Two rival attention regimes define managerial and radical ecology

Evidence

For MANAGERIAL ECOLOGY, environmental concerns amount to economizing our resources so as to sustainably reproduce the ways of life that we have enjoyed since the take-off of industrial development. The green economy, sustainable development, carbon tax, compensation, incentives and markets for trading in the right to pollute are foremost in the arsenal put forward for ‘saving the planet’, which is generally seen from above (or observed from Saturn), in terms of statistics, flows, programmes, plans and regulations. For RADICAL (OR DEEP) ECOLOGY, on the other hand, it is only starting from concrete collective alternatives that other forms of life will emerge – out of the political activism of grassroots organizations (organized from the bottom up) – such that we may revaluate the relationships that connect us to one another and to our environment, which implies fighting against our current addiction to the fetishes of consumer growth. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 309

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the managerial vs. radical/deep ecology distinction that organizes the chapter’s argument.
• XREF: connects to: Radical attention is rooted in proximate 1-to-1 scale practices — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 314; Attention functions as a political economy embedded in specific temporal contexts — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 25; Scaled-down abstract plans structure managerial attention from above — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 313 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Radical attention is rooted in proximate 1-to-1 scale practices #expands (0.82) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 314
• Attention functions as a political economy embedded in specific temporal contexts #expands (0.80) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 25