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The Neoliberalisation of Sustainability
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Sustainability – embedded in intergovernmental global agreements and filtering, reassuringly, into ‘common sense’ – is now the globally dominant environmental discourse. However, this dominance does not equate with the mainstreaming of its original meaning that is tied up with a radical critique of capitalism that crystallised in movements of both the South and the North in the 1970s. Rather, radical sustainability discourse has been effectively neutralised by its ‘articulation’ with the neoliberal capitalist project. This article examines this articulatory shift, focusing particularly on a post-Marxist neo-Gramscian inspired discourse analysis of the key documents of intergovernmental global agreement. The article argues for the rearticulation of sustainability to a new counter-hegemonic ‘reimagining’ of nature.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tulloch, L., & Neilson, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Waikato (NZ)
- Venue
- Citizenship, Social and Economics Education
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2014-01-01
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 26-38
- ISSN
- 1478-8047 (ISSN-L)
- 2047-1734
- OpenAlex
- W2088239457
- Cited by
- 74
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 3.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Citizenship Social and Economics Education (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Economic and Social Issues
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political theory and Gramsci
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Economy and Marxism
- Keywords
- neoliberalism, sustainability, environmental discourse, critique of capitalism, counter-hegemony, post-Marxism, global environmental governance
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