Futures of Sustainability: Modernization, Transformation, Control

可持续发展的未来：现代化、转型、控制

• 批准号: 521852110
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Frank Adloff
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fachgebiet Kriminologische Sozialforschung (aufgelöst)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Advanced Studies Centres in SSH
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/521852110?language=en
• 关键词: Futures; Sustainability; Modernization; Transformation; Control

The Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” pursues a theory-driven analysis of the present that asks how societies change under different imaginaries of sustainability. In recent decades, sustainability has become a guiding concept of social change and a largely unavoidable frame of reference, but the goals and visions of the future it informs vary greatly. The Centre analyses modernization, transformation and control as three distinct paths of sustainability – each of which designs societal change differently and is shaped by different practices, (infra-)structures and imaginaries of the future. In the first funding phase of the Centre, the three trajectories were primarily located and investigated in three different social fields: modernization in the economic sphere, transformation in civil society, and control in the realm of the state. In the second funding phase, we place the focus increasingly on interconnections and overlaps between these fields and trajectories. On the one hand, we pursue the thesis that the path of control plays an increasingly important role in current efforts to govern sustainability. This leads us to investigate how control-based imaginaries and practices also reach into projects of modernization and transformation. On the other hand, we assume that current struggles over sustainable futures primarily unfold in a number of social arenas that form around specific issues and cut across the distinction between state, economy and civil society. They take shape around processes of participation, collective decision-making and cooperation (arena of participation), the renegotiation of fundamental rights and collective obligations (arena of law), emerging public and private systems of classification, valuation and evaluation (arena of taxonomies) and questions of cultural and religious interpretation of the world (arena of meaning-making). In these arenas, futures of sustainability are negotiated and prefigured through concrete problems. Finally, three overarching conceptual perspectives will guide our theory building over the next four years. The first perspective is dedicated to the diversity of social relations between humans and nature and holds that sustainability can only be adequately grasped analytically as multiple sustainabilities. The second focuses on questions of power and domination and examines how ecological emergencies and exceptional political situations exacerbate existing inequalities, but also how sustainability debates establish new powerful asymmetries. The third focuses on imaginaries and prefigurations of the future in the face of catastrophes and conceptualizes the struggle between defeatism, design optimism, and enlightened catastrophism.

人文高级研究中心“可持续发展的未来”追求对当下的理论驱动分析，探讨社会在不同的可持续想象下如何变化。近几十年来，可持续发展已成为社会变革的指导概念和基本上不可避免的参考框架，但它所传达的未来目标和愿景却存在很大差异。该中心将现代化、转型和控制视为三种不同的可持续发展路径——每一种路径都以不同的方式设计社会变革，并由不同的实践、（基础）结构和对未来的想象所塑造。在中心的第一个资助阶段，这三个轨迹主要在三个不同的社会领域进行定位和研究：经济领域的现代化、公民社会的转型和国家领域的控制。在第二个融资阶段，我们越来越关注这些领域和轨迹之间的相互联系和重叠。一方面，我们追求这样的论点：控制路径在当前治理可持续性的努力中发挥着越来越重要的作用。这引导我们研究基于控制的想象和实践如何影响现代化和转型项目。另一方面，我们假设当前关于可持续未来的斗争主要在许多社会领域展开，这些领域围绕具体问题形成，并跨越国家、经济和公民社会之间的区别。它们围绕参与过程、集体决策和合作（参与领域）、基本权利和集体义务的重新谈判（法律领域）、新兴的公共和私人分类、估价和评估体系（分类领域）以及对世界的文化和宗教解释问题（意义创造领域）而形成。在这些领域，可持续发展的未来是通过具体问题来协商和预示的。最后，三个总体概念视角将指导我们未来四年的理论建设。第一种观点致力于人类与自然之间社会关系的多样性，并认为可持续性只能通过分析作为多重可持续性来充分把握。第二个重点关注权力和统治问题，探讨生态紧急情况和特殊政治局势如何加剧现有的不平等，以及可持续性辩论如何建立新的强大的不对称性。第三部分侧重于面对灾难时对未来的想象和预兆，并将失败主义、设计乐观主义和开明灾难主义之间的斗争概念化。