Ecological citizenship and democracy : communitarian versus agonistic perspectives
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- Anneleen Kenis (UGent)
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- Abstract
- Grassroots environmental movements have recently started to question the focus on sustainable consumption as a main strategy to tackle climate change. They prefer to address individuals as citizens rather than as consumers, and focus on collective rather than individual change. Two prominent movements in this regard are Transition Towns and Climate Justice Action. While both movements criticise conventional approaches, they put forward entirely different strategies for what has to happen instead. Based on extensive qualitative research, this article analyses how these movements manifest themselves in Flanders (Belgium). The focus is on their different accounts of how and why collective practices have to be built, and the place they attribute to the political' in this. The analysis reveals the existence of two different forms of ecological citizenship: one communitarian, the other agonistic.
- Keywords
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Sociology and Political Science, sustainable consumption, ecological citizenship, democracy, climate change, post-politics, the political, transition towns, climate justice action, CLIMATE-CHANGE, SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION, BEHAVIOR-CHANGE, POST-POLITICS
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8699890
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- Kenis, Anneleen. “Ecological Citizenship and Democracy : Communitarian versus Agonistic Perspectives.” ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 25, no. 6, 2016, pp. 949–70, doi:10.1080/09644016.2016.1203524.
- APA
- Kenis, A. (2016). Ecological citizenship and democracy : communitarian versus agonistic perspectives. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, 25(6), 949–970. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2016.1203524
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- Kenis, Anneleen. 2016. “Ecological Citizenship and Democracy : Communitarian versus Agonistic Perspectives.” ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS 25 (6): 949–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2016.1203524.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Kenis, Anneleen. 2016. “Ecological Citizenship and Democracy : Communitarian versus Agonistic Perspectives.” ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS 25 (6): 949–970. doi:10.1080/09644016.2016.1203524.
- Vancouver
- 1.Kenis A. Ecological citizenship and democracy : communitarian versus agonistic perspectives. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS. 2016;25(6):949–70.
- IEEE
- [1]A. Kenis, “Ecological citizenship and democracy : communitarian versus agonistic perspectives,” ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 949–970, 2016.
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