"Infrastructural geopolitics" of climate knowledge

The Brazilian Earth System Model and the North-South knowledge divide

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ID4354829
AutoresJean Carlos Hochsprung Miguel (0000-0001-5273-029X, Universidade Federal de São Paulo), Martin Mahony (0000-0002-6377-413X, University of East Anglia), M Monteiro (0000-0003-4008-4985, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP))
Año2019
Volumen21
Número51
Páginas44-75
Fecha de publicación2019-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociologias (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1517-4522 • E-ISSN: 1807-0337
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/15174522-0215102
OpenAlexW3033255203
SCIELO_PIDS1517-45222019000200044
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas34

This article examines how geopolitics are embedded into the efforts of Southern nations that try to build new climate knowledge infrastructures. It achieves this through an analysis of the composition of the international climate modelling basis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), viewed from the perspective of the Brazilian Earth System Model (BESM) - the scientific project which placed a Latin American country for the first time inside the global modelling bases of the IPCC. The paper argues that beyond the idea of "infrastructural globalism", a historical process of global scientific cooperation led by developed countries, we also need to understand the "infrastructural geopolitics" of climate models. This concept seeks to describe the actions of developing countries towards minimizing the imbalance of global climate scientific production, and how these countries participate in global climate governance and politics. The analysis of the construction of BESM suggests that national investments in global climate modelling were aimed at attaining scientific sovereignty, which is closely related to a notion of political sovereignty of the nation-state within the international regime of climate change

Climate change · Climate governance · Corporate governance · Earth system science · Economics · Environmental resource management · Geopolitics · Global governance · Global warming · Globalism · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Regional science · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Law · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance