The Sustainability of Society: Semantics of a Concept
Content Type
Título alternativo
- La sustentabilidad de la sociedad: semántica de un concepto
Faculty
Carrera/Programa
- Doctorado en Procesos e Instituciones Políticas
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- Doctor en Procesos e Instituciones Políticas
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- Tesis monográfica
Subjects
Keywords
- Sustainability
- Social ecology
Descriptores
- Obras de graduación UAI
- Sustentabilidad de la sociedad
Abstract
This manuscript enquires into the emergence, meaning and performance of the
semantics of sustainability within contemporary society. More precisely, my purpose is to
identify the core conceptual structure of sustainability, as well as to describe and explain its
performative effects, particularly focusing in the domains of science and politics. My
guiding premise is that despite its significant ambiguity -or even because of such ambiguity-
the concept of sustainability has the ability to enable and coordinate forms of
communication and societal coordination while precluding or ignoring others.
I refrain, at this stage, to provide a definition of sustainability. Nonetheless, I do
specify that I will call ‘concept of sustainability’ or ‘sustainability semantics’ any word or
expression which either contains the term ‘sustainability’ or ‘sustainable’, in any of their
possible grammatical variations, or points out to an idea or a phenomenon generally
recognizable as concerning sustainability.
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