Sustainability schizophrenia or “actually existing sustainabilities?” toward a broader understanding of the politics and promise of local sustainability in the US

Krueger, Robert J.; Agyeman, Julian

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.07.005

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“…In this article, we explore the functions of sustainability discourse in deepening our understanding of sustainability as a hegemonic concept in urban politics. We concur that "actual existing sustainabilities" (Krueger and Agyeman 2005) are political constructs, a diverse set of ideas and practices that frame (selective) issues of environmental degradation and inequality on political agendas Kreuger 2007, Bulkeley andBetsill 2013). However, sustainability mainly works as a discourse or a linguistic political mechanism with no essence other than attracting positive affections in order to accomplish something (Cox and Béland 2013).…”

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Functions of sustainability: exploring what urban sustainability policy discourse “does” in the Gothenburg Metropolitan Area

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Functions of sustainability: exploring what urban sustainability policy discourse “does” in the Gothenburg Metropolitan Area

2017

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“…In a context where urban planning is increasingly permeated by the precepts of sustainable development (Emelianoff, 2002), we see our work as part of the emerging urban geography literature on 'actually existing sustainabilities' (Krueger and Agyeman, 2005;Krueger and Gibbs, 2007;Evans and Jones, 2008). This takes an empirical yet critical approach to governance and urban policies on sustainability in different social, political and economic contexts.…”

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The Sustainability of a Financialized Urban Megaproject: The Case of Sihlcity in Zurich

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Crevoisier

2012

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Financialization and sustainable urban planning are now two major components of urban production and landscape change in Western cities. On the one hand, urban propertyand more specifically major urban projects or megaprojects such as, for example, business districts, airports, sports stadiums or even urban network infrastructures -is increasingly owned by financial actors. On the other hand, these urban megaprojects have a significant impact on the organization of urban functions and city planning, which lean increasingly towards the precepts of sustainable development.The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the intervention of financial actors influences urban sustainability in the building of a megaproject. Within the framework of an institutionalist and territorial approach to the economy (Colletis-Wahl et al., 2008;Crevoisier, 2010), this article develops an analytical framework that allows us to grasp the relationships between finance and sustainability in the urban production process. To be more precise, this framework aims first to examine the way in which sustainability has been produced by the different actors involved in a real-life situation, and then to place these interactions in their institutional, spatial and temporal context. Over the course of the different phases of one project, the actors constructed formal and informal institutional arrangements (Hodgson, 2006), reflecting issues that are financial and at the

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“…As such it is focused upon widespread 'actually existing sustainabilities' (Krueger and Agyeman, 2005;Smith and Jehlička, 2007) rather than their absence or exceptional status. Our interest is not in the future promise of transformations towards sustainability, or the projection of system changes that allow sustainability.…”

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Quiet sustainability: Fertile lessons from Europe's productive gardeners

Smith

Jehlička

2013

Journal of Rural Studies

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This paper investigates notable examples of sustainable lifestyles in relation to food systems. It explores the surprisingly neglected case of widely practised and environmentally sustainable food self-provisioning in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. Our argument is rooted in qualitative and quantitative data gathered over a seven-year period (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011). The research considers the extent of and motivations for these practices in Poland and Czechia. The very high rates compared to Western Europe and North America have generally been explained in terms of an 'urban peasantry' meeting essential needs. After reviewing and rejecting those accounts we present evidence for these as socially and environmentally beneficial practices, and explore how the motivations derive from a range of feelings about food, quality, capability and family and / or friendship. Rather than relate these practices to temporal signals of quality and sustainability in food ('slow' and 'fast'), or presenting them as 'alternative food networks' we suggest that they represent 'quiet sustainability'. This novel concept summarises widespread practices that result in beneficial environmental or social outcomes and that do not relate directly or indirectly to market transactions, but are not represented by their practitioners as relating directly to environmental or sustainability goals. These practices represent exuberant, appealing and socially inclusive, but also unforced, forms of sustainability. This case further demonstrates the severe limitations of decision makers' focus on economics and behaviour change, and their neglect of other dimensions of social life and change in developing environmental policies.

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Sustainability schizophrenia or “actually existing sustainabilities?” toward a broader understanding of the politics and promise of local sustainability in the US

Cited by 146 publications

References 13 publications

Functions of sustainability: exploring what urban sustainability policy discourse “does” in the Gothenburg Metropolitan Area

Functions of sustainability: exploring what urban sustainability policy discourse “does” in the Gothenburg Metropolitan Area

The Sustainability of a Financialized Urban Megaproject: The Case of Sihlcity in Zurich

Quiet sustainability: Fertile lessons from Europe's productive gardeners

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