TY - JOUR
T1 - Civic Ecologism
T2 - Environmental Politics in Cities
AU - Barak, Nir
N1 - Funding Information:
Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the ?Philosophy of the City? conference in Portland (2015) and in the workshop ?Reframing Environmentalism? Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene? sponsored by the ECPR Joint Session of Workshops in Pisa (2016). I would like to thank all participants for their fruitful comments and especially the organizer of the conference Shane Epting and directors of the workshop Manuel Arias Maldonado and John Barry, and Jeremy Bendik Keymer and Dotan Halevy for their comments on drafts of this paper. I am indebted to the ongoing support and encouragement of Avner de Shalit. Finally, I would like to extend my gratitude to the Minerva Centre for Human Rights at the Hebrew University and its Human Rights under Pressure program for their ongoing support throughout this project.
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PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - This paper accepts Ecologism’s basic argument that sustainable existence implies radical change in our relationship with the nonhuman world and in our social and political lives, and seeks to ascertain what ecologism implies for the city. The social and political aspects involved in transitioning a city to sustainable patterns are analyzed by scrutinizing three facets of the relationship between cities and the natural environment. The paper concludes with an analysis of the political and normative implications of these relations and argues that transitioning cities into sustainable patterns requires a more profound civic politics of urban sustainability.
AB - This paper accepts Ecologism’s basic argument that sustainable existence implies radical change in our relationship with the nonhuman world and in our social and political lives, and seeks to ascertain what ecologism implies for the city. The social and political aspects involved in transitioning a city to sustainable patterns are analyzed by scrutinizing three facets of the relationship between cities and the natural environment. The paper concludes with an analysis of the political and normative implications of these relations and argues that transitioning cities into sustainable patterns requires a more profound civic politics of urban sustainability.
KW - urban sustainability
KW - urban politics
KW - environmental ethics
KW - enviornmental political theory
KW - urban political ecology
KW - natural city
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U2 - 10.1080/21550085.2020.1746005
DO - 10.1080/21550085.2020.1746005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084261432
SN - 2155-0085
VL - 23
SP - 53
EP - 69
JO - Ethics, Policy and Environment
JF - Ethics, Policy and Environment
IS - 1
ER -
