Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change
Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change
Matthew Paterson, University of Ottawa
Johannes Stripple, Lunds Universitet, Sweden
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USDTowards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change provides a new perspective on how climate change matters in policy-making, business and everyday life. It argues that the work of low carbon transitions takes place through the creation of devices, the mobilisation of desires, and the articulation of dissent. Using case studies from the US, Australia, and Europe, the book examines the creation and contestation of new forms of cultural politics - of how a climate-changed society is articulated, realized and contested. Through this approach it opens up questions about how, where and by whom climate politics is conducted and the ways in which we might respond differently to this societal challenge. This book provides a key reference point for the emerging academic community working on the cultural politics of climate change, and a means through which to engage this new area of research with the broader social sciences.
- Develops a new framework for analyzing the cultural politics of climate change, providing readers with a new perspective that bridges accounts of cultural responses to climate change and those which focus on its politics
- Includes a range of international case studies which demonstrate the ways in which responses to climate change are being realized in everyday life, giving readers concrete examples from familiar areas of social and political life through which to interpret the new perspective
- Provides a new approach to thinking about how climate change comes to matter in everyday life, for those seeking to look beyond 'individualist' approaches to understanding how society is responding to climate change
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'Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change contains a collection of essays on the broad cultural dimensions of the climate discussion that engage with the question of resistance. They do so by emphasizing how deeply embedded energy consumption is in the cultures of modern states. There is considerable engagement with contemporary political and cultural theories in these pages. The dense conceptualizations in this text reflect the richly detailed analysis contained in the case studies.' Simon Dalby, Academic Council on the United Nations System
Product details
September 2016Hardback
9781107166271
246 pages
225 × 225 × 6 mm
0.6kg
8 b/w illus. 3 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction Harriet Bulkeley, Matthew Paterson and Johannes Stripple
- 2. CHANGE: The European Commission's climate campaign as a technique of government Ylva Uggla and Fredrika Uggla
- 3. Devising low-carbon desires in the Australian urban economy Robyn Dowling, Pauline McGuirk, Harriet Bulkeley and Clare Brennan
- 4. Low-carbon devices and desires in community housing retrofit Andrew Karvonen
- 5. Caring for the low-carbon self: the government of self and others in the world as a gas greenhouse Timothy Luke
- 6. Grief, loss and the cultural politics of climate change Lesley Head
- 7. Culture, technology, and transport: navigating a path to low-carbon urban mobilities in the United States Hugh Bartling
- 8. 'The everyday choices we make matter': urban climate politics and the postpolitics of responsibility and action Jennifer L. Rice
- 9. Strategic engagements with resistance against energy efficient devices: exploring the hidden politics of comfort desires in housing Maj-Britt Quitzau and Birgitte Hoffmann
- 10. The directionality of desire in the economy of qualities: the case of retailers, refrigeration and reconstituted orange juice Josephine Mylan
- 11. The making of a zero-carbon home Heather Lovell
- 12. Wind power activism: epistemic struggles in the formation of eco-ethical selves at Vattenfall Annika Skoglund and Steffen Böhm
- 13. Conclusions Harriet Bulkeley, Matthew Paterson and Johannes Stripple
- Index.
