Climate Territories

A Global Soul for the Global South

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3948223
AutoresTimothy Doyle (The University of Adelaide, autor de correspondencia), Sanjay Chaturvedi (0000-0003-2495-0329, Panjab University)
Año2010
Volumen15
Número3
Páginas516-535
Fecha de publicación2010-08-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650040903501054
OpenAlexW2009477411
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19

In this article, we depict climate as an issue which deterritorialises existing geopolitical realities in a manner which suits the discourses of both elite science and corporate globalisation. In this deterritorialisation, the politics of place, of difference, are removed; the divisions between North and South – the Minority and Majority Worlds – must melt away as all peoples become citizen-consumers in need of a morally conservative (using global archetypal myths of flood and fire) but economically neo-liberal global soul with which to confront the global nemesis of climate change. This deterritorialisation is constructed from a Northern (particularly a Western European) position. It emerges from post-material and post-industrial environmental discourses, largely ignoring the discourses and frames of post-colonial environmentalism (and environmental debt) which are far more appropriate when describing the environmental and developmental realities of the Global South. In the article, we introduce the case of India, as both its civil society and governments wrestle with the new realities of the global climate change agenda. We show how India's official framing of climate change discourse, overwhelmingly dictated and driven by the imperatives of economic growth, continues to oscillate between the ‘scientific’ underpinnings of deterritorialised-global representations of climate change and the growing trends to reterritorialise multifaceted climate space through geopolitical-geoeconomic reasonings

Civil society · Climate change · Developmentalism · Elite · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Geography · Geopolitics · Global commons · Global warming · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Law