Climate Change and the New Politics of Violence

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ID6307977
AuthorsKellan Anfinson (0000-0003-2006-0062, Eindhoven University of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume44
Issue1
Pages138-152
Publication date2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0739-3148 • E-ISSN: 1469-9931
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/07393148.2022.2028122
OpenAlexW4211243835
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Climate change complicates political violence while producing new forms and scales of it. This has led the climate movement to fail to come to terms with both the violence of climate change and nonviolence as a tactic of resistance. The article begins by counterposing the violence of climate change to the consensus for nonviolence as the only tactic for achieving systemic political change. It then moves beyond that consensus by drawing on Andreas Maim’s Marxist response, Bruno Latour’s claim that climate change puts us in a situation of war, and a critique of the linkages between consumption, carbon, and imperialism. The article concludes that climate change makes the choice between violence and nonviolence a false one, necessitating new hybrid strategies of violence and nonviolence

Climate change · Environmental ethics · Marxist philosophy · Political economy · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Philosophy · War, Ethics, and Justification · Ecology

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