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Reviewing strategies in/for ESD policy engagement: Agency reclaimed

机译:审查ESD政策参与中/的策略:代理商已收回

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In this response article, I draw on critical realist perspectives to engage with the argument put forward in Bengtsson's study, which sees agency as an ontological necessity for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) policy engagement. Bengtsson supports a notion of the logic of contingent action over the logic of power as dominance, suggesting possibilities for agency and resistance. Although I do not in principle disagree with the agentive possibilities embedded in this aspect of the Bengtsson argument, it is the scope of the conceptualization thereof that I consider in this response. I start with considering the limitations of a Westphalian analysis of policy appropriations and agency for ESD, and argue that the Westphalian frame for policy analysis may be inadequate for capturing the significance of non-state actors and wider generative mechanisms such as informal normative structures, and private, economic power in the global political economy. Drawing on Fraser's (2008) concept of the transnational public sphere, I explore other potential possibilities for agency-centered appropriations or negations of, and/or resistance to ESD policy discourses, potentially expanding the agency-centered perspective referred to in Bengtsson's analysis and critique of policy making for ESD, or, at the very least, by offering a wider view of possibility for what he refers to as the 'ineradicable moment of conflict, or antagonism.' In particular, I broaden the notion of the transnational public sphere to be inclusive of Dussel's (1998) three concerns of transformation, namely; poverty and wealth inequality, environmental degradation, and narrow rationalities involving ongoing colonization of people, territories and resources. In doing this, I concur with Fraser, who suggests that the concept of the public sphere may well be "so thoroughly Westphalian in its deep conceptual structure as to be unsalvageable as a critical tool for theorizing the present" and suggest that public sphere thinking and associated conceptions of agency require expansion, which I offer from postcolonial and decolonization literature, critical realism, ontological experiences, and reflection on Environmental Education (EE) /ESD policy in the southern African region. Ultimately, I propose need for a more radical framework for EE/ ESD policy research that reaches beyond analyses of appropriations of policy within the Wesphalian state framework, and that moves beyond critiquing or seeking out resistance moments associated with the assumptions of trickle down effects from UN level policy, or analysis that is centered on the EE versus ESD debate. Such a framework requires a revitalized notion of agency involving commitment to collective, relational (including the socio-materially relational) and transgressive forms of agency for deep societal transformations all round. Overall, it seems that environmental education policy and praxis research conceptualized within a decolonizing transnational sphere frame appears to still be an open and as yet under-explored terrain.
机译:在这篇回应文章中,我借鉴了批判现实主义的观点,以与Bengtsson研究中提出的论点相提并论,该论点将代理商视为可持续发展教育(ESD)政策参与的本体论必要性。 Bengtsson支持偶然行动的逻辑,而不是权力作为主导的逻辑,这暗示了代理和抵抗的可能性。尽管我原则上不反对Bengtsson论点这一方面所包含的代理可能性,但我在此回应中所考虑的只是其概念化的范围。首先,我考虑了威斯特伐利亚州对ESD的政策拨款和代理机构进行分析的局限性,并指出,威斯特伐利亚州的政策分析框架可能不足以抓住非国家行为者和更广泛的生成机制(如非正式规范结构)的重要性,以及全球政治经济中的私有经济力量。借鉴弗雷泽(Fraser,2008)的跨国公共领域概念,我探索了以代理为中心的挪用,否定和/或抵制可持续发展教育政策话语的其他潜在可能性,潜在地扩展了本特森在分析和批评中提到的以代理为中心的观点。关于ESD的政策制定,或者至少通过为他所说的“无法消除的冲突或对抗时刻”提供更广泛的可能性。特别是,我将跨国公共领域的概念扩展到包括杜塞尔(Dussel,1998)对转型的三个关注。贫困和财富不平等,环境退化以及人类,领土和资源持续殖民的狭义理性。在此过程中,我同意弗雷泽的看法,弗雷泽认为公共领域的概念很可能“在其深层的概念结构中非常彻底地成为威斯特伐利亚风格,以至于无法作为理论化当前的重要工具”,并建议公共领域的思考和相关的机构概念需要扩展,我从后殖民和非殖民化文献,批判现实主义,本体论经验以及对南部非洲地区的环境教育(EE)/ ESD政策的反思中提供了扩展。最终,我提出需要一个更激进的EE / ESD政策研究框架,该框架应超出在威斯法伦州框架内对政策拨款的分析,而不仅仅是对联合国UN下效应假设的批评或寻找阻力时刻。以EE与ESD之争为中心的政策或分析。这样的框架要求振兴的代理机构概念涉及对集体,关系(包括社会-物质上的关系)和侵害形式的代理机构的承诺,以实现全方位的深刻社会变革。总体而言,在非殖民化的跨国领域框架内概念化的环境教育政策和实践研究似乎仍然是一个开放且尚未充分研究的领域。

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