Levinson, R;
Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, D;
Bedsted, B;
Manov, B;
Hadjichambis, A;
(2020)
Political Dimensions of Environmental Citizenship.
In: Hadjichambis, A and Reis, P and Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, D and Cincera, J and Boeve-de Pauw, J and Gericke, N and Knippels, M-C, (eds.)
Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education.
(pp. 17-28).
Springer: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
Conceptions of Environmental Citizenship are core to models of sustainability. Such contested conceptions raise historically significant questions associated with the rights of the individual and the responsibility of the community to the environment. Attitudes towards sustainability beg questions of models of citizenship ranging from compliance through democratic deliberation to active dissent. Philosophical problems also intersect with Environmental Citizenship. Ecocentrism prioritises a systemic holistic view of Nature in which the human species has no privileged role. Anthropocentrism in its more liberal aspect has an instrumental view of Nature underpinned by beneficence. These divergent ideologies also presuppose metaphysical and ontological questions about the relationship between Mind and Nature, hence fundamental implications for education and citizenship more broadly. There are, of course, intermediate positions. This raises three driving questions: 1. What are the main philosophical and political positions associated with Environmental Citizenship? 2. What are the justifications underpinning particular approaches to Environmental Citizenship? 3. Can we map the main components of Environmental Citizenship to create a coherent European and Global approach to inquiry?
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Political Dimensions of Environmental Citizenship |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-030-20248-4 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-20249-1_2 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20249-1_2 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Anthropocentrism, Citizenship, Communitarianism, Ecocentrism, Green republicanism, Liberalism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10098536 |
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