Discourses of Moral and Ecological Crisis in the Czech Post-Socialist Transformation

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003438298-18" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003438298-18</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Discourses of Moral and Ecological Crisis in the Czech Post-Socialist Transformation

Original language description

This chapter analyses the discourses of moral and ecological crisis in the first years of Czech postsocialist transformation and their relation to the late socialist period. The chapter investigates how liberal ecologists came to understand what they diagnosed as ecological crisis as a moral crisis and a failure of state socialism. It explores how Josef Vavroušek and Bedřich Moldan, former state-socialist experts who became environment ministers after 1989, came to see state socialism as anti-ecological, aligned themselves to varying degrees with market liberalism and put their hopes into legal mechanisms and environmental ethics that would regulate the markets. It also suggests that the two ministers’ discourse of ecological-cum-moral crisis as at once a specific historical experience and a part of global crisis was another way to signal a ‘return’ to Europe and participate in global politics. The first part of the chapter discusses how Vavroušek used the language of cybernetics to describe ecological crisis as a failure of state socialism and propose a new global environmental programme, while emphasising the values of humanism and sustainability as a corrective to the market economy. The second part examines the way Moldan used the figure of the tragedy of commons, presenting ecological crisis as a case against state socialism and for the market, and his belief in Christian values as neoliberalism’s moral compass.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century. A Never-Ending Story?

ISBN

9781032572055

Number of pages of the result

24

Pages from-to

368-391

Number of pages of the book

427

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

New York

UT code for WoS chapter

001383519500016