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.

人文学科高级研究中心“可持续性期货”对当前的理论驱动的分析进行了询问，询问社会如何在可持续性的不同想象中发生变化。近几十年来，可持续性已成为社会变革和不可避免的参考框架的指导概念，但是它所提供的未来目标和视野差异很大。中心分析作为可持续性的三个不同途径的现代化，转变和控制，每种社会变革的设计都不同，并且受到不同实践，（基础）结构和未来的想象的影响。在该中心的第一个融资阶段，这三个轨迹主要在三个不同的社会领域找到并进行了研究：经济领域的现代化，民间社会的转变以及国家领域的控制。在第二个融资阶段，我们将重点越来越多地放在这些领域和轨迹之间的互连和重叠。一方面，我们探讨了控制道路在当前管理可持续性的努力中起着越来越重要的作用。这使我们研究了基于控制的想象力和实践如何进入现代化和转型的项目。另一方面，我们假设目前在许多社会领域的可持续未来斗争围绕特定问题，并削减了国家，经济和民间社会之间的区别。它们围绕参与过程，集体决策与合作（参与竞技场），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，价值与评估（分类法）以及文化和宗教解释（含义的宗教）（现实的宗教解释）（现有意义）的问题。在这些领域，可持续性的未来是通过具体问题谈判和预先建立的。最后，三个总体的概念观点将指导我们未来四年的理论建设。第一个观点是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在分析上以多种可持续性进行分析。第二个重点是权力和统治问题，并考试生态紧急情况和杰出的政治情况如何加剧现有的不平等现象，同时可持续性辩论如何建立新的强大不对称性。第三个重点是面对灾难时对未来的想象和预制，并概念化了信念，设计乐观和开明的灾难性之间的斗争。