eco-political governmentality. Today’s post-democratic and post-political politics of unsustainability is then interpreted as the product of this new governmentality. Thus, the diagnosed lock-in can no longer be seen exclusively as the result of ideological neo-liberalism but is, at least partially, also the outcome of an emancipatory process.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Chapter in edited volume |
Language | English |
Title | Post-ecologist Governmentality: Post-democracy, Post-politics and the Politics of Unsustainability |
Title of whole publication | The Post-Political and its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticisation, Spectres of Radical Politics |
Editor | Erik Swyngedouw / Japhy Wilson |
Page from | 146 |
Page to | 166 |
Location | Edinburgh |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Year | 2014 |
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- Blühdorn, Ingolfur (Details)
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- Institute for Social Change and Sustainability IN (Details)
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- 5108 Political theory (Details)