PARADOXES, APORIES ET CONTRADICTIONS AU COEUR DU PARADIGME DU DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE ETUDE D'UN CHAMP INSTITUTIONNEL DE LA REGION METROPOLITAINE DE RECIFE ET DE LA ZONE DE LA FORET ATLANTIQUE DU PERNAMBOUC, BRESIL

摘要

This research aims at confronting the theoretical aspects of the sustainable development paradigm with the practical forms it can take, through the study of a regional institutional field (constituted by NGOs, companies/businesses, public and private organizations) situated in the Zone of the Atlantic Forest (Nordeste of Brazil). On a larger scope, we hope to find at the core of this paradigm paradoxes and aporias, which tell us about the contradictions of our contemporary societies, in particular on their structural incapability to limit themselves. From here on this research leads up to a questioning concerning the relation between the paradigm of sustainable development and the counter-productivity of our societies (the paradoxical societal dynamic which is set once some critical thresholds are exceeded). To do so, we will have to resort to a double approach: sociological and anthropological, in order to situate the paradoxes and contradictions of the paradigm in a historical and transversal perspective.