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Nature, limits and form-of-life.
- Source :
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Environmental Politics . Jan-Mar2021, Vol. 30 Issue 1/2, p81-99. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Sustainable development, ecological modernisation, eco-efficiency and the like have reframed material limits as conventional barriers to growth. Even in recent arguments for degrowth, limits recede to the background in favour of self-limitation. To reclaim limits as the grounds for an effective environmental politics. I reconstruct how the case for the limits to growth was reversed into a case for the growth of limits, and how foundational boundaries were increasingly blurred. Arguing that lifestyle politics is unlikely to be effective against the growth machine, I elaborate on the notion of form-of-life. If not understood as a solipsistic self-mastery but as the mutually formative encounter of living entities – provided with their own dispositions yet sharing a common destiny – this notion puts the focus on how freedom and equality are premised on, rather than hampered by, limits. I conclude with four reasons why a radical theory and politics for the environment should make use of the notion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09644016
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 1/2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Environmental Politics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 149381213
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2020.1868864