Negotiating the Networks of Space, Time and Substance: A Geographical Perspective on the Sustainable Citizen

Bullen, Anna; Whitehead, Mark

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“…Bullen and Whitehead (2005) explain that sustainable citizenship represents a paradigm for post industrial living that disrupts the spatial parameters and temporal scope of conventional citizenship and raises important questions about the material constitution of the citizen. It requires citizens to exercise responsibilities to distant people and places and past and future generations, and to commit themselves to ecologism (Smith 1998) to the extent that they are required to exercise care or stewardship for non-human nature.…”

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The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: business as usual in the end

Huckle

Wals

2015

Environmental Education Research

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An analysis of the literature supporting the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and a sample of its key products suggests that it failed to acknowledge or challenge neoliberalism as a hegemonic force blocking transitions towards genuine sustainability. The authors argue that the rationale for the Decade was idealistic and that global education for sustainability citizenship provides a more realistic focus for such an initiative. They anchor such education in appropriate social theory, outline its four dimensions and use these to review four key products from the Decade, before suggesting remedial measures to render ESD a more effective vehicle for promoting democratic global governance and sustainability.

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The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: business as usual in the end

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2015

Environmental Education Research

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“…They are derived from scholarship on contemporary citizenship models and different accounts of corporate social responsibility and citizenship (seeLister 2007;Barry 2005;Bullen and Whitehead 2005;Van Poeck, Vandenabeele, and Bruyninckx 2009;Micheletti, Stolle, and Berlin forthcoming;Crane, Matten, and Moon 2008;Birch 2003;Vidaver- Cohen and Altman 2000; …”

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Sustainable Citizenship and the New Politics of Consumption

Micheletti¹,

Stolle²

2012

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This article develops the notion of “sustainable citizenship” and distinguishes it from more conventional forms of citizenship. The authors formulate indicators of the presence of sustainable citizenship among individuals, in corporations, and in nongovernmental organizations and apply those indicators in two empirical studies. The first study is of institutions (Fairtrade International, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and The Walt Disney Company), and the second is of individuals, particularly those who practice political consumerism and vegetarianism. The studies show that citizenship is expanding in three significant ways: by addressing concerns about past and current injustices and their effects on the future (broadened temporal dimension); by addressing responsibilities worldwide, not just within one’s country (broadened spatial dimension); and by adding a material dimension that emphasizes responsibility to nature and animals. The studies find that the development of sustainable citizenship is taking detours. In particular, self-interest often dominates its nonreciprocal or other-regarding concerns.

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“…Rather than concentrating on short-term objectives and the need to attract investors, urban development, it is argued, should adopt a more holistic and future-oriented set of programmes and strategies so that the downstream effects of actions taken in the present are thought through and woven into development visions and strategies. Citizens and other stakeholders in the urban development process are required to develop new future-oriented governmentalities and ways of thinking (see Bullen and Whitehead, 2005). At the same time, however, new forms of public management have come to dominate public sector practices based on time-limited target and budget setting.…”

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“…As Urry (2003) notes, the social relations surrounding the structuring of time and space are underpinned by inequalities of power. The concept of sustainability requires new forms of imagined trust to be created over the timescales through which the`benefits' of development projects are to be delivered (see Bullen and Whitehead, 2005;Dobson, 1996). Communities can no longer expect or demand that their immediate needs should be prioritised.…”

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Changing Times, Changing Places: Urban Development and the Politics of Space–Time

2008

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IntroductionMuch of the literature on urban regeneration has focused on the form and character of new urban spaces and the broader socioeconomic impacts of projects on communities living in and around development areas. The emphasis has been on the mechanisms in and through which development imaginations have been structured and mobilised and the ways in which the powers of different interests have been converted into development practices. However, in this paper we argue that relatively little attention has been given to the issue of time in the regeneration process and the socioeconomic impacts of development phasing and timing. Regeneration, after all, is concerned not only with what is constructed but also when particular objectives should be prioritised and at what point(s) in the development process different groups and interests could and should have their needs and priorities addressed.This politics of space^time takes on multiple forms. Policy makers and planners, for example, often initiate urban projects by trying to encourage developers to invest capital in peripheral and/or derelict urban sites. In the short term the need to prepare sites for new investment often becomes the principal development priority. Developers and investors, in turn, often look to maximise the returns on their investments by shortening investment time frames as tying up capital for long periods increases costs. For others, however, such as residential and small-business communities located Abstract. Much of the writing on urban regeneration in the UK has been focused on the types of urban spaces that have been created in city centres. Less has been written about the issue of when the benefits of regeneration could and should be delivered to a range of different interests, and the different time frames that exist in any development area. Different perceptions of time have been reflected in dominant development philosophies in the UK and elsewhere. The trickle-down agendas of the 1980s, for example, were criticised for their focus on the short-term time frames and needs of developers, often at the expense of those of local communities. The recent emergence of sustainability discourses, however, ostensibly changes the time focus of development and promotes a broader concern with new imagined futures. This paper draws on the example of development in Salford Quays, in the North West of England, to argue that more attention needs to be given to the politics of space^time in urban development processes. It begins by discussing the importance and relevance of this approach before turning to the case study and the ways in which the local politics of spacet ime has influenced development agendas and outcomes. The paper argues that such an approach harbours the potential for more progressive, far-reaching, and sustainable development agendas to be developed and implemented.

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Negotiating the Networks of Space, Time and Substance: A Geographical Perspective on the Sustainable Citizen

Cited by 49 publications

References 25 publications

The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: business as usual in the end

The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: business as usual in the end

Sustainable Citizenship and the New Politics of Consumption

Changing Times, Changing Places: Urban Development and the Politics of Space–Time

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