Open AccessSocial-ecological transformation and COVID-19: the need to revisit working-class environmentalism
Author(s) -
Jonathan Friedrich,
Jana Zscheischler,
Heiko Faust
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
gaia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.563
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2625-5413
pISSN - 0940-5550
DOI - 10.14512/gaia.30.1.5
Subject(s) - environmentalism , argumentation theory , social transformation , sociology , psychological resilience , covid-19 , coping (psychology) , environmental ethics , political science , social change , epistemology , social psychology , politics , psychology , law , infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , philosophy , disease , pathology , psychiatry
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic points to unequally distributed vulnerabilities in society. Unevenly distributed disadvantages are also found in processes of a social-ecological transformation. The concept of working-class environmentalism arguably presents a way out of this deficiency through incorporating and focusing on working class and precarious people in processes of social change. We develop four theses for our argumentation to revisit working-class environmentalism and conclude that this would build social resilience for coping with future crises of the whole of society.