The Obscured Potential of Environmental Politics.
| Autor: | Garside, Nick |
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| Zdroj: | Environments: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies; 2002, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p37-54, 18p |
| Abstrakt: | There are at least two ways in which environmentalism can influence democratic politics. The first and most prominent way is to take the strong sense of purpose that guides the environmental movement and attempt to participate in and disrupt current parliamentary decision-making bodies. The second and largely obscured way is to focus on the explicitly political content of the desire to represent nature in public discourse and by doing so potentially add to the numerous contemporary challenges to present day pseudo-democracy. Arguments in this paper are in support of the second option. Specifically, it is argued that the present tendency to turn to the political sphere as a space or discourse of authority rather than a sphere of active engagement amongst those committed to resisting the present reduction of politics to administration is hindering the liberatory potential of environmental politics. Furthermore, it is suggested that green political thought's common partnership with deliberative approaches to the present condition of plurality assists the movement side as opposed to the political side of environmentalism. To offer an alternative political avenue the approaches to politics articulated by agonistic pluralists Chantal Mouffe and Hannah Arendt are explored and supported as access points to environmental inclusion in political communities committed to celebrating rather than dealing with present conditions of plurality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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