Interpretations of Sustainability beyond the Middle Class

Autor/in	Beasy, Kim
Titel	Interpretations of Sustainability beyond the Middle Class
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 36 (2020) 3, S.246-263 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Beasy, Kim)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0814-0626
DOI	10.1017/aee.2019.25
Schlagwörter	Sustainability; Discourse Analysis; Rhetoric; Social Class; Foreign Countries; Hermeneutics; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltigkeit; Diskursanalyse; Rhetorik; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Ausland; Hermeneutik; Australien
Abstract	Critical discourses of sustainability challenge modern rhetoric of economic growth and challenge current modes of social development. Yet sustainability discourses are shaped predominantly by the perspectives and interests of middle-class, tertiary-educated urban policy makers or environmentalists, and have insufficiently engaged people beyond these cohorts, even in the advanced capitalist societies where they have originated. This article shares findings from a study that investigated how people who are not strongly engaged with sustainability discourses understand and engage with many of the underlying concerns that animate these discourses from the context of their situated, everyday experiences. This is important information for sustainability educators, because it challenges dominant ideas of what sustainability is and offers new and alternate ways of engaging different groups of people in actions for sustainability. Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, field and capital were used to inform the research design that employed focus groups and interviews with people from a range of socio-economic and cultural backgrounds and life stages in Tasmania, Australia. The findings provide insight into the ways in which people who are disengaged from discourses of sustainability may be actively engaged in practices of sustainability that may provide practical guidance for environmentalists and policy makers concerning how current discourses of sustainability reflect specific social contexts and experiences. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01