Life politics, nature and the state
Giddens' sociological theory and The Politics of Climate Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5609888 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Thorpe (0000-0002-8588-0507, University of California San Diego), Brynna Jacobson (Department of Sociology University of California San Diego) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 99-122 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-4446.12008 |
| PMID | 23488703 |
| OpenAlex | W1901551613 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 16 |
Anthony Giddens' The Politics of Climate Change represents a significant shift in the way in which he addresses ecological politics. In this book, he rejects the relevance of environmentalism and demarcates climate-change policy from life politics. Giddens addresses climate change in the technocratic mode of simple rather than reflexive modernization. However, Giddens' earlier sociological theory provides the basis for a more reflexive understanding of climate change. Climate change instantiates how, in high modernity, the existential contradiction of the human relationship with nature returns in new form, expressed in life politics and entangled with the structural contradictions of the capitalist state. The interlinking of existential and structural contradiction is manifested in the tension between life politics and the capitalist nation-state. This tension is key for understanding the failures so far of policy responses to climate change
Climate change · Contradiction · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Existentialism · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Technocracy · Ecology · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US
The Nation-State and Violence
Ecological politics in an age of risk
Key Challenges to Ecological Modernization Theory
The Sociology of Anthony Giddens
Uncertainty and environmental learning 1, 2Reconceiving science and policy in the preventive paradigm
The Ecological Revolution
The Global Third Way Debate
Central Problems in Social Theory
A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism
Risk and Environment as Legitimatory Discourses of Technology
Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift
Carbon metabolism
| Citations per year | 0.88 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |