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Universities, Sustainability, and Neoliberalism: Contradictions of the Climate Emergency Declarations
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Abstract UK universities have been successively declaring a climate emergency, following the University of Bristol's lead in 2019. Universities are key actors in climate change education, and potentially progressive organisations researching, teaching and implementing low carbon futures. Using universities' ... mehr
UK universities have been successively declaring a climate emergency, following the University of Bristol's lead in 2019. Universities are key actors in climate change education, and potentially progressive organisations researching, teaching and implementing low carbon futures. Using universities' sustainability strategies, we present a secondary analysis identifying neoliberalism’s significant role in influencing universities' sustainability policies and practices. This plays out through university boosterism where universities use their sustainability work to claim sustainability leadership, representing a form of sustainability capital to attract funding and potential students. Furthermore, we suggest a cognitive-practice gap exists between those researching sustainability and those implementing sustainability in universities. Thus, we conclude that there are inherent tensions in universities' sustainability governance, with universities embodying contradictory sustainability discourses and advancing a form of green capital. Entrenched neoliberal ideologies present challenges for those declaring a climate emergency and how such declarations are subsequently operationalised.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Großbritannien; Klimawandel; Klimaschutz; Universität; Notlage; Hochschulbildung; Nachhaltigkeit; Hochschulpolitik
Klassifikation
Ökologie und Umwelt
Bildungswesen tertiärer Bereich
Freie Schlagwörter
United Kingdom; climate change; climate emergency; neoliberalism; sustainability; universities
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 29-40
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 9 (2021) 2
Heftthema
Is There a New Climate Politics? Emergency, Engagement and Justice
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)