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Modern nature for a modern nation : an intellectual history of environmental dissonances in the Swedish welfare state
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- Mårald, Erland, 1970- (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier,Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier
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- Nordlund, Christer, 1970- (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Umeå universitet,Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier,Kollegiet för avancerade studier (SCAS),Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier
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- Isle of Harris : White Horse Press, 2020
- 2020
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Environment and History. - Isle of Harris : White Horse Press. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; 26:4, s. 495-520
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Abstract
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- In the mid-1990s, the concept 'ecological modernisation' was established to characterise the perception that environmental protection and economic growth are not mutually exclusive but rather comprise a solid foundation for sustainable development. We argue in this essay that believing that modernisation, economic growth and a healthy environment could go hand-in-hand was nothing new as far as Sweden was concerned. Rather, it is a belief that developed during the 'folkhem era (1930s–1970s) due to an extensive dialogue about the proper relationship between nature and society in the construction of the welfare state. We highlight the idea of 'dissonances' as a salient metaphor describing the disharmonic relation between old and new and modern society and modern nature. According to advocates of modernisation, it was important to overcome dissonances – backwardness, inefficient use of natural resources and negative ‘side effects’ of societal progress such as pollution and environmental damage – between society and nature. Instead, by rational thinking and new technology it would be possible to make society and nature go hand-in-hand and thereby enhance human welfare. However, broadened knowledge and intellectual horizons and critiques of progress have brought new problem complexes and dissonances to light. Like the dream of Sweden the modern Model Nation, the definitive answer to the difficulties of the environmental issue has constantly been deferred.
Ämnesord
- HUMANIORA -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Idé- och lärdomshistoria (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- History of Ideas (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Ecological modernisation
- welfare state
- dissonances
- environmental thinking
- idé- och lärdomshistoria
- History Of Sciences and Ideas
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- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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