Open AccessPolitical space of ecological citizenship
Author(s) -
Jelena Vasiljević
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
filozofija i društvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2334-8577
pISSN - 0353-5738
DOI - 10.2298/fid1201102v
Subject(s) - citizenship , politics , context (archaeology) , space (punctuation) , sociology , perspective (graphical) , focus (optics) , epistemology , relation (database) , action (physics) , environmental ethics , political science , law , computer science , geography , artificial intelligence , philosophy , linguistics , physics , archaeology , optics , quantum mechanics , database
This paper examines the concept of ecological citizenship by looking at two sets of arguments. Those justifying the concept itself, and those criticizing the need to devise a new concept of citizenship and political community in relation to ecological problems. The paper argues for a shift in focus: instead of searching for (or readily dismissing) a new concept of citizenship, we should adopt a different perspective capable of capturing the explanatory potentials of citizenship-related notions – especially citizenship action and political space in which it is constituted – in the context of contemporary global ecological problems