Apocalypse Forever? Post-political Populism and the Spectre of Climate Change
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...This post-political discourse avoids the ‘agonistic confrontation of competing visions of a different socio-ecological order’ (Swyngedouw, 2010: 226), and instead presents the preferred pathway as the only alternative....
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...…literature on political ecology and nature-society geographies provides tools for conceptualizing those dynamics (Elmhirst and Resurreccion, 2008; Forsyth, 2003; Nygren and Rikoon, 2008; Peet and Watts, 2004; Prudham, 2004; Shove, 2010; Sundberg, 2003; Swyngedouw, 2010; Turner and Robbins, 2008)....
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...…are actually those that produced the problem in the first place (commodification of nature – in this case CO2), thereby radically disavowing the social relations and processes through which this hybrid socio-natural quasi-object (Latour, 1993; Swyngedouw, 2006) came into its problematic being....
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...Moreover, the mobilized mechanisms to arrive at this allegedly more benign (past) condition are actually those that produced the problem in the first place (commodification of nature – in this case CO2), thereby radically disavowing the social relations and processes through which this hybrid socio-natural quasi-object (Latour, 1993; Swyngedouw, 2006) came into its problematic being....
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...CO2’s functioning as a commodity (and financialized asset) is dependent on its insertion in a complex governance regime organized around a set of technologies of governance that revolve around reflexive risk-calculation, self-assessment, interest-negotiation and intermediation, accountancy rules and accountancy-based disciplining, detailed quantification and benchmarking of performance (Dean, 1999)....
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...…takes the form of stakeholder participation or forms of participatory governance that operates beyond the state and permits a form of self-management, self-organization and controlled self-disciplining (see Dean, 1999; Lemke, 1999), under the aegis of a non-disputed liberal-capitalist order....
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...…regime organized around a set of technologies of governance that revolve around reflexive risk-calculation, self-assessment, interest-negotiation and intermediation, accountancy rules and accountancy-based disciplining, detailed quantification and benchmarking of performance (Dean, 1999)....
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...This consensual framing is itself sustained by a particular scientific discourse.1 The complex translation and articulation between what Bruno Latour (2004) would call matters of fact versus matters of concern has been thoroughly short-circuited....
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...In this part, we shall chart the characteristics of populism (see, among others, Canovan, 1999; 2005; Laclau, 2005; Mudde, 2004; Žižek, 2006a) as they are expressed in mainstream climate concerns....
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