POLITICAL SPACE OF ECOLOGICAL CITIZENSHIP

This paper examines the concept of ecological citizenship by looking at two sets of arguments. Those justifying the concept itself, and those criticizing the need to devise a new concept of citizenship and political community in relation to ecological problems. The paper argues for a shift in focus: instead of searching for (or readily dismissing) a new concept of citizenship, we should adopt a different perspective capable of capturing the explanatory potentials of citizenship-related notions especially citizenship action and political space in which it is constituted - in the context of contemporary global ecological problems.