主题：“Obstacles to sustainable development in a global context”
主讲人：May Thorseth教授（挪威科技大学哲学和宗教系）
时间：4月23日下午3:00
地点：闵行校区人文学院楼2102哲学系会议室
Abstract：The aim of the presentation is to identify some obstacles to sustainable development. One basic idea is that sustainability is threatened by poor coordination of action and institutional governance. A further claim is that a certain sustainability discourse, notably the Promethean, is itself a threat to sustainable development. Two major problems are identified: 1) the problem of ‘difference-blindness’ in glossing over relevant differences between affluent and poor countries, and 2) a strong belief in one overarching model for overcoming the problem of limits by technological fixes. This further impliesa tension within the democratic equality norm, and the politics following from it. A claim is put for that sustainability politics seem to require a shift in sustainability discourses in order to address the differences between notably poor and affluent countries more adequately.
