Descripción del proyecto
Un análisis más detallado sobre la sostenibilidad y la transformación social
Las sociedades capitalistas modernas dañan el medio natural, pero las sociedades evolucionan constantemente. La transformación social puede cambiar las sociedades para que sean sostenibles. El proyecto UNMAKING, financiado con fondos europeos, investigará si, cuándo y cómo las innovaciones de base radicales desmantelan instituciones medioambientalmente perjudiciales que están profundamente arraigadas en las sociedades capitalistas. Comparará las innovaciones de base radicales italianas y alemanas en la agricultura a fin de identificar y categorizar los mecanismos de desmantelamiento. El objetivo es explicar si y cómo el desmantelamiento genera espacios para alternativas a nivel individual y socioecológico. El proyecto también desarrollará una teoría sobre el desmantelamiento en la transformación de la sociedad en pos de la sostenibilidad. En conjunto, el proyecto ampliará los límites de nuestra comprensión de la transformación y la sostenibilidad.
Objetivo
Modern capitalist societies engage destructively with the natural environment. Societal transformation to sustainability is urged, but it implies a degree of disruption of modern, capitalist ways of being and doing. Radical grassroots innovations – those that posit a profound cultural, economic, and political transformation of dominant institutions and practices - hold the potential to lead such transformation, but may be constrained by their marginal, local, small-scale character.
This programme aims to understand to what extent, under what conditions, and through what processes radical grassroots innovations unmake modern, capitalist institutions and practices. This research will compare Italian and German radical grassroots innovations in agriculture to: (1) identify and categorize mechanisms of unmaking that are involved in radical grassroots innovations; (2) explain whether and how unmaking creates space for alternatives from the individual to the social-ecological level; (3) understand how mechanisms of unmaking at different levels interplay; (4) explain why unmaking may result in different outcomes in different context; (5) develop a theory of unmaking in societal transformation to sustainability.This research is ground breaking as it (1) approaches societal transformation from the perspective of unmaking of dominant institutions, rather than of the introduction of innovations, (2) mobilizes theories that have so far not been considered, and innovatively integrates theories and levels of analysis, (3) originally employs mixed methods that capture trajectories of change, and enable to generalize causal mechanisms in complex social-ecological systems. This programme will push the boundaries of our understanding of transformation to sustainability. It will generate scientific knowledge that will be relevant across the social sciences, offer a theoretical lens –unmaking-, and test a process-tracing methodological approach to stimulate interdisciplinary research.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
3584 CS Utrecht
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