| Title |
The limits of the loops: critical environmental politics and the Circular Economy |
| ID_Doc |
1348 |
| Authors |
Hobson, K |
| Title |
The limits of the loops: critical environmental politics and the Circular Economy |
| Year |
2021 |
| Published |
Environmental Politics, 30, 1-2 |
| DOI |
10.1080/09644016.2020.1816052 |
| Abstract |
Circular Economy (CE) is now a key governance framework that aims to reconfigure how value is extracted from resources. Despite its widespread uptake, CE commentary to date tends towards descriptive and/or celebratory. In response, in this paper I outline some ways that environmental politics researchers have much to contribute to CE research, arguing that current examples of CE policies and practices potentially accelerate resource use into this century. A key weakness is how proponents frame us all as particular forms of 'user-consumers'. Such framings fail to account for what is at stake for all of us as part of the CE project: and I conclude this paper by posing several key research questions, to encourage more critical environmental politics research on and around issues of CE. |
| Author Keywords |
Circular Economy; consumption; consumer-user |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000569013200001 |
| WoS Category |
Environmental Studies; Political Science |
| Research Area |
Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Government & Law |
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