Finite world and sustainable action-as-politics: On the ecological transformation of society

有限世界与可持续行动政治：论社会的生态转型

• 批准号: 423920618
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Tine Stein
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Politikwissenschaft
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/423920618?language=en
• 关键词: Finite; world; sustainable; action; politics

In the wake of the global environmental crisis, new forms of environmentally responsible individual conduct and social cooperation have emerged: some individuals and groups now aim to make a direct contribution – via sustainable action – to solve the ecological problem of finiteness. Partly, this may also be a reaction to an often diagnosed or perceived government failure in terms of finding political solutions to the ecological limits of growth. Three specific forms of sustainable action that take a lead role are urban gardening, community renewable energy, and community supported agriculture. These three forms concern key elements of finiteness, namely food production and energy.This project aims to analyse these forms of sustainable action. In a first step, the project will investigate selected initiatives with political-sociological methods. The goal is to identify individual and collective strategies of dealing with the experience of finiteness, which may be inferred from social practices and social cooperation. More specifically, the work methods and political self-images of the involved actors shall be analysed. In a second step, the project will employ a political-theoretical approach to classify these forms of sustainable action in terms of their political substance and their political potential. The key question is whether these forms of action remain within the confines of individual ethics or whether they may rather be understood as genuinely political behaviour. If the latter proves to be the case, it will be further inquired what understandings of politics are underlying these forms of action and whether they perhaps constitute new forms in the “regulation” of matters political.

在全球环境危机之后，出现了对环境负责的个人行为和社会合作的新形式：一些个人和团体现在的目标是通过可持续行动为解决有限的生态问题做出直接贡献。在某种程度上，这也可能是对政府在为增长的生态极限寻找政治解决方案方面经常被诊断或被认为失败的反应。发挥主导作用的三种具体形式的可持续行动是城市园艺、社区可再生能源和社区支持的农业。这三种形式涉及有限性的关键要素，即粮食生产和能源。作为第一步，该项目将用政治社会学方法调查选定的举措。我们的目标是确定个人和集体的策略，处理有限的经验，这可能是从社会实践和社会合作推断。更具体地说，应分析有关行为者的工作方法和政治自我形象。第二步，该项目将采用政治理论方法，根据其政治实质和政治潜力对这些形式的可持续行动进行分类。关键的问题是，这些行动形式是否仍在个人道德的范围内，或者它们是否可以被理解为真正的政治行为。如果事实证明是后者，那么我们将进一步探究，这些行动形式的基础是什么样的政治理解，它们是否可能构成对政治问题的“调节”的新形式。