Climate Breakdown in Pakistan
(Post) Colonial Capitalism on the Global Periphery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4849669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aasim Sajjad Akhtar (0000-0002-0557-8712, Quaid-i-Azam University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 523-536 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00472336.2023.2279952 |
| OpenAlex | W4389553555 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Amongst the most devastating extreme weather events in recent years, the 2022 Pakistan floods ostensibly triggered a new-found urgency to reduce emissions and redress other underlying causes of human-induced global warming. Yet multinational corporations and Western governments remain non-committal about shifting away from non-renewable energy, offering meaningful climate and debt financing, or substantively reducing emissions. Meanwhile, the modalities of capital accumulation in postcolonial contexts such as Pakistan are destroying already vulnerable ecosystems, even as they reinforce logics of expropriation and uneven development inherited from colonial times. As Pakistan experiences a demographic explosion and mainstream politics becomes increasingly reactionary, the imperative of posing an alternative hegemonic conception to the dominant development paradigm is ever more acute. This Commentary interrogates the meaning of climate justice so as to bring the global political economy into conversation with the demographic, environmental, and economic trends in the post-colony, with a specific focus on the 2022 floods in Pakistan. It is contended that the Pakistan case can be broadly extrapolated to postcolonial South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, regions that are home to the fastest growing young populations in the world, and also amongst the most vulnerable to climate change
Capitalism · Climate change · Climate justice · Colonialism · Development economics · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Redress · Sociology · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Delusional States
Political Economy of Expulsionary Urbanization
Rethinking Capitalist Development
World as Commodity
Imperialist appropriation in the world economy
Transforming a praetorian polity
Dispossession and the militarised developer state
Infrastructure Nation
The Colonial Rule of Law and the Legal Regime of Exception
Agrarian and Other Histories
Law, State and Agrarian Society in Colonial India
Concrete 'progress
Climate Leviathan
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |