The Ecology of Practice: Spatial Tactics, the Present City and the Ideology of Sustainability
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25071/1913-5874/37325Abstract
This paper will explore the link between industrial capitalism and its crafting of a contemporary ideology of sustainability as a hegemonic power structure. In doing so, I will draw upon a discursive body of criticism aimed at revealing the hegemony of sustainability (Kipfer; Spehr). I will also use the observations of a group of faculty members and design students from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the California Polytechnic University at Pomona to illustrate an existing cultural infrastructure whose ecology of practice can be used to inform an opposition to the quixotic ideal of sustainability and embrace a more well rounded ‘everyday’ practice of sustainability.
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