1st Edition

Critical Sustainability Sciences Intercultural and Emancipatory Perspectives

Edited By Stephan Rist, Patrick Bottazzi, Johanna Jacobi Copyright 2024
324 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores Critical Sustainability Sciences, a new field of scientific inquiry into sustainability issues. It builds on a highly novel integration of elements from relational ontologies, critical theory, political ecology, and intercultural philosophy in support of emancipatory perspectives on sustainability and development. The book begins by uncovering the weaknesses of mainstream... Read more

Foreword by Vandana Shiva

1. Why do we need critical sustainability sciences?

Stephan Rist, Patrick Bottazzi, and Johanna Jacobi

2. Key areas for critical sustainability sciences

Stephan Rist, Patrick Bottazzi, and Johanna Jacobi

3. A culture that understands that everything is interrelated, that nothing is divided, and nothing is outside

David Choquehuanca Céspedes, and Stephan Rist (compilation and translation)

4. Relational Ontologies in health sciences and practices in India

Darshan Shankar

5. Cosmovisions and critical sustainability sciences: an African ontology of "Vurr" (an energy) amongst the Dagara of southwest Burkina Faso and northwest Ghana

David Millar, Niagia F. Santuah, and Maxwell Ba-an Tengolzor

6. Contributions of the notion of cosmosophy to the formulation of critical sustainability sciences

Jéssica Sepúlveda Pizarro

7. Towards a "nature alliance": why sustainability must be rethought in terms of relationality

Beat Dietschy

8. Society–labor–nature: the potential of conflict

Nora Räthzel

9. Regenerative work: from commodity to collective action

Patrick Bottazzi

10. Food, food systems, and sustainability: elements of the "real food" debate in Brazil

Renato S. Maluf

11. Agroecology as a transformative approach to sustainable food systems

Florencia Spirito, Viviana Blanco, and René Montalba Navarro

12. Through the veil: a relational and participatory perspective to knowledge production and sustainability

Hugo Marcelo Zunino

13. Goethe’s scientific method: The road not taken

Isis Brook

14. Sustainable design: a critique of the tripolar sustainability model, 15 years later

Alain Findeli

15. Outlook and key topics for the construction of critical sustainability sciences

Stephan Rist, Beat Dietschy, Patrick Bottazzi, and Johanna Jacobi

Biography

Stephan Rist is Professor Emeritus of Human Geography at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Patrick Bottazzi is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geography, at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Johanna Jacobi is Professor at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where she leads the Agroecological Transitions Group.