, Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................................ 1
1 — Conceptual issues and contradictions of sustainable development. ................................... 1
2 — Geopolitical Critiques of Sustainable Development ............................................................... 3
2.1. This Post WWII Geopolitical Project in Development. ........................................................ 3
2.2. The Asymmetry of Power between the North and the South and Colonial Continuities.
............................................................................................................................................................ 4
2.2.1. Green colonialism: sustainable development. .............................................................. 4
2.2.2. Poverty as the recent force of ecological destruction. ................................................. 4
2.3. Anthropocene as a Geopolitical Story. .................................................................................. 4
2.4. The Capitalocene: Changing the Geopolitical Lens. ........................................................... 5
2.6. Sustainable Development as an In equalizing Strain. ........................................................ 5
3 — Disciplinary Critiques of Sustainable Development ................................................................ 6
3.1. Increasing New Epistemologies: Complexity, Systems Thinking, and
Transdisciplinarity. ............................................................................................................................ 6
3.2. Post Normal Science: The Passing of Classical Scientific Models................................... 6
3.3. Holes in Reductionism and the Reality of Holism. .............................................................. 7
3.4. Epistemological De Fences: Migration of language, Method and Concept. ................... 7
3.5. Knowledge Hierarchies and Marginalization of Non-Western Epistemologies. .............. 7
3.6. The Transdisciplinarity Requirement: An Extension of Interdisciplinary Co-operation. . 8
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................. 8
References ............................................................................................................................................ 9
Introduction............................................................................................................................................ 1
1 — Conceptual issues and contradictions of sustainable development. ................................... 1
2 — Geopolitical Critiques of Sustainable Development ............................................................... 3
2.1. This Post WWII Geopolitical Project in Development. ........................................................ 3
2.2. The Asymmetry of Power between the North and the South and Colonial Continuities.
............................................................................................................................................................ 4
2.2.1. Green colonialism: sustainable development. .............................................................. 4
2.2.2. Poverty as the recent force of ecological destruction. ................................................. 4
2.3. Anthropocene as a Geopolitical Story. .................................................................................. 4
2.4. The Capitalocene: Changing the Geopolitical Lens. ........................................................... 5
2.6. Sustainable Development as an In equalizing Strain. ........................................................ 5
3 — Disciplinary Critiques of Sustainable Development ................................................................ 6
3.1. Increasing New Epistemologies: Complexity, Systems Thinking, and
Transdisciplinarity. ............................................................................................................................ 6
3.2. Post Normal Science: The Passing of Classical Scientific Models................................... 6
3.3. Holes in Reductionism and the Reality of Holism. .............................................................. 7
3.4. Epistemological De Fences: Migration of language, Method and Concept. ................... 7
3.5. Knowledge Hierarchies and Marginalization of Non-Western Epistemologies. .............. 7
3.6. The Transdisciplinarity Requirement: An Extension of Interdisciplinary Co-operation. . 8
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................. 8
References ............................................................................................................................................ 9
