Attracting investment in green cultural capital through aesthetic differentiation

Abstract Certain voices in environmentalism stress a harmonious aesthetic connection with nature, and believe that doing this may have a beneficial effect on moral environmentalism. However, there is also a fair sprinkling of opposing voices that think difference and striving over of sameness and harmony. In alliance with them, and because I am poststructurally inspired, I have taken upon myself the task of thinking aesthetic differentiation and its implications for environmentalism. My hypothesis is that the performative act of constructing and discerning surface differences effectively creates meaning, and that we should not underestimate the degree to which the desire for meaning in general and aesthetic meaning in particular, impacts, for better or for worse, on the natural environment. Optimistically, I champion investment in green cultural capital through aesthetic differentiation.

• Publication year

  2019

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  Cogent Arts & Humanities

• Publication date

  2019-01-01

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Philosophy, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1080/23311983.2019.1677127
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