Towards a relational paradigm in sustainability research, practice, and education

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Authors

  • Zack Walsh
  • Jessica Böhme
  • Christine Wamsler

Relational thinking has recently gained increasing prominence across academic disciplines in an attempt to understand complex phenomena in terms of constitutive processes and relations. Interdisciplinary fields of study, such as science and technology studies (STS), the environmental humanities, and the posthumanities, for example, have started to reformulate academic understanding of nature-cultures based on relational thinking. Although the sustainability crisis serves as a contemporary backdrop and in fact calls for such innovative forms of interdisciplinary scholarship, the field of sustainability research has not yet tapped into the rich possibilities offered by relational thinking. Against this background, the purpose of this paper is to identify relational approaches to ontology, epistemology, and ethics which are relevant to sustainability research. More specifically, we analyze how relational approaches have been understood and conceptualized across a broad range of disciplines and contexts relevant to sustainability to identify and harness connections and contributions for future sustainability-related work. Our results highlight common themes and patterns across relational approaches, helping to identify and characterize a relational paradigm within sustainability research. On this basis, we conclude with a call to action for sustainability researchers to co-develop a research agenda for advancing this relational paradigm within sustainability research, practice, and education.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftAmbio
Jahrgang50
Ausgabenummer1
Seiten (von - bis)74-84
Anzahl der Seiten11
ISSN0044-7447
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.2021

Bibliographische Notiz

Open access funding provided by Lund University. Thanks to Thomas Bruhn and Brooke Lavelle for providing feedback on drafts. In addition, we thank the three anonymous reviewers whose critical feedback helped improve and clarify this manuscript.

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