Introduction to politics of climate change
Discourses of Policy and Practice in Developing Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5286644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Arnall (0000-0001-6218-5926, School of Agriculture Policy and the Environment University of Reading PO Box 237 Reading RG6 6AR UK), Uma Kothari (0000-0001-8098-6655, School of Environment and Development University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL UK), I Kelman (0000-0002-4191-6969, CICERO Center for International Climate Research) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 180 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 98-101 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/geoj.12054 |
| OpenAlex | W1933042669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 33 |
This Themed Section aims to increase understanding of how the idea of climate change, and the policies and actions that spring from it, travel beyond their origins in natural sciences to meet different political arenas in the developing world. It takes a discursive approach whereby climate change is not just a set of physical processes but also a series of messages, narratives and policy prescriptions. The articles are mostly case study-based and focus on sub-Saharan Africa and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). They are organised around three interlinked themes. The first theme concerns the processes of rapid technicalisation and professionalisation of the climate change ‘industry’, which have sustantially narrowed the boundaries of what can be viewed as a legitimate social response to the problem of global warming. The second theme deals with the ideological effects of the climate change industry, which is ‘depoliticisation’, in this case the deflection of attention away from underlying political conditions of vulnerability and exploitation towards the nature of the physical hazard itself. The third theme concerns the institutional effects of an insufficiently socialised idea of climate change, which is the maintenance of existing relations of power or their reconfiguration in favour of the already powerful. Overall, the articles suggest that greater scrutiny of the discursive and political dimensions of mitigation and adaptation activities is required. In particular, greater attention should be directed towards the policy consequences that governments and donors construct as a result of their framing and rendition of climate change issues
Climate change · Climate Finance · Economics · Environmental resource management · Framing (construction · Geography · Greenhouse gas · International community · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Climate Change and Sustainable Development · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Ecology
Translating Climate Change
A Bit Too Simple
Climate change, local leadership and the formal-informal nexus
Losing ground? Extractive-led development versus environmentalism in the Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Tipnis), Bolivia
A rights-based perspective on adaptive capacity
Reframing adaptation
Constructing the adaptation economy
Technically political
Narrative Forms of Adaptation, Retreat, and Mitigation in Richard Ford's Let Me Be Frank with You
The Hazards of Mainstreaming
Challenging climate change and migration discourse
No change from climate change
Convergence and Divergence of UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions
Reformulating Development? Models of Indigenous Knowledge in International Development
Anti-Politics Machine
Public participation and climate change adaptation
Disaster risk reduction or climate change adaptation
Vulnerability, capacity and resilience
Village Experts and Development Discourse
Discourse as ideology
Managing Climate Insecurity by Ensuring Continuous Capital Accumulation
The Professionalization of Ethics in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – from Servant of Science to Ethical Master
Everyday realities of climate change adaptation in Mozambique
Paradox of Empowerment
Towards a New Political Economy of Climate Change and Development
What do buzzwords do for development policy? a critical look at ‘participation’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘poverty reduction’
Discipline and punishment
We do not want to leave our land’
Drought, desiccation and discourse
Special Issue Introduction
The changing meaning of disaster
Geographical work at the boundaries of climate change
The first climate refugees? Contesting global narratives of climate change in Tuvalu
Authority and Expertise
Translating the 'adaptation to climate change' paradigm
Political discourses of climate change and migration
Beyond the Technocrat? The Professional Expert in Development Practice
Neoliberalising Adaptation to Environmental Change
Rendering the World Unsafe
The wave of the future? Youth advocacy at the nexus of population and climate change
Climate change and the politics of causal reasoning
A climate of control
No change from climate change
Capital and Climate Change
Advancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |