ABSTRACT
By critically building upon the mentioned contributions, political scientist Ingolfur Blühdorn (2000) proposed a theoretical advancement from post-environmentalism to post-ecologism, in order to overcome the conventionally accepted definition, knowledge-production processes, and political practices of environmentalism itself. He claims that the full acceptance of strictly environmental values is incompatible with the practices of modern capitalist consumer democracies and this determines a no-way-out situation for mainstream environmental politics (Blühdorn 2011). In order to disclose the paradox determined by the coexistence of the hyper-ecologism of declaratory commitments toward sustainability goals and the immutable faith of infinite growth, he adopts a constructivist approach. The critical analysis of the social construction of environmental issues in the theory of ecological modernization reveals it to be a mere peacekeeping strategy and calls for a new sociology for the postecologist era.
