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- Bulkeley, Harriet, et al.
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Conclusions
- 2016
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Ingår i: Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change : Devices, Desires and Dissent - Devices, Desires and Dissent. - 9781107166271 - 9781316694473 ; , s. 189-197
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a well-known story in climate change circles about the campaign run by opponents of action on climate change in the United States in the run-up to the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. A prominent ad in the campaign featured a stereotypical soccer mom, who declared: “The government wants to take away my SUV” (Schneider 2002). The ad is usually read in terms of the fossil fuel corporations’ strategy to undermine Kyoto, and action on climate change more generally, and the use of AstroTurf initiatives - corporate front organizations claiming to represent the grassroots - to advance that strategy. But there is another possible reading of this campaign, and this specific ad, which the framework developed in this book helps to illuminate. That is, contained within its narrative is the intertwining of devices, desires, and dissent in ways that help us understand how and why high-carbon practices and economies are so robust. It is precisely the intertwined sets of affective desires (motherhood and social obligation, as well as possession itself, as in “my SUV”) and the devices that are the objects of those desires (the SUV and its embedding in automobility as a whole, the soccer game) that serve to organize dissent against action on climate change. Many of the chapters in this book have shown, in diverse and often mundane ways, similar combinations of devices, desires, and dissent that operate to block low-carbon transitions. These ways are deeply socially and culturally embedded. Thus, the chapters in this book underscore how difficult it is to produce change, and how much work is involved. The high-carbon world is robust. Our framework is useful in helping us understand how this world comes into being, the forms of culture and politics that hold it together, and the processes through which it might fall apart. This is an important conclusion because much of the contemporary discourse on climate change policy and governance seems to assume that if certain barriers were removed, then a low-carbon transition would start as a smooth and manageable transition, from “here” to “there.”.
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- Bulkeley, Harriet, et al.
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Introduction
- 2016
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Ingår i: Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change : Devices, Desires and Dissent - Devices, Desires and Dissent. - 9781107166271 - 9781316694473 ; , s. 1-23
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The footprint of climate change is now clearly visible within the culture industries. Museum exhibitions are held, newspaper headlines constructed, novels are written, films are screened and various art forms are provoked by and around the themes of the changing climate and its societal implications. This explicit cultural dimension, alongside the complex scientific, economic, social and political facets of climate change, is attracting increasing academic attention (Hulme 2009; Crow and Boykoff 2014). Yet despite the growing interest in climate change across the social sciences, the cultural domain is often reified, limiting its scope to these cultural industries and thus treating it as a separate sphere of social life analyzed in isolation from other dimensions of the climate problematic. Equally problematic are analyses that tend to relegate the cultural dimensions of climate change to a relatively simple set of factors that can be used to explain the more important questions of, for example, how and why individual behavior will or will not shift in relation to energy consumption, or why actors take certain positions within the international negotiations. In this book, we seek to take a different approach, one in which the cultural responses to climate change are considered as also economic, social and political. In short, we seek to explore the cultural politics of climate change. In this book, we want to build on initial attempts to think about climate politics as cultural politics. Adopting this perspective requires that we think of the nature and workings of power as always and already cultural, and of culture - the meanings, artifacts and practices that animate society - as intimately political. Previous such attempts include works on social practices surrounding energy use (Shove and Walker 2010; Shove and Spurling 2013), some of the literature on carbon market politics (Descheneau and Paterson 2011; various contributions to Newell and Boykoff 2012; and contributions to Stephan and Lane 2014), some of the work on media and communications (Crow and Boykoff 2014) and cultural representation more broadly (Boykoff et al. 2010). Nevertheless, we aim to go beyond the important and useful contribution of these works in a number of ways.
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- Bulkeley, Harriet, et al.
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Reflections and Way Forward
- 2014
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Ingår i: Governing the Climate: New Approaches to Rationality, Politics and Power. - 9781107046269
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- Adman, Per, et al.
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171 forskare: ”Vi vuxna bör också klimatprotestera”
- 2019
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Ingår i: Dagens nyheter (DN debatt). - Stockholm. - 1101-2447.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- DN DEBATT 26/9. Vuxna bör följa uppmaningen från ungdomarna i Fridays for future-rörelsen och protestera eftersom det politiska ledarskapet är otillräckligt. Omfattande och långvariga påtryckningar från hela samhället behövs för att få de politiskt ansvariga att utöva det ledarskap som klimatkrisen kräver, skriver 171 forskare i samhällsvetenskap och humaniora.
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AnthropoScenes : A climate fiction competition
- 2020
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 2019, the Climaginaries project ran a climate fiction competition. Out of more than 40 entries, five winners were selected and published in this collection. More of the entries can be found on climaginaries.org/anthroposcenes.
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