Intergenerational Justice, Consumption and Sustainability in Comparative Perspective

比较视角下的代际正义、消费与可持续性

• 批准号: AH/K006215/1
• 负责人: Gill Valentine
• 金额: $ 110.52万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK006215%2F1
• 关键词: Intergenerational; Justice; Consumption; Sustainability; Comparative

The creation of 'a society for all ages' is one of the United Nation's key goals. Intergenerational solidarity is fundamental if we are to achieve the social change necessary to fulfil this ideal. Yet this solidarity is threatened by environmentally unsustainable models of consumption that raise fundamental questions about justice between generations in the Global North, rising powers, and the developing world. However, intergenerational justice has overwhelmingly been researched from a Western perspective. INTERSECTION will internationalise this debate though innovative, multi-method, cross-national research to explore inequitable consumption practices between different generations across time and space. The research will be located in three contrasting national contexts: China, Uganda, and the UK, where we will work in partnership with academic colleagues at Makerere University (Uganda) and Beijing University (China) and key stakeholders from international and national Non-Governmental Organisations (e.g. The Beth Johnson Foundation, Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, World Council's Commission on Future Justice and Citizenship Foundation). These national contexts have been chosen because they are differentially positioned in terms of demographics (e.g. the composition and spacing of generations); cultural values (e.g. understandings of familial obligations, moralities and notions of personhood); histories; material cultures; patterns of consumption; environmental assets and problems. INTERSECTION is organised into three core elements (theoretical; methodological and analytical) and three strands of enquiry - Strand A, Who is Entitled to What? Generational Views on Entitlements to Consumption; Strand B, Who Wins and Loses? Perceptions of Intergenerational Equity in Consumption; Strand C, Who Owes What to Whom? Strategies to Produce a Society for All Ages. It brings together expertise from Geography (Valentine & Vanderbeck), Linguistics (Chen), East Asian Studies (Zhang) and English/ African Studies (Plastow). The research involves active collaboration with partners from the creative sector: the sculptor Anthony Bennett and the animated film-maker Nick Bax. They will create public art that will be: used as research tools; act as a focal points for the development of public engagement and knowledge exchange activities with our non-academic stakeholders; and will provide impact beyond the award by providing a lasting reminder of our obligations towards future generationsThe findings will meet the challenge of developing new international and interdisciplinary understandings of intergenerational justice by developing an evidence base about how changing consumption values and practices relate to and/or impede the production of intergenerational solidarities. In doing so, it will produce new insights into how the relationship between consumption practices and intergenerational justice are understood outside of the global North. The research will also further develop cross-national research methods for understanding questions of intergenerational justice, promote transdisciplinary networks, and build research capacity through facilitating training and collaboration between researchers in different national contexts.INTERSECTION will achieve impact by contributing to transnational questions about how to achieve cultural change in consumption practices and will inform government and international priorities in relation to building sustainable societies, and addressing intergenerational inequalities in national and international contexts. In doing so, it will contribute to the shaping of the future development of the AHRC's Care for the Future Programme, providing a leadership role by highlighting the significance of non-Western and international ways of thinking about intergenerational justice and sustainability and will contribute to the United Nations goal to produce a society for all ages.

建立“不分年龄人人共享的社会”是联合国的主要目标之一。如果我们要实现实现这一理想所需的社会变革，代际团结至关重要。然而，这种团结受到了环境上不可持续的消费模式的威胁，这些模式提出了关于全球北方、新兴大国和发展中国家几代人之间正义的根本问题。然而，代际正义的研究绝大多数是从西方的角度。INTERSECTION将通过创新，多方法，跨国研究来探讨不同世代之间跨时间和空间的不公平消费行为，从而使这一辩论国际化。研究将在三个对比鲜明的国家背景下进行：在中国、乌干达和英国，我们将与马凯雷雷大学（乌干达）和北京大学（中国）的学术同事以及来自国际和国家非政府组织的主要利益相关者合作（例如贝丝约翰逊基金会、后代权利基金会、世界理事会未来正义和公民权委员会基金会）。之所以选择这些国情，是因为它们在人口统计学（例如世代的组成和间隔）、文化价值观（例如对家庭义务、道德和人格观念的理解）、历史、物质文化、消费模式、环境资产和问题等方面有不同的定位。交叉被组织成三个核心要素（理论;方法论和分析）和三个调查链-链A，谁被赋予什么？世代对消费权利的看法;斯特兰德B，谁赢谁输？对消费代际公平的看法; Strand C，谁欠谁什么？建立不分年龄人人共享的社会的战略。它汇集了地理学（Valentine & Vanderbeck），语言学（Chen），东亚研究（Zhang）和英语/非洲研究（Plastow）的专业知识。这项研究涉及与创意部门的合作伙伴积极合作：雕塑家安东尼班尼特和动画电影制片人尼克巴克斯。他们将创造公共艺术，这将是：作为研究工具;作为一个焦点，为公众参与和知识交流活动的发展与我们的非学术利益相关者;并将通过持久地提醒我们对后代的义务来产生超越奖项的影响。这些发现将通过发展一种新的国际和跨学科的理解来应对发展代际正义的挑战。关于不断变化的消费价值观和做法如何影响和/或阻碍代际团结的证据基础。在这样做的过程中，它将产生新的见解，如何消费做法和代际正义之间的关系是如何理解的全球北方以外。这项研究还将进一步发展跨国研究方法，以了解代际正义问题，促进跨学科网络，INTERSECTION将通过促进不同国家背景下的研究人员之间的培训和合作来产生影响，并将为政府和国际社会在以下方面的优先事项提供信息：建设可持续社会，解决国家和国际范围内的代际不平等问题。通过这样做，它将有助于塑造澳大利亚人权委员会“关心未来”计划的未来发展，通过强调非西方和国际思维方式对代际正义和可持续发展的重要性来发挥领导作用，并将有助于实现联合国建立不分年龄人人共享的社会的目标。

项目成果

A Chinese route to sustainability: post-socialist transitions and ecological civilisation

中国的可持续发展之路：后社会主义转型与生态文明

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Sustainable Development
• 影响因子: 12.5
• 作者: Liu, C.

Family, Intergenerationality and Peer Group Relations. Volume 5 of the series Major Reference Work on Geographies of Children and Young People

家庭、代际关系和同侪群体关系。

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Diprose, K.

Building common cause towards sustainable consumption: A cross-generational perspective

构建可持续消费的共同事业：跨代视角

• DOI: 10.1177/2514848619834845
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Nature and Space
• 作者: Diprose K

Climate change, intergenerational justice and geographies of responsibility

气候变化、代际正义和责任地域

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Africa
• 影响因子: 1.2
• 作者: Diprose K

A Chinese route to sustainability: Postsocialist transitions and the construction of ecological civilization

• DOI: 10.1002/sd.1743
• 发表时间: 2018-11
• 期刊: Sustainable Development
• 影响因子: 12.5
• 作者: Chen Liu;Lily Chen;Robert M. Vanderbeck;G. Valentine;Mei Zhang;Kristina Diprose;K. McQuaid