Multiple Civil Spheres Shaping Environmental Solidarities

Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: FSE032 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC16 Sociological Theory (host committee)
RC24 Environment and Society

Language: English, French and Spanish

1/ How to question the multiple dimensions of civil spheres supporting the consistency and shaping of social solidarities (Durkheim, Walzer, Alexander)? How to explain the formation of cooperation around public values and environmental values ? How multiple cooperations around public values (industrial solidarism, rural cooperation, circular consumption) are composing sustainable trajectories? The diversification and composition of multiple solidarities require new characterization and new typologies of explanation.

2/ The differentiation of the public spheres supports new styles of action combining learning and belonging, symbolic actions and pragmatic of performance. How ecological cooperation is enhanced by internet exchanges and public values ? How ecological cooperation requires public supports and public legitimation? You may specify the different conditions for multiple ecological solidarity.

3/ Which forms of justice can be developed on these multiple cooperations and solidarities ? Are they compatible with sustainable development. They suppose new relations between public values and environmental values. Adaptative justice, development justice, connectionist justice can be examined in this review process ( from Schlosberg to Fraser ). How institutions and regional federation may organize some forms of inclusive justice and connective forms of justice.

Session Organizer:
Gilles VERPRAET, University Paris Ouest Nanterre, France
Oral Presentations
Climate Boundaries: Linking Emotional Dimensions of the Relational Foundations of Solidarity to Civil Sphere Theory
Till HILMAR, University of Vienna, Austria; Sylvia HERZOG, Austria; Anna DURNOVA, Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria
Social Appropriation and Diagonal Solidarities Facing Vulnerable Futures
Gilles VERPRAET, University Paris Ouest Nanterre, France; Shin-Ock CHANG, Independent Researcher, Republic of Korea