TY - JOUR AU - Swyngedouw, Erik PY - 2009/09/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Immer Ärger mit der Natur: "Ökologie als neues Opium für's Volk" JF - PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft JA - PROKLA VL - 39 IS - 156 SE - Artikel des Heftschwerpunkts DO - 10.32387/prokla.v39i156.420 UR - https://prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/420 SP - 371-389 AB - <p>In The notion of "nature" constitutes an empty signifier, which is colonized and filled with meaning by scientists, experts and policy-makers, and through a variety of techno-administrative procedures. This is a gesture par excellence of de-politicization, of placing "nature" outside the field of public dispute, contestation, and disagreement. In order to find a democratic and socially inclusive response to the current "environmental crisis", we need to abandon the concept of "nature". Instead, we need to re-conceputalize "nature" as a socio-environmental process, and reclaim democratic public spaces, which allow us to discuss the conditions for more egalitarian socio-ecological arrangements.</p> ER -