Sustainability Capitalism 4: Neoliberal Natures and Beyond
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Date: 3/25/2023
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Silver, Sheraton, I.M. Pei Tower, Mezzanine Level
Type: Paper,
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Sponsor Group(s):
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, Development Geographies Specialty Group, Economic Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
W. Nathan Green National University of Singapore
Miles Kenney-Lazar National University of Singapore
Chair(s):
Miles Kenney-Lazar National University of Singapore
Description:
Globalizing, neoliberal capitalism is rightly blamed for producing a wide range of contemporary problems: grinding poverty, widening inequality, and apocalyptic climate change. However, capitalism is, if anything, an adaptable set of political-economic and social relations, capable of transforming by absorbing its critiques. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the rapid rise of market-based approaches for achieving social and environmental sustainability, particularly in response to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals of 2015. Financial markets have been created to solve pressing social and ecological problems while global production networks are increasingly governed by corporate Environment, Social, and Governance frameworks. Together, these multi-trillion dollar markets in sustainability seem poised to significantly transform the capitalist system. As many geographers have demonstrated, sustainability projects often fail to solve the problems at hand and often exacerbate them, leading to new, sometimes more disastrous, environmental and social consequences. Despite extensive critiques of sustainability approaches within capitalism, however, there has been limited analysis of how social and environmental objectives are being completely subsumed, internalized, and distorted within capitalist regimes of accumulation, or what we refer to as “sustainability capitalism.” These panel and paper sessions aim to highlight research on the intersection of sustainability projects, market-formation, and capitalist transformation.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Mark Usher |
Branching out: trees, hegemony and natural capital |
Conchúr Ó Maonaigh |
Electric vehicle transitions and the emerging spaces of sustainability capitalism in Dublin, Ireland. |
Olivia Meyer, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
Volumetrics and Plastic Waste: The Contradictions of Microplastics in the Circular Economy |
Ellie Cleasby, University of Washington |
Beyond neoliberal sustainability: the Capitol Hill Organized Protest and local homesteading as sustainability activism |
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Sustainability Capitalism 4: Neoliberal Natures and Beyond
Description
Type: Paper,
Date: 3/25/2023
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Silver, Sheraton, I.M. Pei Tower, Mezzanine Level
Contact the Primary Organizer
W. Nathan Green National University of Singapore
geowng@nus.edu.sg
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