sustainability frameworks in sociology: implications for research and publications by dr emma porio
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8/13/2019 SUSTAINABILITY FRAMEWORKS IN SOCIOLOGY: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS by Dr Emma Porio
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SUSTAINABILITY
FRAMEWORKS IN SOCIOLOGY:
IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH
AND PUBLICATIONSby
Emma Porio, PhD
Professor of Sociology and Chairperson, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University. Presented at the research cluster on”Environment, Society and Sustainability ” seminar, Jan. 18, 4:30pm, LH Conference Room, Ateneo
de Manila University. Please send comments to:[email protected]
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Introduction and Key Messages
• Introduction to the Research Cluster Activity
Cluster description, goals, activities• Sustainability Frameworks in Sociology
•
Sustainability Research:1) Theory of Practices examining its
assumptions, patterns and consequences
2) Identifying transformative possibilities or
sustainable anchors for these practices
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Sustainability Frameworks: A Precis
• Sustainability Frameworks in Sociology
Environmental Sociology Sociology of Development/dev sociology
Concepts/theories of sustainable
development
• World System Theory
• Neo-Marxist “treadmill of production” theory
• Modern systems theory,
• All address development issues eventually
sustainability questions.
• Approach: Very global; the least national
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Data Bases/References
Sustainable development thinking and practices:
beginning a major societal paradigm shifttransforming social, economic, and cultural
conditionsSociology and the social sciences
shld play critical roles in documenting thispotential revolution:
a) monitoring and collecting data;
b) analyzing, explaining, identifying the patterns
of social articulations
c) providing assessments of social impacts and
related developments
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Sustainability Frameworks: In Search of
Evidence and Methodological Issues
• Global Goals vs. National-Local Practices• Search for Cases and Evidence
• Heavily Macro; Need for more Meso and
Micro Levels of Analysis• Breaking down to researchable issues
and questions
• Appropriate mobilization of concepts andmethodologies in given contexts to
contribute to knowledge building
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Research-Publication Spaces/Opportunities
• Illustration: WSSC 2013-14 Call for Papers
and research questions focusing on Consequences of climate change and
environmental change
Conditions and visions for change:Interpretation and subjective sense making
Responsibilities & Ethics
Governmentality and decision making Changing research practices and new ways
of working in the social sciences
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Illustrative Cases: Research-Publication
Spaces/Opportunities
• Interrogating Sustainability Indicators:Guidelines and Methodologies (2007)
Driving force-state-response frameworks
Issue- or theme-based frameworks
Capital frameworks Accounting frameworks
Aggregated indicators
Other indicator approaches
* Sustainability hinges on local practices
not on global goals!
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Illustrative Cases: Research-Publication
Spaces/Opportunities
• Interrogating Sustainability Indicators:Guidelines and Methodologies (2007)
• Documenting local patterns, articulations and
revising the understanding/hierarchy
of indicators, variable components or
relationships giving rise to new knowledge
* Sustainability hinges on local practices /interrogationsnot on global goals!
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Illustrative Cases: Research-Publication
Spaces/Opportunities
• Interrogating Sustainability Indicators:Guidelines and Methodologies (2007)
• Illustrative Concept(s): sustainability prism—
sustainability practices; ecological economics
and trans-disciplinarity
• Research/publication in the Northvis-à-vis
interrogations/theorizing in the South
(expanding the evidence base in social scienceknowledge productions)
* Sustainability hinges on local practices
/interrogations, not on global goals!
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Illustrative Cases: Research-Publication
Spaces/Opportunities
*Sustainability politics: politics of development * Sustainability hinges on local practices
not on global goals!
Example : production of income poverty, foodsecurity and extreme inequality vs. national elite
strategies and state (national-local) governance
strategies
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Methodologies for Sustainability Research
•Transdisciplinarity
•Sustainable development
•North-South; East-West
•Participatory Research; Reflexive
Methodologies
•Systems Analysis/Holistic but Very
Disciplined
•Three interlinked dimensions: direction,
diversity and distribution
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Day After Typhoon Milenyo: Children Looking at playgound in Navotas
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Bangkulasi, Navotas City: After Typhoon Milenyo
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Child crossing makeshift bridge to buy food across waterway inswam Iba o Ti as, Ta ui Cit , West Man ahan Flood Basin
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Concluding Comments:
Building/Producing Knowledge
•Sustainability theory as a theory of practices
•The sustainability prism— economy,
environment, equity (quality of life)
the appropriate balance of the three factors
articulates the practice of sustainability as well as
the writing and publishing about it
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Research-Publication Spaces &
Opportunities: Concluding Comments
Sustainability hinges on local practices
and interrogationsnot on institutional-global goals!
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Concluding Comments: Knowledge Building
(KP) and Our Scholarship
•Theory-averse environment (legacy of ML);
•Locating ourselves within the larger, globaluniverse of KP/scholarship;
•Developing the reflexivity in ourselves as
scholars of the global south (Interrogating theconcepts and theories produced in the North);
• A consciousness of building our intellectual
identities and location within the epistemiccommunities• Sustainability theory as a theory of practice(s)