Resumen de On sustainability and materiality. Homo faber, a new approach
This paper explicitly engages with recent debates in Ecological Economics on what mode of humanity and person the sustainability project requires (e.g. Becker, 2006; Siebenhüner, 2000) and responds to calls to widen our understanding of the human being beyond homo economicus (e.g. Bina and Guedes Vaz, 2011). Using the example of the increasing attention to well-being, both within policy and academic circles, we seek to contribute to current critical considerations of �the sustainable person� (Becker, 2010, 2012). We do this by incorporating often neglected perspectives from disciplines rooted in the Arts and Humanities � specifically anthropology and philosophy � introducing to debates on sustainability the notion of �homo faber�. Our aim is threefold: (1) to invite creative thinking about the role that materiality and practice play in the constitution of alternative notions of �being�; (2) to soften the anthropocentrism of western worldviews by considering the possibility of a different mode of humanity based upon �connection rather than separation, interdependence rather than autonomy� (Gibson-Graham, 2011:2), and (3) to encourage deeper reflection about the need for, and the challenge of interdisciplinary sustainability research.
