{"id":2938,"date":"2020-06-01T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/?page_id=2938"},"modified":"2023-04-04T20:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T20:22:55","slug":"thesis-emma-julia-vos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/thesis-emma-julia-vos\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Privatized, Individualized and Commodified Environmental Care in Mainstream Western Environmentalism &#8211; Emma Julia Vos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Honorable Mention, 2019-2020<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\" \/>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An increasingly presiding proposed solution to the climate crisis in Western Environmentalism <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">considers environmental degradation the product of individual shortcomings, best rectified <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">through actions that are typically individual, and routinely consumption dependent. Promoted by neoliberal logic such individualization of responsibility universalizes accountability, abstracts environmental care, and drives human-nature dualities. Entrusting neoliberal logic in monopolizing the definition of environmental care has encouraged the formation of voluntary offsetting and \u2018low environmental impact\u2019 \u2018green\u2019 brands. Here, capitalism paradoxically <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reconfigures itself to falsely propose solutions that sustain the very systems central to the climate crisis. In such propositions skewed distributions of power remain untouched or are exacerbated and surface the problematic socio-economic characteristics of neoliberal capitalism. These acts of stabilizing existing order through market compatible \u2018sustainability\u2019 legitimizes oppressive paradigms, structures and epistemologies through \u2018carbon colonialism\u2019 and competition favoring economic order. This thesis examines why it is necessary to liberate our environmental imaginaries from neoliberal logic. I argue that we must radically rethink commodified environmental care, and move towards participatory democracies inspired by those proposed in indigenous led alternatives.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honorable Mention, 2019-2020 Abstract An increasingly presiding proposed solution to the climate crisis in Western Environmentalism considers environmental degradation the product of individual shortcomings, best rectified through actions that are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2938","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pawx0u-Lo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2938\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/glue\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}