The corporate capture of sustainable development and its transformation into a ‘good Anthropocene’ historical bloc

Sklair, Leslie

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dc.creator	Sklair, Leslie
dc.date	2019
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-28T19:08:52Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-28T19:08:52Z
dc.identifier	1519-6089
dc.identifier	https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=74260479002
dc.identifier.uri	https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/241982
dc.description	"Inspired by Antonio Gramsci's analysis of bourgeois hegemony and his theoretical formulation of historical blocs, this paper attempts to explain how the concept and practice of sustainable development were captured by corporate interests in the last few decades of the twentieth century and how they were transformed into what we can name a ‘good Anthropocene’ historical bloc at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This corporate capture is theorised in terms of the transnational capitalist class as represented by corporate, statist/political, professional and consumerist fractions operating at all levels of an increasingly globalising world. In this essay, I propose the term ‘critical Anthropocene narrative’, highlighting the dangers posed by the Anthropocene and the need for radical systems’ change entailing the end of capitalism and the hierarchical state. The critical Anthropocene narrative, thus, stands in radical opposition to the ‘good Anthropocene’ narrative which I argue was invented as a strategy to defend the socio-economic status quo by the proponents of sustainable development and their successors in the Anthropocene era, despite the good intentions of many environmentalists working in corporations, governments, NGOs, and international organizations. The paper concludes with some suggestions on how to deal with the potential existential threats to the survival of humanity."
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=742
dc.rights	Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais
dc.source	Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Brasil) Num.2 Vol.19
dc.subject	Sociología
dc.subject	The Anthropocene
dc.subject	Historical blocs
dc.subject	Corporate capture
dc.subject	Sustainable development
dc.subject	Transnational capitalist class
dc.title	The corporate capture of sustainable development and its transformation into a ‘good Anthropocene’ historical bloc
dc.type	artículo científico