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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY
卷 50, 期 3-4, 页码 237-262出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0020715209105141
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ecologically unequal exchange; machine fetishism; resilience; sustainability; world-system
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This article discusses various ways in which conventional discourse on sustainability fails to acknowledge the distributive, political, and cultural dimensions of global environmental problems. It traces some lineages of critical thinking on environmental load displacement and ecologically unequal exchange, arguing that such acknowledgement of a global environmental 'zero-sum game' is essential to recognizing the extent to which cornucopian perceptions of 'development' represent an illusion. It identifies five interconnected illusions currently postponing systemic crisis and obstructing rational societal negotiations that acknowledge the political dimensions of global ecology: 1) The fragmentation of scientific perspectives into bounded categories such as 'technology', 'economy', and 'ecology'. 2) The assumption that the operation of market prices is tantamount to reciprocity. 3) The illusion of machine fetishism, that is, that the technological capacity of a given population is independent of that population's position in a global system of resource flows. 4) The representation of inequalities in societal space as developmental stages in historical time. 5) The conviction that 'sustainable development' can be achieved through consensus. The article offers some examples of how the rising global anticipation of socio-ecological contradiction and disaster is being ideologically disarmed by the rhetoric on 'sustainability' and 'resilience'.
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