Imagining beyond Nature-Culture Dualism: An Exploration of Ecological Justice

Claire-Isabelle Roquebert () and Gervaise Debucquet
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Claire-Isabelle Roquebert: UNIL - Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne

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Abstract: In the face of rising sustainability issues, increasing numbers of organisations are trying to build compromises between their economic purpose and ecological objectives. Organisational studies focus on the analysis of such compromise processes but most studies do not seek to grasp the substantial changes advocated by ecological critiques. Our research is aimed at addressing that gap by clarifying the radical view sustained by ecological imaginary beyond conventional compromise processes. We engage in a qualitative study of biodynamics – an agricultural method based on a radical ecological imaginary – to evaluate its moral underpinnings through Boltanski and Thévenot's Economies of Worth framework. Our findings help us to grasp the radical moral substance of ecological critique and to extend that framework beyond its dualist assumption. By highlighting antagonisms between meta-conceptions of justice rather than analysing compromises, our research provides insights into the radical organisational changes advocated by ecological critiques.

Keywords: Biodynamic farming; Ecological critique; Economies of Worth; Imaginaries; Nature-culture dualism; Sustainability; Antagonisms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-02
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Published in Organization, 2024, 31 (2), pp.135050842210982. ⟨10.1177/13505084221098249⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/13505084221098249

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