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Time and the spatial post-politics of climate change : insights from Australia

Time and the spatial post-politics of climate change : insights from Australia
Australia ; Climate ; Climatic change ; Ecological footprint ; Governance ; Post-politics ; Temporality ; Theory
Australie ; Changement climatique ; Climat ; Empreinte écologique ; Energie propre ; Gouvernance ; Post-politique ; RANCIÈRE (J.) ; Temporalité ; Théorie
This paper examines the post-politics of climate change in Australia and discuss an important but otherwise little remarked temporality. First, we note the spatial structuring of Rancière's post-political theorization as it informs geographical
research on the governance of social and environmental issues. Second, we identify a post-politics in climate change policy developed by the Australian federal government (under Rudd then Gillard) which culminated in 2011 with its carbon pricing proposals
and subsequent clean energy plan. Third, referring to the discursive material associated with these developments, we discuss the critical importance of time in the climate change debate, returning us to comment on the problematic temporality of post-politics
with a word of caution about any re-emergence here of the political.

Progress in global climate change politics ? Reasserting national state territoriality in a 'post-political' world

Progress in global climate change politics ? Reasserting national state territoriality in a 'post-political' world
Climatic change ; Global change ; Globalization ; Nation-state ; Policy ; Post-political consensus ; Territoriality
This paper builds on previous geographical and social science work at the boundaries of climate change by(re)asserting the significance of the territoriality of the national state in global climate negotiations. Using post-political consensus
as a theoretical framework and drawing upon examples from climate change negotiations like Kyoto and Copenhagen, it argues that it is too premature to fetishize the consensus of, and collectivism between national states in global climate politics. As geographers
, ‘territoriality’, both as a material and discursive device, is fundamental in, and constitutive of, how we interpret and understand climate change and the politics thereof.

Practices, politics, performativities : documents in the international negotiations on climate change

Practices, politics, performativities : documents in the international negotiations on climate change
Climate ; Climatic change ; Performativity ; Political geography ; Qatar
Changement climatique ; Climat ; Conférence internationale ; Document ; Doha ; Géographie politique ; Négociations internationales ; Performativité ; Politique internationale ; Qatar
This article examines practices, politics, performativities in document production in the 2012 Doha Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. First, it unpacks the manifold practical and material entanglements
of documents that are crucial for their production. Second, it discloses the political dimensions of routinised action and its supporting infrastructures by shedding light on the conflicting practices behind agreed documents. Third, it reconsiders the role
of documents as neutral media in politics by paying tribute to the performative role they play in organisational action. It concludes by arguing that they are not only the necessary condition for international politics but might also inform a social ontology

The necessity of a multiscalar analysis of climate justice

The necessity of a multiscalar analysis of climate justice
Adaptation ; Climate finance ; Climate justice ; Policy ; Political ecology ; Scale ; Vulnerability
Adaptation ; Echelle ; Ecologie politique ; Financement du climat ; Justice climatique ; Politique ; Vulnérabilité
The article suggests that a multiscalar and interdisciplinary construct is required to analyse climate justice as an appraisal of the distribution of climate finance for adaptation. Current approaches to climate justice lack in empirical research

The construction of global warming and the politics of science

The construction of global warming and the politics of science
Climatic warming ; Environment ; Environmental management ; Global change ; Greenhouse effect ; Modelling ; Policy ; Sciences ; Society-environment relationship
reinforced and been reinforced by the technocratic inclinations of global climate management. The social organization of climate change science and its articulation with the political process raise important questions about trust, uncertainty, and expertise
. The article concludes with a discussion of the political brittleness of this dominant science-led and global-scale formulation of the climate change problem and the need of a more reflexive politics.
By retracing the history of climate modeling and of several scientific controversies, the A. unmasks the tacit social and epistemic commitments implied by its specific practices. The specific scientific framing of global climate change has

Anti-politics, Apocalypse and Adaptation in Kenya's National Climate Change Response Strategy

Anti-politics, Apocalypse and Adaptation in Kenya's National Climate Change Response Strategy
Adaptation ; Africa ; Climate ; Climatic change ; Discourse ; Economic growth ; Economy ; Financing ; Kenya ; Risk ; adaptation ; anti-politics ; climate chance
Adaptation ; Changement climatique ; Climat ; Croissance économique ; Discours ; Economie ; Financement ; Kenya ; Risque
Climate change is increasingly discussed in apocalyptic terms, a spectre-invoking crisis discourse that simultaneously legitimises society-wide action, while de-politicising this very political issue. This paper examines the depoliticisation
of climate change adaptation in Kenya, a country which has been recently praised as a developing country with a progressive adaptation policy. Using examples from fieldwork in Kenya, it focusses on Kenya's recently adopted National Climate Change Response
Strategy (NCCRS), and argues that Kenya's adaptation discourse is driven by particular imaginaries, specifically: adaptation as a ‘universal apocalypse’, and adaptation as a technical-economic problem. These function as deliberate anti-political strategies
, aimed at obscuring the highly charged realities of adaptation. For Kenya's current political elite adaptation is predominantly a matter of reducing the perceived risks to economic growth, and enhancing opportunities to gain revenue from international
funding sources. This is achieved through a discursive construction of a particular vision of adaptation, and against a backdrop of a capitalist strategy for growth. The paper concludes that a critical and political interpretation of the NCCRS and similar
adaptation strategies is necessary to keep equity and justice at the centre of the climate debate, and to dispel the myth of adaptation policy making as a rational and disinterested process.

Network political ecology. Method and theory in climate change vulnerability and adaptation research

Network political ecology. Method and theory in climate change vulnerability and adaptation research
Adaptation ; Climatic change ; Farm ; India ; Irrigation ; Network ; Political ecology ; Rajasthan ; Scale ; Underground water ; Vulnerability
of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. Network political ecology, attentive to scale as socio-ecologically produced and grounded in a regional resource use system, is one such approach that fills this gap in middle-range theory necessary to understand
The paper argues for the development of network political ecology, drawing on the insights from regional political ecology and recent advancements in network theories of scale, to meet the challenges of investigating the meso-scale problem

The end of geography and radical politics in Baudrillard's philosophy

The end of geography and radical politics in Baudrillard's philosophy
In a climate of inverted millenarianism or rampant Endism it is no surprise that Baudrillard's oeuvre consists of a multiplicity of ends or liquidations. In this context the A. begins to work out the implications of Baudrillard's philosophy
for geography and politics. He argues that because the representational imaginary is obliterated in simulation it is the end of geography and radical politics which Baudrillard's work presents.

Technocratic norms, political culture and climate change governance

Technocratic norms, political culture and climate change governance
Australie ; California ; Changement climatique ; Climat ; Culture politique ; Etats-Unis ; Europe ; Gaz à effet de serre ; Législation ; Norme technocratique ; Politique climatique ; Union européenne
Australia ; California ; Climate ; Climate policy ; Climatic change ; Europe ; European Union ; Greenhouse gases emissions ; Legislation ; United States of America
The goal of this article is to develop a better understanding of how purportedly universalistic prescriptions for addressing climate change developed at the global level – the financialization of carbon emissions through managed markets – interact
with local political economic cultures. It argues local political economic cultures play a crucial role in governing how local economies operate and that universalistic policy prescriptions are unlikely to succeed if they do not incorporate flexibility
to take account of unique local economic practices. To support this argument, it examines the dynamics of climate governance through the creation of emissions markets in three different cultural contexts: the European Union, Australia, and the state
of California in the United States. In each, it finds varying interactions between global technocratic narratives and scale-level political and cultural structures. These context specific interactions in turn contribute to different governance and economic
outcomes with respect to climate change.

Market failure at Durban’s climate summit

Market failure at Durban’s climate summit
Climate ; Climatic change ; Economic cost ; Emission rights ; Environment ; Environmental degradation ; International organization ; Market failure ; Political economy ; United Nations
Calcul économique ; Changement climatique ; Climat ; Droits d'émission ; Défaillance du marché ; Dégradation de l'environnement ; Economie politique ; Environnement ; Nations-Unies ; Organisation internationale ; Sommet de Durban
The United Nations climate negotiations, especially the annual Conference of the Parties (COPs) have failed in their objectives. The 2011 Durban meeting (COP17) illustrated the problems and conflicting interests involved. The lessons
for geopolitical, environmental and political-economic dynamics are important for geographers to consider given the discipline’s interest in the technical details of financial fixes for ecological problems in hotly contested socio-political settings. - (AJC)

Beyond nuclear winter : on the limitations of science in political debate

Beyond nuclear winter : on the limitations of science in political debate
Les incidences d'une guerre nucléaire sur l'environnement, le climat et la biosphère : un état de la littérature et des réactions de l'opinion sur la question.

International science, domestic politics : Russian reception of international climate-change assessments

International science, domestic politics : Russian reception of international climate-change assessments
Climatic change ; Diffusion ; Expertise ; Knowledge ; Policy ; Russia ; Russians
The analytical heart of the paper is a case-study analysis based on interviews with Russian scientists who have participated in international climate assessment exercises. Russian participants did not play a role as informational entrepreneurs

Political and social divisions over climate change among young Queenslanders

Political and social divisions over climate change among young Queenslanders
Attitude ; Australia ; Climatic change ; Climatic warming ; Environment ; Political geography ; Political party ; Queensland ; Young people
This article examines the political and social divisions over climate change among young Queenslanders. Firstly, it shows that parental education has an important influence upon the development of environmental attitudes among young people
are. Political party identification has an important influence upon environmental concerns even among these 16–17-year olds, with young conservative party identifiers far less likely than Greens or Labor identifiers to believe that global warming will pose
a serious risk in their lifetime, after controlling for beliefs in human-induced climate change.

Becoming differently modern : geographic contributions to a generative climate politics

Becoming differently modern : geographic contributions to a generative climate politics
Capitalism ; Climatic change ; Human geography ; Human impact ; Modernism ; Policy ; Research ; Scale
Anthropogenic climate change is a modern problem in its historical origins and discursive framing. Modernity separates people from climate change in a number of ways. Recent research in human geography routinely combines both deconstructive impulses
to suggest how to reframe climate change and climate change response in two main ways: elaborating human and non-human continuities and differences, and identifying and harnessing vernacular capacities.

The cultural politics of climate change discourse in UK tabloids

The cultural politics of climate change discourse in UK tabloids
Climatic change ; Cultural studies ; Discourse ; Perception ; Policy ; Press ; United Kingdom

A visceral politics of sound

A visceral politics of sound
Activisme ; Affectivité ; Australie ; Changement climatique ; Climat ; Corps humain ; Défilé ; Géographie sociale ; Helensburg ; Mobilisation ; New South Wales ; Rythme ; Son
Activism ; Affect ; Australia ; Climate ; Climatic change ; Human body ; Mobilisation ; New South Wales ; Social geography
The AA. examine the visceral politics of sound through the example of the Climate Camp parade held during October 2009 in Helensburgh, New South Wales, Australia. They argue that visceral experiences of the rhythmic affordances of sounds—flow, pulse

Attributing weather extremes to climate change : A review

Attributing weather extremes to climate change : A review
Adaptation ; Attribution ; Climate extreme ; Climatic change ; Concept ; Damage ; Human impact ; Society-environment relationship
of weather event attribution. There remain outstanding political dangers and obstacles for extreme weather attribution if it is to be used, as some claim it can and should be, for guiding climate adaptation investments, for servicing the putative loss
In this progress report, the A. analyses the nascent science of extreme weather event attribution by examining the field in 4 stages : motivations for extreme weather attribution, methods of attribution, some example case studies and the politics
and damage agenda of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change or for underpinning legal claims for liability for damages caused by extreme weather.

Climatologie et politique

Climate ; Climatic variation ; Environment ; Global change ; Global environment ; Human impact ; Natural resources ; Politics;Policy
Action anthropique ; Changement global ; Climat ; Environnement ; Environnement global ; Politique ; Ressource naturelle ; Variation climatique

Security implications of a worst-case scenario of climate change in the South-west Pacific

Security implications of a worst-case scenario of climate change in the South-west Pacific
Agricultural productivity ; Climatic variation ; Climatic warming ; Forecast ; Global change ; Inundation ; Island ; Land tenure system ; Migration ; Model ; Pacific Region ; Sea level ; Security
Island states as a result of climate-change impacts. Loss of land is the focus of this paper. The A. demonstrates clearly how an environmental threat such as climate change can undermine economic, societal, political and military security in the island
This paper examines the links between climate change and security in the island states of the South-west Pacific. A worst-case scenario of climate change is presented which suggests that land will be lost or rendered uninhabitable in all Pacific
states of the South-west Pacific. Clearly, climate change is an important threat to human security.

Performative research for a climate politics of hope : rethinking geographic scale, “impact” scale, and markets

Performative research for a climate politics of hope : rethinking geographic scale, “impact” scale, and markets
Australia ; Climatic change ; Energy ; Impact ; Market ; New South Wales ; Renewable energy ; Research ; Scale ; Sustainable development
This paper examines the contributions that grassroots renewable energy initiatives might make to a climate changing world. However, to detect the potential of these initiatives, familiar concepts of scale and markets have to be recast. It uses
energy initiatives are helping transform ways of living and working, and building hope in a climate changing world.

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