Beyond Sustainable Development to Sustainable Societies: Insights from Feminist and Indigenous Theories and Praxis
Year: 2025
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Drawing on feminist, indigenous, and abolitionist thinkers, I suggest that we need a fundamental transformation in how and what we produce, consume, and redistribute and how we relate to each other and to all living and nonliving entities on this earth. This means going beyond sustainable development, a one-size-fits-all model based on neoliberal, market-based growth, to conceptualize place- and culture-specific sustainable societies. I define sustainable societies along three dimensions: economic, epistemic, and political. Sustainable societies are one articulation of eco-social contracts.
Source: Springer eBooks
Author: Manisha Desai
Institution: Stony Brook University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7128926221