Re-conceptualizing (environmental) sociology

Kasper, Debbie

doi:10.1080/23251042.2016.1197474

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“…Finally, while this is not a policy paper, it does have implications for the pressing issue of sustainability in relation to reliance on motorised transport (Kasper, 2016). Getting more people utility cycling depends not simply on changing infrastructure -by way of such measures as bike lanes and traffic calming initiatives -but also on the more specific issue of restructuring the transactions anticipated and experienced by potential, novice, and experienced cyclists.…”

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Body pedagogics, transactionalism and vélo identities: Becoming a cyclist in motorised societies

Shilling

2021

The Sociological Review

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Sociological research into the body pedagogics of occupational, educational, religious and sporting groups focuses on cases in which the social and material environment reproduces these ‘ways of life’, yet devotes little attention to how cultures persist within circumstances hostile to their maintenance. Developing a transactionalist approach to body pedagogics, I address this lacuna by investigating the case of cycling within societies dominated by automobility. Cycling, in these contexts, requires individuals to engage creatively with challenging physical and environmental exchanges. Such exchanges frequently alienate but can involve the development of ‘outsider’ mobile status, have been reorganised into stable practices by vélo cultures, and highlight embodied processes relevant to general sociological investigations into marginalised cultures.

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Body pedagogics, transactionalism and vélo identities: Becoming a cyclist in motorised societies

Shilling

2021

The Sociological Review

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“…A key finding of this project is that there are deep ambivalences about what counts as knowledge and truth when it comes to information about the developments in and around the Narrabri Shire, especially in terms of the politics of land use, the influence of the extraction industries, and the trustworthiness of companies and governments. The distinctive ways individuals engage and perceive risks, even reflexively, is mediated by their own 'sense of one's place', their habitus (see Kasper 2016 for the concept of habitus' importance to environmental sociology). That is, reflexivity about risk is structured by their deep connection with the land and then structuring of their land use politics.…”

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Affect, risk and local politics of knowledge: changing land use in Narrabri, NSW

Threadgold

Farrugia

Askland

et al. 2018

Environmental Sociology

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As conflicts emerge over land use when extractive industries arrive, what counts as legitimate knowledge about the risks generated by these developments becomes important to how individuals formulate their opinions. This article analyses knowledge, risk and perceptions of future land use in the Narrabri Shire, a rural area in Australia. In a risk society, especially a 'post-truth' one, the production of knowledge, whether scientific, political, media or commercially driven, does not provide more security and certainty, but more insecurity and uncertainty. This article uses Bourdieusian concepts informed with theoretical insights about affect and emotion to understand how reflexivity about risks and environmental politics are interpreted. Land use practices are emotional for some local farmers, where their 'sense of one's place' is structured by their deep connection with the land and is therefore structuring of their land use politics. For others, their response may be couched as more economically 'rational', but this also expresses an emotional position in an affective economy that destabilises traditional economic understandings of rational/emotional dichotomies. Affect and illusio can contribute to understanding the colour and intensity of the positions occupied in response to land use disputes.

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“…Status aspirations partly explains the strong sense of superiority engendered by the 'we' feeling of many involved in these movements (2009, p. 131). Kasper (2016) argues that figurational process sociology offers central concepts and theories that are inherently environmental. She stresses that humans are both biological organismsdependent on and interacting with the biophysical contexts within which they developand also social organismsembedded and developing within bonds and chains of functional interdependence with others.…”

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A problem of generations? Habitus, social processes and climate change

Bickerstaffe

2023

JGR

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Purpose This conceptual paper focusses on climate change as a social issue and therefore as a social scientific problem. According to young climate activists, Greta Thunberg being the most widely known, climate change is specifically a problem of generations. Typically, the discourse on responsibility focusses on the technical and philosophical questions posed by the study into “intra-” and “inter-generational justice”. It is the purpose of this paper to present sociological conceptual tools with which to both analyze and propose solutions to specific social problems caused by current generations that will affect future generations. Design/methodology/approach Figurational process sociology develops and tests models of long-term, unplanned developments, which produce the conditions in which short-term practices of informing and planning social interventions are bound up. Findings The paper reveals the significance of sociological models that can describe and explain social processes and long-term developments in human habitus that have important explanatory value for understanding contemporary social problems such as human-caused climate change. Originality/value The concepts and analytical frames of reference provided by figurational process sociology provide crucial insights into the problem of generations and can help reveal how this social dynamic contributes to challenges facing young climate activists calling for rapid “ecologization” processes and increased human restraint with regard to the natural environment.

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Re-conceptualizing (environmental) sociology

Cited by 9 publications

References 44 publications

Body pedagogics, transactionalism and vélo identities: Becoming a cyclist in motorised societies

Body pedagogics, transactionalism and vélo identities: Becoming a cyclist in motorised societies

Affect, risk and local politics of knowledge: changing land use in Narrabri, NSW

A problem of generations? Habitus, social processes and climate change

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