Shifting sights: The cultural challenge of sustainability

Abstract

This article focuses on the need for universities, as teaching and research organisations, to recognise and act upon a more culturally inclusive interpretation of “sustainable development” and “sustainability”. It argues for the valuing of indigenous worldviews as a means of achieving a more holistic and interdisciplinary way of thinking about the Earth as the home of all people and as a complement to the beliefs of Western science and rational objective thinking. At a more personal level, it challenges readers, especially academics, to re‐examine their own ways of thinking and knowing for the sake of creating sustainable futures that are inclusive in its processes, contexts and outcomes.

Citation

Thaman, K.H. (2002), "Shifting sights: The cultural challenge of sustainability", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 233-242. https://doi.org/10.1108/14676370210434697