可持续消费与全球南方:一个概念性的阐述

Soumyajit Bhar
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尽管围绕可持续消费理念的思考引发了亲环境的消费行为,但实证研究表明,这种消费选择几乎无法降低其总消费篮子的总体环境影响。在企业主导的全球化的推动下,大多数发展中国家都采用了以增长主义和发展主义为中心的新自由主义经济模式。使情况进一步复杂化的是,这种资本主义经济模式将富人拜物教,并将塑造社会文化所持有的美好生活观念的愿望变为过度消费,尤其是在全球南方国家。关于可持续消费的讨论需要将其范围从全球北方的后物质主义话语扩大到更好地与GS的发展话语重新调整。扩大这一范围说起来容易做起来难,因为新自由主义经济政策驱动的发展主义从根本上依赖于消费主义。一旦这些宏观经济优先事项渗透到社会文化优先事项中,进一步推动个人对美好生活的感觉,将物质导向的需求满足者与幸福分离开来就变得更具挑战性。因此,它是理论化消费行为如何发生在政治经济优先事项,社会文化习俗和个人对更好生活的愿望的复杂交叉点上,这在GS的背景下更加相关。理解这些结构性因素如何通过美好生活观念的变化渗透到社会文化和个人优先事项中,并最终成为维持现行政治经济安排运行的基本维持因素,这一点至关重要,尤其是对全球南方国家而言。
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Sustainable consumption and the Global South: A conceptual exposition
Although deliberations around the idea of sustainable consumption have triggered pro-environmental consumption behaviors, empirical works show such consumption choices hardly manage to lower the overall environmental impacts of their total consumption baskets. Driven by corporate-led globalization, most developing countries have adopted the prevailing neoliberal economic model centered on growthism and developmentalism. What complicates the situation further is that this capitalistic economic model fetishizes the wealthy and valorizes aspirations that shape socio-culturally held notions of good life toward overconsumption, especially in the Global South. The discussion on sustainable consumption needs to expand its scope from the post-materialistic discourses in the Global North to realign itself better with the developmental discourse in the GS. Expanding this scope is easier said than done because of the fundamental dependency of the neo-liberal economic policy-driven developmentalism on consumerism. Once these macro-economic priorities percolate into socio-cultural priorities, further driving individuals' sense of the good life, it becomes even more challenging to decouple materialistically-oriented need-satisfiers from wellbeing. Therefore, it is to theorize how the act of consumption happens at the complex intersections of political-economic priorities, socio-cultural conventions, and individual aspirations for a better life, which is even more so relevant in the context of the GS. It is critical to understand, especially for the Global South, how these structural factors percolate into socio-cultural and individual priorities through the changing notions of the good life and eventually act as the fundamental sustaining factors that keep the prevailing political-economic arrangements running.
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