Governing the Climate
New Approaches to Rationality, Power and Politics

The first volume on critical social and political studies of climate change for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.

Johannes Stripple (Edited by), Harriet Bulkeley (Edited by)

9781107624603, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 March 2018

294 pages, 10 b/w illus.
25.5 x 18 x 1.6 cm, 0.58 kg

'Climate change is simply too important to leave solely to conventional modes of governance. The kind of theoretical work in this volume can't solve climate problems, nor can it provide clear administrative blueprints for policy makers, but it does show forcefully that in the face of rapid climate change thinking in new ways about many things is now unavoidable both in the United Nations system and beyond.' Simon Dalby, ACUNS (acuns.org)

Despite a growing interest in critical social and political studies of climate change, the field remains fragmented and diffuse. This is the first volume to collect this body of scholarship, providing a key reference point in the growing debate about climate change across the social sciences. The book provides a new set of insights into the ways in which climate change is creating new forms of social order, and the ways in which they are structured through the workings of rationality, power and politics. Governing the Climate is invaluable for three main audiences: social science researchers and advanced students in the field of climate change; the wider research community interested in global environmental politics and global environmental governance; and policy makers and researchers concerned more broadly with environmental politics at international, national and local levels.

Introduction Johannes Stripple and Harriet Bulkeley
Part I. Governmentality, Critical Theory and Climate Change: 1. Bringing governmentality to the study of global governance Eva Lövbrand and Johannes Stripple
2. Experimenting on climate governmentality with actor-network theory Anders Blok
3. Third side of the coin: hegemony and governmentality in global climate politics Benjamin Stephan, Delf Rothe and Chris Methman
4. The limits of climate governmentality Carl Death
Part II. Cases of Climate Government: Theorising Practice: 5. Neuro-liberal climatic governmentalities Marc Whitehead, Rhys Jones and Jessica Pykett
6. Making carbon calculations Sally Eden
7. Smart meters and the governance of energy use in the household Tom Hargreaves
8. Translation loops and shifting rationalities of transnational bioenergy governance Jarmo Kortelainen and Moritz Albrecht
9. Governing mobile species in a climate-changed world Juliet J. Fall
10. Measuring forest carbon Heather Lovell
11. Climate security as governmentality: from precaution to preparedness Angela Oels
Part III. Future Directions: 12. The rise and fall of the global climate polity Olaf Corry
13. Climate change multiple Samuel Randalls
14. Reflections and way forward Harriet Bulkeley and Johannes Stripple.

Subject Areas: The environment [RN], Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning [R]