Andrew Dobson
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199258444
- eISBN:
- 9780191601002
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199258449.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
Ecological citizenship cannot be fully articulated in either liberal or civic republican terms. It is, rather, an example and an inflection of ‘post‐cosmopolitan’ citizenship. Ecological citizenship ...
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Ecological citizenship cannot be fully articulated in either liberal or civic republican terms. It is, rather, an example and an inflection of ‘post‐cosmopolitan’ citizenship. Ecological citizenship focuses on duties as well as rights, and its conception of political space is not the state or the municipality, or the ideal speech community of cosmopolitanism, but the ‘ecological footprint’.Ecological citizenship contrasts with fiscal incentives as a way of encouraging people to act more sustainably, in the belief that the former is more compatible with the long‐term and deeper shifts of attitude and behaviour that sustainability requires. This book offers an original account of the relationship between liberalism and sustainability, arguing that the former's commitment to a plurality of conceptions of the good entails a commitment to so‐called ‘strong’ forms of the latter.How to make an ecological citizen? The potential of formal high school citizenship education programmes is examined through a case study of the recent implementation of the compulsory citizenship curriculum in the UK.Less
Ecological citizenship cannot be fully articulated in either liberal or civic republican terms. It is, rather, an example and an inflection of ‘post‐cosmopolitan’ citizenship. Ecological citizenship focuses on duties as well as rights, and its conception of political space is not the state or the municipality, or the ideal speech community of cosmopolitanism, but the ‘ecological footprint’.
Ecological citizenship contrasts with fiscal incentives as a way of encouraging people to act more sustainably, in the belief that the former is more compatible with the long‐term and deeper shifts of attitude and behaviour that sustainability requires. This book offers an original account of the relationship between liberalism and sustainability, arguing that the former's commitment to a plurality of conceptions of the good entails a commitment to so‐called ‘strong’ forms of the latter.
How to make an ecological citizen? The potential of formal high school citizenship education programmes is examined through a case study of the recent implementation of the compulsory citizenship curriculum in the UK.
Andrew Dobson
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199258444
- eISBN:
- 9780191601002
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199258449.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
Ecological citizenship is presented as an example and inflection of post‐cosmopolitan citizenship. It is contrasted with environmental citizenship. The ecological footprint is presented as the ...
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Ecological citizenship is presented as an example and inflection of post‐cosmopolitan citizenship. It is contrasted with environmental citizenship. The ecological footprint is presented as the ecological citizenship's version of political space, and global warming is used to exemplify the asymmetrical relations of globalising cause‐and‐effect that call forth post‐cosmopolitan obligations.Less
Ecological citizenship is presented as an example and inflection of post‐cosmopolitan citizenship. It is contrasted with environmental citizenship. The ecological footprint is presented as the ecological citizenship's version of political space, and global warming is used to exemplify the asymmetrical relations of globalising cause‐and‐effect that call forth post‐cosmopolitan obligations.
Andrew Dobson
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199258444
- eISBN:
- 9780191601002
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199258449.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
Fiscal incentives for encouraging sustainable behaviour are contrasted with citizenship approaches. The distinction between environmental and ecological citizenship and the notion of ...
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Fiscal incentives for encouraging sustainable behaviour are contrasted with citizenship approaches. The distinction between environmental and ecological citizenship and the notion of ‘post‐cosmopolitanism’ are introduced. The relationship between citizenship, democracy, and sustainability is discussed.Less
Fiscal incentives for encouraging sustainable behaviour are contrasted with citizenship approaches. The distinction between environmental and ecological citizenship and the notion of ‘post‐cosmopolitanism’ are introduced. The relationship between citizenship, democracy, and sustainability is discussed.
Derek Heater
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748622252
- eISBN:
- 9780748671960
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748622252.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This book is an historical introduction to the varieties of citizenship in Britain, starting in the Middle Ages and bringing the story right up to the present day. Both the status and understanding ...
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This book is an historical introduction to the varieties of citizenship in Britain, starting in the Middle Ages and bringing the story right up to the present day. Both the status and understanding of citizenship in practice and the theoretical and advisory writings on the subject are introduced, and their inter-relationships are explored. Among the key themes to be examined are: local and national strata; the issue of parliamentary suffrage; women excluded and included as citizens; the influence of classical ideas; nationhood and imperialism; the role of political and social theorists; interpretations by modern political parties; the role of education; environmental citizenship; multiculturalism; globalisation; and human rights. Organised chronologically, each chapter is divided into sections in order to present the reader with different themes in a manageable form. The book is unique in its historical coverage of citizenship in Britain — moving from the Middle Ages to the present day. It reveals the great complexity of the development of citizenship in Britain and demonstrates the importance of an historical perspective in understanding the issue of citizenship in Britain today.Less
This book is an historical introduction to the varieties of citizenship in Britain, starting in the Middle Ages and bringing the story right up to the present day. Both the status and understanding of citizenship in practice and the theoretical and advisory writings on the subject are introduced, and their inter-relationships are explored. Among the key themes to be examined are: local and national strata; the issue of parliamentary suffrage; women excluded and included as citizens; the influence of classical ideas; nationhood and imperialism; the role of political and social theorists; interpretations by modern political parties; the role of education; environmental citizenship; multiculturalism; globalisation; and human rights. Organised chronologically, each chapter is divided into sections in order to present the reader with different themes in a manageable form. The book is unique in its historical coverage of citizenship in Britain — moving from the Middle Ages to the present day. It reveals the great complexity of the development of citizenship in Britain and demonstrates the importance of an historical perspective in understanding the issue of citizenship in Britain today.
Finis Dunaway
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226169903
- eISBN:
- 9780226169934
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226169934.003.0015
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
This chapter views Earth Day 1990 through three broad contextual lenses—the dramatic expansion of recycling and green consumerism; the media’s marginalization of the environmental justice movement; ...
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This chapter views Earth Day 1990 through three broad contextual lenses—the dramatic expansion of recycling and green consumerism; the media’s marginalization of the environmental justice movement; and the end of the Cold War—to understand how popular environmentalism intersected with the emotional life of capitalism. The chapter moves back and forth between The Earth Day Special, a star-studded TV program that ABC aired during primetime on the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day, and other media texts that stressed the personal and psychological dimensions of environmentalism. Indeed, what makes The Earth Day Special so telling as a cultural text is how it merged so seamlessly with the larger media extravaganza of that day. Across a wide variety of visual and cultural fields, spectators were repeatedly urged to seek both personal therapy and a sense of political empowerment through individual action. From the popular guidebooks listing what you could do to save the planet to the endorsement of green consumerism by Earth Day organizers, lifestyle decisions and the marketplace became the dominant sites of environmental activity. During this pivotal moment, mainstream depictions of the movement worked to enshrine neoliberal models of environmental citizenship.Less
This chapter views Earth Day 1990 through three broad contextual lenses—the dramatic expansion of recycling and green consumerism; the media’s marginalization of the environmental justice movement; and the end of the Cold War—to understand how popular environmentalism intersected with the emotional life of capitalism. The chapter moves back and forth between The Earth Day Special, a star-studded TV program that ABC aired during primetime on the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day, and other media texts that stressed the personal and psychological dimensions of environmentalism. Indeed, what makes The Earth Day Special so telling as a cultural text is how it merged so seamlessly with the larger media extravaganza of that day. Across a wide variety of visual and cultural fields, spectators were repeatedly urged to seek both personal therapy and a sense of political empowerment through individual action. From the popular guidebooks listing what you could do to save the planet to the endorsement of green consumerism by Earth Day organizers, lifestyle decisions and the marketplace became the dominant sites of environmental activity. During this pivotal moment, mainstream depictions of the movement worked to enshrine neoliberal models of environmental citizenship.
Finis Dunaway
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226169903
- eISBN:
- 9780226169934
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226169934.003.0017
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
The introduction begins with an overview of the book’s methods, sources, and argument. Rather than presenting pictures as mere illustrations, this book instead considers images as active rhetorical ...
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The introduction begins with an overview of the book’s methods, sources, and argument. Rather than presenting pictures as mere illustrations, this book instead considers images as active rhetorical agents. Media images do not simply illustrate environmental politics, but also act as politics by naturalizing particular meanings of environmentalism. Following this discussion, the introduction outlines the book’s three major themes: the emotions and public life; the shifting meanings of environmental citizenship; and the limits of media representation. Often missing from other histories of environmentalism, these themes help illuminate the prospects and limits of mainstream images. The introduction also discusses some of the recurring motifs in popular environmental imagery: the focus on children as emblems of universal vulnerability; the emphasis on individual action and personal responsibility; and the neglect of power relations and structural inequities. Finally, the introduction explains the concept of slow violence and notes the representational challenges posed by the gradually-escalating problems of the environmental crisis.Less
The introduction begins with an overview of the book’s methods, sources, and argument. Rather than presenting pictures as mere illustrations, this book instead considers images as active rhetorical agents. Media images do not simply illustrate environmental politics, but also act as politics by naturalizing particular meanings of environmentalism. Following this discussion, the introduction outlines the book’s three major themes: the emotions and public life; the shifting meanings of environmental citizenship; and the limits of media representation. Often missing from other histories of environmentalism, these themes help illuminate the prospects and limits of mainstream images. The introduction also discusses some of the recurring motifs in popular environmental imagery: the focus on children as emblems of universal vulnerability; the emphasis on individual action and personal responsibility; and the neglect of power relations and structural inequities. Finally, the introduction explains the concept of slow violence and notes the representational challenges posed by the gradually-escalating problems of the environmental crisis.
Finis Dunaway
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226169903
- eISBN:
- 9780226169934
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226169934.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
This chapter considers the origins, meanings, and circulation of the most popular environmental quote to emerge during the period surrounding Earth Day 1970: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” ...
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This chapter considers the origins, meanings, and circulation of the most popular environmental quote to emerge during the period surrounding Earth Day 1970: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Created by the cartoonist Walt Kelly and featured in a poster and his Pogo comic strip, the statement tapped into an important strand of U.S. environmentalism—the emphasis placed upon individual action. At the very moment that the state expanded its role to protect the citizenry from environmental danger, Pogo and other media texts imagined politics in an individualist frame by stressing the personal dimensions of environmental citizenship. Pogo helped popularize environmental guilt, making this emotion central to mainstream framings of the environmental cause. While gas masks conveyed the idea of universal vulnerability, Pogo evoked the notion of universal responsibility, a perspective that ignored the systemic causes of the environmental crisis and constrained the meanings of environmental citizenship.Less
This chapter considers the origins, meanings, and circulation of the most popular environmental quote to emerge during the period surrounding Earth Day 1970: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Created by the cartoonist Walt Kelly and featured in a poster and his Pogo comic strip, the statement tapped into an important strand of U.S. environmentalism—the emphasis placed upon individual action. At the very moment that the state expanded its role to protect the citizenry from environmental danger, Pogo and other media texts imagined politics in an individualist frame by stressing the personal dimensions of environmental citizenship. Pogo helped popularize environmental guilt, making this emotion central to mainstream framings of the environmental cause. While gas masks conveyed the idea of universal vulnerability, Pogo evoked the notion of universal responsibility, a perspective that ignored the systemic causes of the environmental crisis and constrained the meanings of environmental citizenship.
Karen Thornber
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824836924
- eISBN:
- 9780824871109
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824836924.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter examines how Japanese literature grapples with environmental pollution by focusing on two texts: Ishimure Michiko's 1969 novel Kugai jōdo: Waga Minamatabyō (Sea of suffering and the Pure ...
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This chapter examines how Japanese literature grapples with environmental pollution by focusing on two texts: Ishimure Michiko's 1969 novel Kugai jōdo: Waga Minamatabyō (Sea of suffering and the Pure Land: Our Minamata disease) and the anthology Genbakushi 181 ninshū, 1945–2007 nen (Atomic bomb poetry: Collection of 181 people, 1945–2007, 2007), edited by Nagatsu Kōzaburō, Suzuki Hisao, and Yamamoto Toshio. Sea of Suffering deals with the Minamata disease and explores some of the paradoxes of negotiating nonhuman suffering amid human anguish, whereas Atomic Bomb Poetry tells the story of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and probes the ambiguity of negotiating nonhuman regeneration amid human suffering. The two works' many references to global human and nonhuman affliction advocate what Ursula Heise has identified as eco-cosmopolitanism, or “environmental world citizenship.” They also depict people as both determined polluters and haplessly polluted, harmed, and even killed by damaged environments.Less
This chapter examines how Japanese literature grapples with environmental pollution by focusing on two texts: Ishimure Michiko's 1969 novel Kugai jōdo: Waga Minamatabyō (Sea of suffering and the Pure Land: Our Minamata disease) and the anthology Genbakushi 181 ninshū, 1945–2007 nen (Atomic bomb poetry: Collection of 181 people, 1945–2007, 2007), edited by Nagatsu Kōzaburō, Suzuki Hisao, and Yamamoto Toshio. Sea of Suffering deals with the Minamata disease and explores some of the paradoxes of negotiating nonhuman suffering amid human anguish, whereas Atomic Bomb Poetry tells the story of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and probes the ambiguity of negotiating nonhuman regeneration amid human suffering. The two works' many references to global human and nonhuman affliction advocate what Ursula Heise has identified as eco-cosmopolitanism, or “environmental world citizenship.” They also depict people as both determined polluters and haplessly polluted, harmed, and even killed by damaged environments.
