Reflexive modernisation through Gandhi's satyagrahic accountability: a search for sustainable practices in the South Australian citrus industry

Accountability in post-industrial society is increasingly associated with the risk that civilisation is destroying the very resources it depends on. Here, discursive accountability (re)introduces the individual into the process of socialising technical risk. It draws on the psychology of reflexivityfear, Beck's risk society, Power's intelligent risk management and Gandhi's satyagrahic reform to create a risk-based decision context that counters industrialisation's control rationale. Its contextual frame minimises spatio-temporal fragmentation and encourages networked communities to experiment with the meaning and implications of sustainability.