Research on Sustainability : The Academic Journal of the Research Center for Sustainability

遂行型正義

サステナビリティ

environmental justice

performative justice

sustainability

What we shall sustain, for whom? These questions have underpinned the veracity of the enduring notion of sustainability as just and fair sets of moral standards and ethical practices. However, answers to these questions continue to face challenges from two global-scale re-conceptualizations. One comes in the forms of sustainability as an objective / objectified sustainability science. The second comes through the appropriation of the meanings of sustainability by neoliberalized market economies, reifying sustainability into codes that gloss capitalism’s ecological contradictions. Recent academic and practitioner explorations of core principles of and practices in critical socio-environmental justice have made linkages between these core principles of and practices with historizing the aspirations and resistances of everyday living. Focusing on such a historical context between sustainability and justice, this paper examines current discussions of justice which engage spatial-temporal scales – from local to global, and from past to future generations. Integrating criticality, history, and quotidian lifeway aspirations and resistances constellate into both an argument and a research agenda that invites documenting how people in everyday lives have come to find and then narrate their senses of justice as they seek to sustain the lives that they have reason to value. As such, this paper also lays out explicit conceptual and methodological elements towards theorizing the study of a quotidian, historicized environmental justice, and offers suggestions for future research.

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