Ecological Footprint and Governing the Anthropocene through Balancing Individualism and Collectivism

Authors

  • Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills Flinders University

Keywords:

consumption, accountability participation, governance, stewardship

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The current way of life is unsustainable (Papadimitriou, 2014) and in a bid to maintain the status quo – profit is extracted from people and the environment.

The challenge of scaling up efforts to engage people in an alternative forms of democracy and governance is that currently the response to social, economic and environmental  challenges is that internationally politics is being shaped by so-called realist politics (Beardsworth, 2011) based on a) competition for resources, b) the notion that profit and loss, win and lose is contained /carried by ‘the other’ and c)  Huntington’s ‘clash of cultures’ thesis rather than an understanding of our interlinked, co-created and co-determined fate.

Author Biography

Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, Flinders University

Assoc Prof Flinders University

Adjunct Professor National Islamic University

Adjunct Professor University of Indonesia

Hon Professor University of South Africa

Published

2016-01-20

How to Cite

McIntyre-Mills, J. J. (2016). Ecological Footprint and Governing the Anthropocene through Balancing Individualism and Collectivism. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2015 Berlin, Germany, 1(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings59th/article/view/2444