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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"climate politics"”.
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India's Temporal Imaginaries of Climate Change, 1988-2018
The advent of climate change promises extreme disruptions to existing concepts of political time, namely the distinction between the modes of time adopted by modern nation-states, natural time, and the everyday life of human beings. Yet the nation-state remains the primary actor through which …
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Governing Decarbonisation : The State and the New Politics of Climate Change
This dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as a site for progressive climate action. This new politics concerns transformative social change aimed at moving society away from its current dependence on fossil carbon energy. A transition to …
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Greenhouse Democracy: A Political Theory for Climate Change
… of what scholars have called the ‘dominant climate imaginary:’ a way of thinking that animates mainstream climate politics. It proposes in turn a ‘democratic imaginary’ through which to respond to anthropogenic climate change. Through the lens of the dominant imaginary: 1) climate change …
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Climate change, trade unions and the promise of climate solidarity in the UK, 1997-2010
Contemporary climate change politics, dominated by neoliberal and ecological modernisation framings, has reached an impasse. This thesis investigates whether a Marxist critique focused on trade unions might offer an alternative approach. It critically analyses the social science literature on …
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Epistemic geographies of climate change: the IPCC and the spaces, boundaries and politics of knowing
… understood and governed. The phenomenon of climate change stands at this juncture of science, politics, and the elemental materiality of the nonhuman. High-profile controversies about the physical reality, effects and management of the changing climate point to more deep-seated contestations …
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Climate Impasse, Fossil Hegemony, and the Modern Crisis of Imagination
<p>I argue in this dissertation that “climate impasse” — knowing much and doing little about climate change — has become a defining political, social, and cultural problem of the contemporary period (1980s to the present). Supposing that representations of impasse reveal something about the …
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Defeating Cap-and-Trade: Contrarian Access, Organised Disinformation, and the Influence of Fossil Fuel Money in Congress
… how the fossil fuel industry and the broader climate change counter-movement influenced the U.S. congressional debate over cap-and-trade legislation between 2003 and 2010. While extensive scholarship has traced the ideological and institutional foundations of climate denial, less attention has …