Networked ecological citizenship, the new middle classes and the provisioning of sustainable waste management in Bangalore, India
Networked ecological citizenship, the new middle classes and the provisioning of sustainable waste management in Bangalore, India
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10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.08.041
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发表时间：
2014-01-15
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11.1
通讯作者：
Anantharaman, Manisha
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作者：
Anantharaman, Manisha
全球化和经济自由化使印度等新兴经济体的个人能够获得与资源密集的西方相似的生活方式。消费主义的蔓延带来了巨大的生态挑战，需要对印度新消费者的环境价值、伦理和政治进行调查研究。在本文中，我探讨了印度班加罗尔市新兴中产阶级（其最重要的消费阶层）中出现的亲环境行为。以家庭垃圾管理为例，我展示了家庭行为的改变是如何通过以社区为基础的协调而成为可能的，这种协调涉及多方行动者，如有环保意识的居民、家庭帮佣和雇佣的垃圾处理工人。根据生态公民理论，我讨论了通过回收和堆肥的废物管理如何通过社会经济特权的新中产阶级个人网络在班加罗尔实施。他们享有特权的社会、政治和经济地位使他们能够集体实施文化和结构环境的变革，以促进环保倡议。与此同时，家庭佣人和垃圾处理工人等其他行为者的作用对这一过程也至关重要。我展示了生态公民理论如何被用来分析和强调社会经济特权个人的自愿参与，但却没有认识到行为者的贡献，他们通过自己的生计实践，在产生能够在精英中实现亲环境行为的系统中发挥关键作用。最后，我建议对产生亲环境行为的过程和政治安排进行批判性分析，这对于印度等新兴经济体的可持续消费和生产研究至关重要。(C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd.版权所有。
Globalization and economic liberalization are enabling individuals in emerging economies like India to access lifestyles similar to the resource-intense West. This spread of consumerism poses substantial ecological challenges, and calls for studies that investigate the environmental values, ethics, and politics of India's new consumers. In this paper, I explore emerging pro-environmental behaviors in the city of Bangalore, India, among the new middle classes- its most significant consumer class. Using the case of home waste management, I show how household behavior change is made possible by neighborhood-based coordination, involving multiple actors such as environmentally-conscious residents, domestic help, and hired waste workers. Drawing on ecological citizenship theory, I discuss how waste management through recycling and composting is being implemented in Bangalore through networks of socio-economically privileged new middle class individuals. Their privileged social, political, and economic positions enable them to collectively enact changes in their cultural and structural contexts to facilitate pro-environmental initiatives. At the same time, the role of other actors like domestic servants and waste workers is also critical to the process. I show how ecological citizenship theory can be used to analyze and highlight voluntary involvement by socio-economically privileged individuals but fails to recognize the contributions of actors, who through their livelihood practices, play a pivotal role in producing the systems that enable pro-environmental behaviors among the elite. I conclude by suggesting that a critical analysis of the processes and political arrangements that produce pro-environmental behaviors is vital to sustainable consumption and production research in emerging economies like India. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.