No Place for the Political

Micro‐Geographies of the Paris Climate Conference 2015

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ID8097765
AuthorsFlorian Weisser (Department for Geography University of Bonn Bonn Germany, corresponding author), D Müller-Mahn (0000-0001-5266-195X, University of Bonn), Detlef Müller‐mahn (Department for Geography University of Bonn Bonn Germany)
Year2016
Volume49
Issue3
Pages802-820
Publication date2016-10-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntipode (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-4812 • E-ISSN: 1467-8330
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/anti.12290
OpenAlexW2528126689
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited49

Building upon post‐foundational political philosophies, this article scrutinizes the Paris Climate Conference in December 2015 from a micro‐geographical perspective. The analysis suggests that three different spaces exist at the site of the summit and reveals how their constituting practices and material arrangements rendered “Paris” post‐democratic. We begin with exposing the staged statements of the world's political elites in the meticulously orchestrated Leaders Event as different phenotypes of the post‐democratic condition. We then investigate the formal negotiations in the cordoned‐off backrooms, where positions within the system were at stake, but not the system as such. Finally, we wander through the strictly policed “trade fair” and unveil attempts to entice delegates into techno‐managerial solutions to the climate crisis. In the conclusion, we ponder over the prospects of environmental activism at the COPs in the light of their massive depoliticization

Art · Cartography · Climate change · Climate justice · Democracy · Event (particle physics · Geography · Negotiation · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Summit · Visual arts · Ecology · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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