Ethical Conjunctures, Globalised Environmental Discourses and the Quest for a Better City (Mexico City)

利用新西兰奥克兰市环境伦理和文化实践分项目的成果，这一分项目将研究重点扩展到墨西哥城。它的目的是调查旨在创造一个更好的城市的全球指令的力量，这些指令在伦理的结合下发挥作用，包括这一议程的反对者和障碍。在城市伦理研究小组内，它解决了治理和主观化的视角，并旨在通过强调责任和关怀来进一步发展它们。这个子项目使用有争议的骑车实践作为镜头，调查一个更好、更公正的城市的愿景，以及一个健康和负责任的公民的愿景(主观化过程)。它研究了骑自行车作为一种新的机动性在墨西哥城的影响，并询问它如何塑造市民的日常生活以及他们与城市空间的关系。与奥克兰的市议会一样，墨西哥市政府制定了一项行动计划，以解决他们的环境污染问题(治理技术)。这一绿色议程受到有关污染控制和可持续发展的全球峰会、协议和指导方针以及国际城市榜样的强烈影响。这一伦理以及对城市公民的监管，与保护环境、公民健康和健康的呼声相联系，表明了责任过程的转变。但墨西哥城是一个支离破碎的治理空间，有许多利益集团。除了市议会外，民间组织还采取主动行动，解决城市环境问题，改善城市生活。然而，他们对更美好城市的愿景包括社会政治主张，如社会正义、包容性和社会凝聚力的概念。该分项目还调查了这些进程的反对者，他们作为“不道德”的参与者，参与了关于更好城市的议论谈判。该项目运用了人种学方法和参与者观察，包括与专家的访谈、小组讨论和认知方法。

Drawing on the results of the subproject on environmental ethics and cultural practices in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, this subproject extends the focus of research to Mexico City. It aims to investigate the power of global directives that aim to create a better city at work in a conjuncture of ethics, including the opponents of and barriers to this agenda. Within the urban ethics research group, it addresses the perspectivations of governance and subjectivation, and aims to develop them further through an emphasis on responsibilisation and care. This subproject uses the contested practice of cycling as a lens to investigate visions of both a better and more just city, and of a healthy and responsible citizen (subjectivation processes). It researches the impacts of cycling as a new mobility in Mexico City and asks how it shapes citizens’ everyday lives and their relationship to urban space. Like the city council in Auckland, the city government in Mexico developed a plan of action to deal with their environmental pollution problems (techniques of governance). This green agenda is strongly influenced by references to global summits, agreements, and guidelines and international urban role models with regard to pollution control and sustainability. This conjuncture of ethics as well as the regulation of urban citizens, linked to calls for care for the environment and for citizen fitness and health, points to shifting processes of responsibilisation. But Mexico City is a fragmented governance space with many interest groups. In addition to the city council, civil organizations take initiatives to address urban environmental issues and to better urban life. Their visions of a better city, however, include socio-political claims, such as notions of social justice, inclusion and social cohesion. The subproject also investigates the opponents of these processes, who, as “unethical” actors, take part in the discursive negotiation of a better city. The project applies ethnographic methods with participant observation, including interviews with experts, group discussions and cognitive methods.