谁来为环境说话,如何说话,目的是什么?

IF 2.3 1区 社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY European Journal of Social Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI:10.1177/13684310231206677
Noel Castree
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Etienne Benson的书《环境》(2020)详细介绍了现在无处不在的能指“环境”的出现和历史。正如本森所言,今天,环境以认知和规范的方式完成了所有的工作。他在书的结尾呼吁在人们居住的直接环境中培养多样性。然而,这一平凡的愿望却因他那本好书中的两处缺失而落空。一个是正确对待社会权力,以及有权势的人和组织如何在话语和物质上习惯性地削弱现有的环境多样性。另一个是与21世纪资本主义和技术科学相关的“巨人症”。本森的分析最终忽略了影响内容的关键驱动因素,以及作为能指的环境的影响。
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Who gets to speak for the environment, how and to what ends?
Etienne Benson’s book Surroundings (2020) details the emergence and history of the now ubiquitous signifier ‘the environment’. Today, the environment performs all manner of work cognitively and normatively, as Benson shows. His book ends with a plea that diversity be fostered in the immediate environments people inhabit. However, this unremarkable aspiration is foiled by two absences in his otherwise fine book. One is a proper treatment of social power and how, discursively and materially, powerful people and organisations routinely diminish existing environmental variety. The other is the ‘gigantism’ associated with twenty-first century capitalism and technoscience. Benson’s analysis, in the end, misses key drivers affecting the content and affects of the environment as a signifier.
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期刊介绍: An internationally respected journal with a wide-reaching conception of social theory, the European Journal of Social Theory brings together social theorists and theoretically-minded social scientists with the objective of making social theory relevant to the challenges facing the social sciences in the 21st century. The European Journal of Social Theory aims to be a worldwide forum of social thought. The Journal welcomes articles on all aspects of the social, covering the whole range of contemporary debates in social theory. Reflecting some of the commonalities in European intellectual life, contributors might discuss the theoretical contexts of issues such as the nation state, democracy, citizenship, risk; identity, social divisions, violence, gender and knowledge.
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