Are You Scared Yet? On the Ethic of Sustainability and the Politics of Fear in Public Administration
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-13-2016
Publication Title
Public Integrity
Abstract
This article offers a critical examination of the ethic of sustainability. It argues that, notwithstanding the importance of environmental problems, such an ethic has the effect of promoting a politics of fear by emphasizing our fears about human survival and security. As such, despite its attractions, an ethic of sustainability for public administration reinforces already deeply embedded antipolitical ways of thinking within the field that ignore its constitutional practices and traditions, and are potentially harmful to public administration practice.
Repository Citation
Spicer, Michael W. and Bowen, William M., "Are You Scared Yet? On the Ethic of Sustainability and the Politics of Fear in Public Administration" (2016). All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications. 0 1 2 3 1498.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_facpub/1498
DOI
10.1080/10999922.2016.1233379
Volume
19
Issue
4
