RT Journal Article
T1 Winning while Waning? The Cunning of Ecological Reason.
A1 Arias-Maldonado, Manuel Jesús
K1 Movimiento ecologista
K1 Liberalismo
AB More than 50 years have passed since the eco-emancipatory project (EEP) was launched in the wake of the silent revolution triggered by new social movements. A response to the side-effects of first (industrial) modernity, the EEP helped to shape a second (reflexive) modernity that was supposed to democratise society and liberate nature. But the EEP seems to have failed on that account – hence the post-apocalyptic turn within environmentalism. However, the fate of the EEP is more nuanced than it seems. In this paper, I argue that the latter has been by and large successfully assimilated by liberal societies. The ecomodernist response to the Anthropocene, which pursues human and nonhuman emancipation by means others than those of the EEP, attests to that. It also signals a way out of late modernity, heralding a third modernity characterised by the post-utopian management of socionatural relations in increasingly liberal albeit not fully democratic societies.
PB Sage
YR 2025
FD 2025-04-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/40889
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/40889
LA eng
NO Arias-Maldonado, M. (2025). Winning while waning? The cunning of ecological reason. European Journal of Social Theory, 28(4), 546-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310251330626 (Original work published 2025)
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/9141
NO PID2023-149342NB-I00
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 24 ene 2026