Do Solutions to Current Ecological Challenges Lie in Decolonizing the Environment?

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The episode discusses the need for pluralistic and culturally diverse perspectives in addressing ecological challenges.

What are the limits of the utilitarian approach to studying the environment? How do we go beyond Western philosophies in our thinking around the environment? Can Western and Non-Western approaches work together? And why is it imperative that we expand our political imagination? In this episode of Sustainability Matters, Dr. Aleksandra Ross and Dr. Krzysztof Skonieczny talk about the importance of looking at ecological challenges from pluralistic, culturally diverse perspectives and disc...

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Guests: Dr. Aleksandra Ross, Dr. Krzysztof Skonieczny

Topics covered

• ecological challenges
• decolonization
• cultural perspectives
• utilitarianism
• political imagination

Keywords

• ecology
• decolonization
• Western philosophy
• non-Western approaches
• political imagination

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