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590 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2003)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0590 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE The Power of Unsustainable Development: What Is to Be Done? By JUDE L. FERNANDO 6 Regardless of the state of theory and practice in sustain- able development, there is no doubt that an ethical/ moral imperative exists to address socioeconomic inequality and degradation of the environment. To real- ize the goals of sustainable development, it must be lib- erated from its embeddedness in the ideology and insti- tutional parameters of capitalism. This calls for a departure from the current reformist character of devel- opment theory and the practice and articulation of an alternative vision of political economy, as well as a politi- cally strong commitment to realizing it. This endeavor should be global in scope: not in an attempt to create a homogeneous world order but rather to prevent social diversity from being reconfigured and disciplined according to the imperatives of capital. The state must play a pivotal role if social transformative efforts are to bear fruit and break through the impasse capitalism has imposed on realizing the goals of sustainable development. Keywords: sustainable development; postdevelop- mentalism; nongovernmental organiza- tions; social justice Sustainable, ecologically sound capitalist devel- opment is a contradiction in terms. -David Pepper (quoted in Adams 1990, 139) Capitalism triumphs when it becomes identi- fied with the state, when it is the state. -Fernando Braudel Jude L. Fern an do teaches political economy and sustain- able development at the Department of Geography and Regional Developm ent and the International College of the University o fArizona. His research focus is economic development and political economy, with a special emphasis on nonprofit organizations, environment, race, gendei and child labor, particularly in South Asia. He is curently completing a book titled Political Econ- omy of NGOs: Modernizing Post-Modernity (Pluto Press). He is also working on an edited volume on micro- credit with Katherine Rankin to be published by Routledge. NOTE: This article is a result of a conference sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- tion at the Office of Sustainable Development and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce. DOI: 10.1177/0002716203258283 ANNALS. AAPSS. 590. November 2003

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