TY - CHAP

T1 - Resonance an Subpolitics as Subject-related Approaches to the Critique of Sustainability

AU - Hantke, Harald

N1 - © 2024 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature

PY - 2024/4/5

Y1 - 2024/4/5

N2 - Sustainability can be understood as a critique of the prevailing, alienated relations between self and world. Human impacts on the earth’s natural processes have had dramatic effects on the ecological equilibrium, leading—in light of human dependency on nature—to intra- and inter-generational social turmoil. Non-sustainable thought and action thus create problems in the culture/nature relationship. This perspective on sustainability places the subject at the centre of attention. Ultimately, the subject—as a cultural being and part of nature is (latently) confronted with the contradiction of the destruction of that very natural world and forced to respond to it. If one applies these insights to processes of vocational ecucation, learners (and others) find themselves confronted with a contradiction between accelerating efficiency and growth on the one side and sustainability on the other. In light of the above observations, this theoretical/conceptual contribution examines the following research question: To what extent can the concepts of “resonance” and “sub-politics” help us to analyse the contradiction between social acceleration and sustainability at the level of the subject (in vocational education)?

AB - Sustainability can be understood as a critique of the prevailing, alienated relations between self and world. Human impacts on the earth’s natural processes have had dramatic effects on the ecological equilibrium, leading—in light of human dependency on nature—to intra- and inter-generational social turmoil. Non-sustainable thought and action thus create problems in the culture/nature relationship. This perspective on sustainability places the subject at the centre of attention. Ultimately, the subject—as a cultural being and part of nature is (latently) confronted with the contradiction of the destruction of that very natural world and forced to respond to it. If one applies these insights to processes of vocational ecucation, learners (and others) find themselves confronted with a contradiction between accelerating efficiency and growth on the one side and sustainability on the other. In light of the above observations, this theoretical/conceptual contribution examines the following research question: To what extent can the concepts of “resonance” and “sub-politics” help us to analyse the contradiction between social acceleration and sustainability at the level of the subject (in vocational education)?

KW - Lifelong Learning

KW - sub-politcs

KW - resonance

KW - alienation

KW - acceleration

KW - growth

KW - sustainability

KW - vocation education

KW - critique

KW - transformation

UR - https://d-nb.info/1295954893

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-658-42525-8_11

DO - 10.1007/978-3-658-42525-8_11

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9783658425241

T3 - Sozioökonomische Bildung und Wissenschaft

SP - 237

EP - 258

BT - Economy, Society and Politics

A2 - Fridrich, Christian

A2 - Hagedorn, Udo

A2 - Hedtke, Reinhold

A2 - Mittnik, Philipp

A2 - Tafner, Georg

PB - Springer

CY - Wiesbaden

ER -