Social Sustainability in Unsustainable Society : Concepts, Critiques and Counter-Narratives.

Author
Krøjer, Jo. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
  • Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2024.
  • ©2023.
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1 online resource (139 pages)

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Contents
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Chapter 1: Social Sustainability in Unsustainable Times: Introduction of One Book and Many Problems
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Social Sustainability as Part of the Broader Sustainability Agenda
  • 1.3 Key Concepts of the Book
  • 1.3.1 Care and Emotionality
  • 1.3.2 Epistemology and Forms of Knowledge and Reason
  • 1.3.3 Drivers for Change Towards a Socially Sustainable Future
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Emotional and Relational Impoverishment: Social Unsustainability in the Welfare State
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Impoverishment and the Connection Between Economy and Social Sustainability
  • 2.3 Historical and Economic Conditions for Care Work in the Welfare State
  • 2.3.1 Gendered Economic Inequality in Care Work
  • 2.3.2 Austerity and Productivity Focus Post-2008
  • 2.4 Care Work and Ethics of Care
  • 2.5 Analysis - Care Work and the Vicious Cycles of Impoverishment
  • 2.5.1 Time for Relatedness
  • 2.5.2 Corporeal Presence
  • 2.6 Conclusion
  • Chapter 3: Emotions Differentiate Opportunities: Investigating Emotions as a Component in Social Sustainability in Primary School
  • 3.1 Emotions and Opportunities in Primary School
  • 3.2 Emotions as a Component of Social Sustainability
  • 3.3 The Distribution of Emotions as a Dividing Practice
  • 3.4 Testing - A Recurrent Activity in Primary Schools
  • 3.5 The Gloominess and Despair of Testing
  • 3.6 Revealing Incompetence - Affects Become Criteria of Evaluation
  • 3.7 Emotional Stigmatisation
  • 3.8 Emotions as a Hidden Indicator of Inequality
  • 3.9 Equality, Inclusion or Care?
  • Chapter 4: Sustainability Beyond Extractivism? Insights from Reciprocity and Caring Practices Amongst Regenerative Farmers
  • 4.1 Introduction: Sustainability Beyond Extractivism.
  • 4.2 Theoretical and Analytical Framework: Caring Practices and Relations Beyond Mastery
  • 4.2.1 Bringing Non-extractivism to the Forefront of Sustainability
  • 4.2.2 Re-emergence of Reciprocity and Caring Practices in Human-Nature Relations
  • 4.3 Methodology: Studying Regenerative Practices
  • 4.3.1 Epistemologies of the South and Sociology of Absences and Emergencies
  • 4.3.2 Regenerative Farming
  • 4.3.3 Empirical Methods
  • 4.4 Analysis 1: Care and Reciprocity in Regenerative Farming
  • 4.4.1 Withdrawing Human Agency
  • 4.4.2 Being Attentive
  • 4.4.3 A Friendly Relationship
  • 4.5 Analysis 2: Organizing for Caring Practices
  • 4.5.1 The Burden of Debt vs. Emergence of New Land-Ownership Structures
  • 4.5.2 Market Pressure vs. Support Networks
  • 4.6 Discussion and Concluding Remarks: Sustainability Beyond Extractivism?
  • Annexes
  • Chapter 5: Making Sense of Social Sustainability
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Is Sustainability Mono-sensory?
  • 5.2.1 Origins of Sensory Critiques
  • 5.2.2 Applying Sensory Critiques of the Instruments of Sustainable Development
  • 5.3 Three Alternative Sensory Models of Social Sustainability
  • 5.3.1 Sensory Indiscipline in our Social Lives
  • 5.3.2 Relational Embodiment to Increase Co-presence
  • 5.3.3 Innovative Latency for Playful Solutions
  • 5.4 Cross-Cutting Themes
  • 5.5 Conclusions and Implications
  • Chapter 6: The Radio and the Plant
  • 6.1 The Hunter and the Biologist
  • 6.2 The Colonization of Kalaallit Nunaat and the Lack of Agency
  • 6.3 Colonization and Sustainability in a Habermasian Perspective
  • 6.4 Colonization as Epistemicide According to Santos
  • 6.5 Comparing Habermas' and Santos' Theories of Colonization and the Implication for Sustainability
  • 6.6 When Aílton Krenak Entered the Conversation, Everything Fell Apart
  • References.
  • Chapter 7: Sustainability Practice in a World at Risk
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Sustainability and Social Sustainability
  • 7.3 Social Consciousness in a World Risk Society
  • 7.4 Empirical Example: Sustainable Eco-tourism and Adventure Guide Education
  • 7.5 Community Responses: A World at Risk and the Potentiality of Resistance
  • 7.6 Conclusively
  • Chapter 8: Agency and Subjectivity in Social Sustainability
  • 8.1 Introduction: Social Sustainability as Complexity
  • 8.2 Social Sustainability in Definitions and Practices
  • 8.3 Agency in Social Sustainability
  • 8.4 Sustainability Agency in Contexts
  • 8.5 Agency Contested
  • 8.6 Psychosocial Subjects in Social Sustainability
  • 8.7 Rounding up: Agency and Subjectivity in Social Sustainability
ISBN
  • 9783031513664
  • 3031513665
OCLC
1419869971
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