Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change

Devices, Desires and Dissent

Harriet Bulkeley, Matthew Paterson, Johannes Stripple

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781107166271
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316786659
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Environmental Law
• Index: Law

Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change provides a new perspective on how climate change matters in policy-making, business and everyday life. It argues that the work of low carbon transitions takes place through the creation of devices, the mobilisation of desires, and the articulation of dissent. Using case studies from the US, Australia, and Europe, the book examines the creation and contestation of new forms of cultural politics - of how a climate-changed society is articulated, realized and contested. Through this approach it opens up questions about how, where and by whom climate politics is conducted and the ways in which we might respond differently to this societal challenge. This book provides a key reference point for the emerging academic community working on the cultural politics of climate change, and a means through which to engage this new area of research with the broader social sciences.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• 2 CHANGE: The European Commission’s Climate Campaign as a Technique of Government
• 3 Devising Low-Carbon Desires in the Australian Urban Economy
• 4 Low-Carbon Devices and Desires in Community Housing Retrofit
• 5 Caring for the Low-Carbon Self: The Government of Self and Others in the World as a Gas Greenhouse
• 6 Grief, Loss and the Cultural Politics of Climate Change
• 7 Culture, Technology, and Transport: Navigating a Path to Low-Carbon Urban Mobilities in the United States
• 8 “The Everyday Choices We Make Matter”: Urban Climate Politics and the Postpolitics of Responsibility and Action
• 9 Strategic Engagements with Resistance Against Energy-Efficient Devices – Exploring the Hidden Politics of Comfort Desires in Housing
• 10 The Directionality of Desire in the Economy of Qualities: The Case of Retailers, Refrigeration and Reconstituted Orange Juice
• 11 The Making of a Zero-Carbon Home
• 12 Wind Power Activism: Epistemic Struggles in the Formation of Eco-Ethical Selves at Vattenfall
• 13 Conclusions
• References
• Index