Outlook and key topics for the construction of critical sustainability sciences
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2024Type
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The unreflective use of a dualist ontology in sustainability science means ignoring that many problems of unsustainable development – such as oppressive private- or state-based forms of capitalism as well unilaterally materialist notions of scientific, technological, and institutional development – are direct expressions of dualist notions of development as well. Critical sustainability sciences must therefore explore processes of labor organization beyond the current forms of capitalist appropriation. Analyzing living labor as an expression of all human creativity – connected to that of the cosmos – remains an unexplored, but highly relevant avenue for the development of critical sustainability sciences. Putting relational ontologies at the center of critical sustainability sciences means advancing old and new, more holistic paradigms of scientific knowledge creation. For instance, facilitating dialogue between agroecology and relational ontologies could enhance the former via engagement with the spiritual dimension, for example, by examining the possible links of agroecology to reincarnation and cosmosophy. Show more
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Critical Sustainability SciencesPages / Article No.
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00002 - ETH Zürich09748 - Jacobi, Johanna / Jacobi, Johanna
09748 - Jacobi, Johanna / Jacobi, Johanna
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Is part of: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/621906
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