Political ecology, variegated green economies, and the foreclosure of alternative sustainabilities
Political ecology, variegated green economies, and the foreclosure of alternative sustainabilities
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政治生态、多样化的绿色经济以及替代可持续发展的排除
DOI：
10.2458/v24i1.20800
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
T. A. Benjaminsen
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作者：
C. Cavanagh;T. A. Benjaminsen
在过去的二十年里，政治生态学家对自然的私有化、商品化和市场化提出了广泛的批评，包括在绿色增长和绿色经济的幌子下可能促进的新形式的积累和占用。这些批评往往表明，这种做法可能对整个发展中世界和其他地区的某些弱势群体产生有害影响。然而，除了少数例外，政治生态学家显然不太注意阐述追求可持续性和社会环境正义的替代举措。因此，对本特别章节的贡献明确地将绿色经济的概念作为一个斗争领域，一个不可避免地受到实际存在的“绿色经济”战略在特定历史和地理条件下最终采取的各种形式的制约。在这样做的过程中，他们强调了在表面上新生的人类世中追求人类和非人类福祉的潜在可持续性同样不是一种而是多种，其中每一种都反映了社会，政治和经济关系的替代-并且可能更进步-星座。然而，它们也突出了各种各样的努力，以先发制人或取消这些替代品的赎回权，突出了一种隐含的政治，即在任何特定的时间和地点，谁的可持续性概念被认为是可能的或可取的。在探索这种斗争的替代可持续性和“希望的生态”，他们含蓄地提供，然后，本介绍首先回顾了这些辩论的当前前沿，然后才阐明如何对这个问题的贡献都相交，并建立在他们。关键词：绿色经济;政治生态学;政治经济学;替代性可持续性
Abstract Over the past two decades, political ecologists have provided extensive critiques of the privatization, commodification, and marketization of nature, including of the new forms of accumulation and appropriation that these might facilitate under the more recent guise of green growth and the green economy. These critiques have often demonstrated that such approaches can retain deleterious implications for certain vulnerable populations across the developing world and beyond. With few exceptions, however, political ecologists have paid decidedly less attention to expounding upon alternative initiatives for pursuing both sustainability and socio-environmental justice. Accordingly, the contributions to this Special Section engage the concept of the green economy explicitly as a terrain of struggle, one inevitably conditioned by the variegated forms that actually-existing 'green economy' strategies ultimately take in specific historical and geographical conjunctures. In doing so, they highlight the ways in which there is likewise not one but many potential sustainabilities for pursuing human and non-human well-being in the ostensibly nascent Anthropocene, each of which reflects alternative – and, potentially, more progressive – constellations of social, political, and economic relations. Yet they also foreground diverse efforts to pre-empt or to foreclose upon these alternatives, highlighting an implicit politics of precisely whose conception of sustainability is deemed to be possible or desirable in any given time and place. In exploring such struggles over alternative sustainabilities and the 'ecologies of hope' that they implicitly offer, then, this introduction first reviews the current frontiers of these debates, before illuminating how the contributions to this issue both intersect with and build upon them. Key words: Green economy; political ecology; political economy; alternative sustainabilities