This paper applies a feminist political ecology approach to ask: How do sustainability in higher education (SHE) conference events co-produce the subjectivities and expertise of campus sustainability professionals (CSPs) emotionally? Specifically, how do SHE conference spaces cultivate particular embodied practices and discourses in CSPs who are meant to translate at times irreconcilable practices and discourses in their daily campus-based work? Through multi-event ethnography and autoethnography of SHE events and comparisons with academic conferences more broadly in my role as a teacher-scholar-activist, I analyze how CSPs encounter and challenge ‘green’ knowledge claims emotionally. Vignettes from a sample of conference spaces demonstrate that SHE events provoke a confusion of conflicting emotions, all while promoting products, services and solutions to ‘fix’ the distressing emotions they provoke. Furthermore, the emergence of informal and formal wellness discourses and performances at SHE conferences re-directs CSPs away from critical questions of power toward self-centered, technocratic and technophilic solutions. A politics of failure can challenge audit culture, the bullshitization of sustainability work and neoliberal tropes of professionalism and self-improvement. Such a politics compliments ongoing efforts to center justice-oriented work in sustainability.

本文运用女性主义的政治生态学方法提出以下问题：高等教育可持续发展（SHE）会议活动如何在情感上共同产生校园可持续发展专业人士（CSP）的主观性和专业知识？特别是，SHE会议空间如何在CSP中培养特定的体现实践和话语，以便在日常的校园工作中有时翻译不可调和的实践和话语？通过对SHE事件进行多事件民族志和自传民族志研究，并与作为学者学者活动家的学术会议进行更广泛的比较，我分析了CSP如何在情感上遇到和挑战“绿色”知识主张。从会议空间样本中获得的小插图表明，在推广产品的同时，SHE事件激起了人们相互矛盾的情绪，服务和解决方案，以“解决”他们引起的痛苦情绪。此外，在SHE会议上出现的非正式和正式的健康话题和表演将CSP的方向从权力的关键问题转向了以自我为中心，技术官僚和嗜好技术的解决方案。失败的政治可能会挑战审计文化，对可持续发展工作的胡言乱语以及专业和自我完善的新自由主义倾向。这样的政治与正在进行的努力相辅相成，以可持续发展为中心，着眼于司法工作。失败的政治可能会挑战审计文化，对可持续发展工作的胡言乱语以及专业和自我完善的新自由主义倾向。这样的政治与正在进行的努力相辅相成，以可持续发展为中心，着眼于司法工作。失败的政治可能会挑战审计文化，对可持续发展工作的胡言乱语以及专业和自我完善的新自由主义倾向。这样的政治与正在进行的努力相辅相成，以可持续发展为中心，着眼于司法工作。