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Sustainability is a complex term, which is often used interchangeably with sustainable development. We observed that sustainability is on the agenda of universities and local governments in Turkey, and frequently included in scientic projects as a keyword. Despite the growing popularity of the concept of sustainability in Turkish academia, there is no detailed examination on how it is understood by academics and how this reects on their scientic outputs. Since the notion of sustainability is instrumentalised by discourses such as development, progress and modernism, on which capitalism nourishes, it also requires thinking about how closely it intertwined with capitalism. The reection of the positivist paradigm on the academic discourses, which is the basis of contemporary techno-scientic-economic discourse, requires critical scrutiny on sustainability as a concept and a practice. For Turkey, this kind of critical inquiry is lacking in the literature. Therefore, we examined the perceptions of the academicians towards the concept of sustainability and how they relate to the practical and theoretical contradictions that this concept has through critical discourse analysis. Thus, we focused on how the sustainable development discourse circulates in academia and reconstructed in local circles. We believe that academics who claim to work on 'sustainability' need to critically engage the questions of what we produce, what we empower, and in what direction we are moving in a critical manner. In this context, we questioned whether the sustainability discourses cause the reproduction of development ideology through works of academics who believe that they work for a better future.

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