The Insuperable Imperative: A Critique of the Ecologically Modernizing State

Davidson, Stewart

doi:10.1080/10455752.2012.674147

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“…This is what happens in the case of inclusive states that facilitate deliberation in the public sphere and the incorporation of public opinion into policy (Dryzek et al, 2003), where there is less democratic vitality and more social homogenisation. Davidson (2012) rightly notes that both theories of strong ecological modernisation and the green state assume that the legitimation imperative will counterbalance the accumulation imperative. In Eckersley's account, this means that ecological modernisation depends on the ecological democratisation of societies, as I mentioned earlier.…”

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Should Ecological Citizenship Advocates Praise the Green State?

Melo-Escrihuela¹

2015

Environmental Values

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Environmental Values Environmental Values is an international peer-reviewed journal that brings together contributions from philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, geography, anthropology, ecology and other disciplines, which relate to the present and future environment of human beings and other species. In doing so we aim to clarify the relationship between practical policy issues and more fundamental underlying principles or assumptions.

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Should Ecological Citizenship Advocates Praise the Green State?

Melo-Escrihuela¹

2015

Environmental Values

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“…Perhaps the most intriguing assumption contained in EM theorizing is that human ingenuity in the name of environmental sustainability can light a pathway out of the 'darkness' of environmental degradation. To be precise, in the EM imagination it is technological innovation that has traditionally stood as the 'silver bullet' for resolving environmental problems (Davidson, 2012). This was especially true in early writing on EM -particularly the work of Huber (1982Huber ( , 1985 -that envisioned a technology-aided switch from 'dirtier' forms of industrialization to 'clean' , super-industrial methods of production.…”

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The greening of golf

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Wilson²

2016

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Introduction and tools for seeing golf sociologically 1 1 Introduction: approaching golf and environmental issues 3 2 Light green to dark green: how to make sense of responses to environmental problems 27 Part II: Background and history 49 3 Waging a war on pests: golf comes to America 51 4 Golf in consumer culture and the making of Augusta National syndrome 71 Part III: The light-greening of golf 89 5 The turn to responsible golf and the roots of golf 's light-green movement 91 6 Environmentalism incorporated: professionalization and post-politics in the time of responsible golf 7 Light-green regulation? Environmental managerialism and golf 's conspicuous exemption Part IV: The dark-greening of golf 8 Anti-golfers across the world unite! Global and local forms of resistance to golf course development 9 Organic golf 'on the fringe': the potential and challenges of a chemical-free golf alternative Contents vi Part V: Conclusion 10 Reflections, recommendations, and minor utopian visions for a game we love

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“…That resembles the reduction of the complexity of ecosystems to the narrow language of money and the techno-bureaucracy of computer models that characterise today's prevailing approaches to environmental regulation and management. Hegelian ideals have actually inspired the neopragmatism of ecological modernisation (Davidson, 2012), whose "normalisation of practices tends to obscure their philosophical premises and the separation of theory from practise, finance from politics, policy from implementation" (Irwin, 2007: 648). Hegelianism is largely centred on the spreading of universalisms among particularities and a subtle legitimacy through the homogenisation of politics and the promotion of reason.…”

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Theorizing state-environment relationships

Ioris

2014

Progress in Human Geography

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Scholarly work in geography has often fallen short of establishing the politicized connections between socio-ecological pressures, spatial dynamics and the changing patterns of the state apparatus. It is still necessary to better examine the failures of the responses to ecological problems in relation to the underlying politico-ideological factors that constrain state interventions. Environmental governance has been particularly influenced by Hegelian political theories about flexibility and legitimacy. The persistence of problems largely derives from the idealism of the Hegelian constitutional plan, which has facilitated the advance of capitalism over the more-than-human spheres of socionature mediated and promoted by the contemporary state.

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The Insuperable Imperative: A Critique of the Ecologically Modernizing State

Cited by 17 publications

References 35 publications

Should Ecological Citizenship Advocates Praise the Green State?

Should Ecological Citizenship Advocates Praise the Green State?

The greening of golf

Theorizing state-environment relationships

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