TY - JOUR

T1 - Discursos economicistas de la sostenibilidad

T2 - Los momentos determinantes y la pregunta por alternativas

AU - Meyer, Esther

AU - Vilsmaier, Ulli

PY - 2020/4/30

Y1 - 2020/4/30

N2 - Despite the worldwide increase in discourses and politics around sustainability, the meanings of the concept vary significantly in different linguistic communities and cultures. This may undermine the multidimensionality and ethical dimension of the concept and jeopardize its political status. This article aims at highlighting discourse strands on sustainability from different linguistic communities in an intercultural orientation, and how they are theoretically shaped. It comprises a revision of existing and our own discourse analyses. The results show hegemonic discourses of economistic conceptualizations, as well as alternatives, which vary between communities and languages. We would like this article to contribute to an exchange and a profound discussion between the linguistic discourses, as well as to a methodological reflection on discourse analysis from an intercultural perspective. We conclude that critical transdisciplinary research, either as a science of sustainability or as transformative research, breaks with hegemonic orders, and thus, complements understandings of (un)sustainable ways of life.

AB - Despite the worldwide increase in discourses and politics around sustainability, the meanings of the concept vary significantly in different linguistic communities and cultures. This may undermine the multidimensionality and ethical dimension of the concept and jeopardize its political status. This article aims at highlighting discourse strands on sustainability from different linguistic communities in an intercultural orientation, and how they are theoretically shaped. It comprises a revision of existing and our own discourse analyses. The results show hegemonic discourses of economistic conceptualizations, as well as alternatives, which vary between communities and languages. We would like this article to contribute to an exchange and a profound discussion between the linguistic discourses, as well as to a methodological reflection on discourse analysis from an intercultural perspective. We conclude that critical transdisciplinary research, either as a science of sustainability or as transformative research, breaks with hegemonic orders, and thus, complements understandings of (un)sustainable ways of life.

KW - Sustainability Science

KW - sustainability sciences

KW - Transdisciplinarity

KW - discourse analysis

KW - hegemonic discourses

KW - Intercultural

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090527018&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.18472/SustDeb.v11n1.2020.26663

DO - 10.18472/SustDeb.v11n1.2020.26663

M3 - Zeitschriftenaufsätze

AN - SCOPUS:85090527018

VL - 11

SP - 98

EP - 110

JO - Sustentabilidade em Debate

JF - Sustentabilidade em Debate

SN - 2177-7675

IS - 1

ER -