Book contents
- In Search of Climate Politics
- In Search of Climate Politics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms
- 1 Introduction
- 2 In Search of Climate Politics
- 3 Making Climate Policy in the City of Ottawa
- 4 Networked Governance and Carbon Accounting in Ottawa
- 5 Complete Streets and Its Discontents
- 6 Intensifying Conflicts
- 7 Mapping Climate Experimentation in Ottawa
- 8 The University of Ottawa
- 9 Renewing Democratic Politics
- 10 Conclusions
- References
- Index
2 - In Search of Climate Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2021
- In Search of Climate Politics
- In Search of Climate Politics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms
- 1 Introduction
- 2 In Search of Climate Politics
- 3 Making Climate Policy in the City of Ottawa
- 4 Networked Governance and Carbon Accounting in Ottawa
- 5 Complete Streets and Its Discontents
- 6 Intensifying Conflicts
- 7 Mapping Climate Experimentation in Ottawa
- 8 The University of Ottawa
- 9 Renewing Democratic Politics
- 10 Conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
To think politically about climate change, we need to elaborate the arguments I sketched out via the University of Ottawa divestment story in Chapter 1. First, we need to conceptualize explicitly what we mean by politics. Second, we need to think about the political drivers of (and obstacles to) climate change action, a question I will suggest can be understood via a notion of cultural political economy. Third, we need to think about the dynamics that arise out of these first two, which I take to be two-fold: On the one hand a recurring dynamic between depoliticization and repoliticization, and on the other hand a tension I characterize as ‘purification vs. complexity’, between the instinct to want to find simple ‘solutions’ or enemies to fight, and the multidimensional qualities of the high carbon world that needs to be transformed. To start, however, it is perhaps worth thinking a little about how climate change is commonly conceptualized and framed, in public discourse as well as across various academic disciplines, in order to tease out what the politics of these specific climate change frames are.
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- In Search of Climate Politics , pp. 14 - 29Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021