Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion: Visions, Realities & Praxes for an Enduring & Just Soc…

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Immersing ourselves in New York’s rich urban ecology with on-site visits, we address the social movements of "sustainability" and "inclusion" with a focus on their respective claims regarding "(bio)diversity" as essential to a healthy planet and a modern equitable society. We explore these claims in the context of our contemporary geopolitics and political economy where difference is, to the contrary, often characterized by inequality. At this impasse of social vision and social reality, we examine the complex relationship between the appropriation and destruction of the material world; the changing ideas and increasing stratification in the social world; and, the contemporary systems of production that appropriate life and consciousness in the global information economy of late high modernity.