Kellan Anfinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1186263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kellan Anfinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kellan |
| FAMILY NAME | Anfinson |
| SIGNATURE | ANFINSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2006-0062 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Does polycentrism deliver? A case study of energy community governance in Europe
The European Union's Clean Energy Package (CEP) plans to transform ‘passive consumers’ into ‘active citizens’ to support the transition to a carbon-neutral energy system by 2050. By stimulating the growth of renewable energy communities, the CEP works towards the redefinition of renewable energy as an economic commodity to a common good. In this paper, we approach the implementation of the CEP through the notion of polycentricity. Building on pre…
Ecocritique at the End of the World
This essay revisits Timothy W. Luke’s Ecocritique to make a case for its relevance today, when the world is on the brink of runaway climate change and it is unclear what direction societies will take. To do so, it proceeds in three parts. First, it outlines three significant shifts that have taken place, undermining some of the coordinates that guided Luke’s Ecocritique and raising new problems for political ecology today. Then, it draws a few le…
Capture or Empowerment
The European renewable energy transition is a leading model for responding to the urgent threat of climate change, which it does by empowering citizens. Drawing on Foucault’s analysis of German neoliberalism, this article argues that despite some measure of empowerment, the economic constraints structuring the transition ultimately disempower citizens, undermining the attainment of environmental goals. Specifically, the transition gives citizens …
Climate Change and the New Politics of Violence
Climate change complicates political violence while producing new forms and scales of it. This has led the climate movement to fail to come to terms with both the violence of climate change and nonviolence as a tactic of resistance. The article begins by counterposing the violence of climate change to the consensus for nonviolence as the only tactic for achieving systemic political change. It then moves beyond that consensus by drawing on Andreas…
How to tell the truth about climate change
Scientific knowledge, it is argued, is insufficient to overcome climate skepticism. Spiritual truth is proposed as a way to do so. First, the cases of Eric Holthaus and Paul Kingsnorth are examined. Though they knew about climate change, they were only able to tell the truth and act on it after a personal collapse that transformed them. Telling the truth in this way carried a political force that their previous advocacy did not. These figures hel…
Risk or Security
Schmitt's thought, so linked to events in the twentieth century, now seems likely to remain influential in the twenty-first. This is partially due to recent attempts to revitalize his theory in terms of the event.1 It is also due to the extrajudicial events that impinge upon political systems today, such as illegitimate and often racialized police killings, drone strikes, political emergencies brought on by climate change, and the advent of the g…
Capture or Empowerment
The European renewable energy transition is a leading model for responding to the urgent threat of climate change, which it does by empowering citizens. Drawing on Foucault’s analysis of German neoliberalism, this article argues that despite some measure of empowerment, the economic constraints structuring the transition ultimately disempower citizens, undermining the attainment of environmental goals. Specifically, the transition gives citizens …
Climate Change and the New Politics of Violence
Climate change complicates political violence while producing new forms and scales of it. This has led the climate movement to fail to come to terms with both the violence of climate change and nonviolence as a tactic of resistance. The article begins by counterposing the violence of climate change to the consensus for nonviolence as the only tactic for achieving systemic political change. It then moves beyond that consensus by drawing on Andreas…
How to tell the truth about climate change
Scientific knowledge, it is argued, is insufficient to overcome climate skepticism. Spiritual truth is proposed as a way to do so. First, the cases of Eric Holthaus and Paul Kingsnorth are examined. Though they knew about climate change, they were only able to tell the truth and act on it after a personal collapse that transformed them. Telling the truth in this way carried a political force that their previous advocacy did not. These figures hel…
Risk or Security
Schmitt's thought, so linked to events in the twentieth century, now seems likely to remain influential in the twenty-first. This is partially due to recent attempts to revitalize his theory in terms of the event.1 It is also due to the extrajudicial events that impinge upon political systems today, such as illegitimate and often racialized police killings, drone strikes, political emergencies brought on by climate change, and the advent of the g…
How to tell the truth about climate change
Scientific knowledge, it is argued, is insufficient to overcome climate skepticism. Spiritual truth is proposed as a way to do so. First, the cases of Eric Holthaus and Paul Kingsnorth are examined. Though they knew about climate change, they were only able to tell the truth and act on it after a personal collapse that transformed them. Telling the truth in this way carried a political force that their previous advocacy did not. These figures hel…
Climate Change and the New Politics of Violence
Climate change complicates political violence while producing new forms and scales of it. This has led the climate movement to fail to come to terms with both the violence of climate change and nonviolence as a tactic of resistance. The article begins by counterposing the violence of climate change to the consensus for nonviolence as the only tactic for achieving systemic political change. It then moves beyond that consensus by drawing on Andreas…
Does polycentrism deliver? A case study of energy community governance in Europe
The European Union's Clean Energy Package (CEP) plans to transform ‘passive consumers’ into ‘active citizens’ to support the transition to a carbon-neutral energy system by 2050. By stimulating the growth of renewable energy communities, the CEP works towards the redefinition of renewable energy as an economic commodity to a common good. In this paper, we approach the implementation of the CEP through the notion of polycentricity. Building on pre…
Ecocritique at the End of the World
This essay revisits Timothy W. Luke’s Ecocritique to make a case for its relevance today, when the world is on the brink of runaway climate change and it is unclear what direction societies will take. To do so, it proceeds in three parts. First, it outlines three significant shifts that have taken place, undermining some of the coordinates that guided Luke’s Ecocritique and raising new problems for political ecology today. Then, it draws a few le…
Capture or Empowerment
The European renewable energy transition is a leading model for responding to the urgent threat of climate change, which it does by empowering citizens. Drawing on Foucault’s analysis of German neoliberalism, this article argues that despite some measure of empowerment, the economic constraints structuring the transition ultimately disempower citizens, undermining the attainment of environmental goals. Specifically, the transition gives citizens …
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Climate change (2 works)