Governing Sustainable Development

Partnerships, Protests and Power at the World Summit

Bibliographic Data

ID19979989
AuthorsCarl Death (0000-0002-1601-9473, corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages208
Publication date2010-07-14
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byGoverning development: Neoliberalism, Microcredit, and Rational Economic Woman, Katharine N Rankin, 2001
VenueGoverning sustainable development (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Manchester (PUBLISHER • GB)
OpenAlexW217995059
Open LibraryOL24029395M
ISBN9780203847411
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDbAjHBQAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received21

Multilateral UN summits from Stockholm to Copenhagen have set the pace and direction for the global governance of sustainable development. The 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was a key moment in the evolution of sustainable development as a discourse and summitry as a technology of government. It firmly established multi-stakeholder partnerships, carbon-trading and communication strategies as primary techniques for dealing with environmental crises. It was also a significant event in terms of South African domestic politics, witnessing some of the largest protests since the end of Apartheid. Carl Death draws on Foucauldian governmentality literature to argue that the Johannesburg Summit was a key site for the refashioning of sustainable development as advanced liberal government; for the emergence of an exemplary logic of rule; and for the mutually interdependent relationship between ‘mega-events’ (summits, world cups, Olympic games) and ‘mega-protests’ understood as Foucauldian counter-conducts. Analysing detailed and original research on the WSSD, Death argues that summits work to make politically sustainable a global order which is manifestly unsustainable. Paradoxically however, they also provide opportunities for the status quo to be protested and resisted. This work will be of great interest to scholars of development studies, global governance and environmental politics

Corporate governance · Earth Summit · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Governmentality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Status quo · Summit · Sustainable development · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · International Development and Aid · Public Administration · Business & Economics · Coopération internationale · Development · Développement durable · Economic conditions · Environmental economics · International cooperation · politics and government · South Africa · World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002 : Johannesburg · World Summit on Sustainable Development. fast (OCoLC)fst01409911

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