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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

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

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

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

ISBN

9781032572055

Počet stran výsledku

24

Strana od-do

368-391

Počet stran knihy

427

Název nakladatele

Routledge

Místo vydání

New York

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

001383519500016