Tackling material dependency in sustainability transition: rationales and insights from the agriculture sector

IF 2.9 3区 社会学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
L. Pellizzoni, Laura Centemeri
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Human material dependency is hardly questioned as such. However, there are different understandings of humans’ connection with their biophysical milieu. In this paper, we discuss four basic accounts, which differ according to whether dependency and agency are assumed to be strong or weak. Though these accounts, which we label as Cartesian, Kantian, Spinozian and Adornian, are ideal-typical, we argue they express a cognitive path dependency that can be detected in the diverse ways the transition to sustainability is pursued. To show the heuristic value of the typology we focus on agriculture, as a field of major relevance in this regard. The first three rationales, respectively underpinning industrial agriculture, ecosystem services and earth restoration programmes, see material dependency as a problem to which the reply is mastering the world, though such mastery is understood differently. The fourth one, which underpins peasant agroecology, sees dependency as a constitutive – that is, unavoidable and formative – limitation, pointing to a caring, friendly attitude. We argue this outlook is crucial to a sustainability transition, and give a clue to the governance approach that may help support it.
解决可持续转型中的物质依赖:来自农业部门的基本原理和见解
人类对物质的依赖是毋庸置疑的。然而,对于人类与其生物物理环境的联系,人们有不同的理解。在本文中,我们讨论了四种基本的解释,根据依赖和代理是强还是弱的假设而有所不同。尽管这些被我们称为笛卡尔式、康德式、斯宾诺莎式和阿多式的描述是理想典型的,但我们认为它们表达了一种认知路径依赖,这种依赖可以通过追求向可持续性过渡的各种方式来检测。为了展示类型学的启发式价值,我们将重点放在农业上,作为这方面的主要相关领域。前三个基本原理分别是工业化农业、生态系统服务和地球恢复计划的基础,它们将物质依赖视为一个问题,对这个问题的回答是控制世界,尽管对这种控制的理解不同。第四种观点是农民生态农业的基础,认为依赖是一种构成性的——也就是说,是不可避免的和形成性的——限制,指向一种关心、友好的态度。我们认为,这种前景对可持续转型至关重要,并为可能有助于支持可持续转型的治理方法提供了线索。
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