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Situated sustainability: a research programme for conflict-affected settings and beyond
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
Abstract Sustainability is not a universal concept. Instead, research should acknowledge that it is anchored and expressed in many different variations of local practices, understandings and imaginations of resource use across and within significantly different contexts.
Presently, the SDG discourse superse... mehr
Sustainability is not a universal concept. Instead, research should acknowledge that it is anchored and expressed in many different variations of local practices, understandings and imaginations of resource use across and within significantly different contexts.
Presently, the SDG discourse supersedes other understandings of sustainability. Even where it claims to be participatory, it tends to streamline visions and practices of sustainable living along SDG-principles. Researchers should seek deep engagement with stakeholders and disadvantaged communities who are not being given a voice in these processes (slum-dwellers, undocumented migrants, etc.).
Researchers, policy and development practitioners should make efforts to balance the ecological bias in sustainability research and implementing practice and acknowledge insights from social science and interdisciplinary fields such as urban planning, peace and conflict research as well as forced migration/ refugee studies.
Situating sustainability means co-production of knowledge through input from academics and laypersons alike in research design, analysis, dissemination and implementing change. Urban spaces represent particularly fruitful sites for research because it is here that people of different backgrounds (e.g.migrants, the forcibly displaced, established communities) mix and competing as well as complementing ideas of sustainability might coexist.
By combining the three dimensions of the suggested research agenda, i.e., contextualizing sustainability, acknowledging alternative ideas beyond the SDGs and conducting transdisciplinary research, scholars could aid societal transformation that is not only ecological but will eventually call for socio-political changes towards more inclusive, equal and just societies. The research agenda of Situated Sustainability could mitigate associated ethical risks.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
soziale Faktoren; Gewalt; Konflikt; Migration; sozioökonomische Entwicklung; sozioökonomische Struktur; nachhaltige Entwicklung; sozialer Wandel
Klassifikation
Ökologie und Umwelt
soziale Probleme
Freie Schlagwörter
Gesellschaftsentwicklung; Gesellschaftsstruktur; weltweit; global; dauerhafte Entwicklung; Sustainable Development Goals
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Erscheinungsort
Bonn
Seitenangabe
7 S.
Schriftenreihe
BICC Policy Brief, 10/2018
ISSN
2521-7801
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 3.0