Governing the climate : new approaches to rationality, power and politics

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Governing the climate : new approaches to rationality, power and politics

Title remainder

new approaches to rationality, power and politics

Statement of responsibility

edited by Johannes Stripple, Lund University ; Harriet Bulkeley, Durham University

Creator

• Stripple, Johannes

Contributor

• Bulkeley, Harriet, 1972-

Author

• Bulkeley, Harriet, 1972-

Editor

• Bulkeley, Harriet, 1972-
• Stripple, Johannes

Subject

• Environmental policy
• Environmental policy -- International cooperation
• Global environmental change -- Government policy
• Global environmental change -- International cooperation
• Climatic changes -- Government policy
• Climatic changes -- International cooperation

Language

eng

Summary

"Climate change is an issue that transcends and exceeds formal political and geographical boundaries. Social scientists are increasingly studying how effective policies on climate change can be enacted at the global level, 'beyond the state'. Such perspectives take into account governance mechanisms with public, hybrid and private sources of authority. Studies are raising questions about the ways in which state authority is constituted and practiced in the climate arena, and the implications for how we understand the potential and limits for addressing the climate problem. This book focuses on the rationalities and practices by which a carbon-constrained world is represented, categorized and ordered. The book will enable investigations into a range of sites (e.g., the body, home, shopping centre, firm, city, forests, streets, international bureaucracies, financial flows, migrants and refugees) where subjectivities around climate change and carbon are formed and contested. Despite a growing interest in this area of work, the field remains fragmented and diffuse. This edited collection brings together the leading scholarship in the field to cast new light on the question of how, why, and with what implications climate governance is taking place. It is the first volume to collect this body of scholarship, and provides a key reference point in the growing debate about climate change across the social sciences"--

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography