European Journal of Social Theory, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: April 2, 2025
Late-modern societies are experiencing a transformation that is very different from the one environmental movements and many scientists have long been campaigning for. While ecological issues slipping down political priority list, autocratic-authoritarian turn collapse of liberal world order gaining momentum. Ecopolitically, this may be interpreted as exhaustion eco-emancipatory project (EEP). From perspective social theory, it understood present phase modernity. This article argues these two aspects closely related to each other. Drawing on Ulrich Beck's theory reflexive modernization his distinction between first , industrial, second reflexive, modernity, conceptualizes dual transition third postliberal The logic EEP itself, suggests, driver transformation: In wake triple dialectic—of sustainability, emancipation, democracy—it has rendered outdated, given rise condition ungovernability helped pave way for new modernity beyond values once underpinned Western at large.
Language: Английский