The contested politics of climate change and the crisis of neo-liberalism

Featherstone, D.J. (2013) The contested politics of climate change and the crisis of neo-liberalism. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 12(1), pp. 44-64.

Abstract

Climate change must be placed in relation to broader contestation of unequal social and environmental relations and specifically in relation to the crisis of neoliberalism. I contest those accounts of climate change which isolate carbon emissions from the unequal social and environmental relations upon which neoliberal globalization depends. I locate the mobilizations during the COP15 round of climate negotiations in relation to political trajectories that have shaped antagonistic ways of constructing climate change politics. These forms of contentious action challenge the dominant terms of climate change politics in a number of important ways, and at the same time the repressive policing of demonstrations and actions open up the space for protests and for productive debates around the environmental politics of climate change.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Featherstone, Dr David
• Authors: Featherstone, D.J.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Geographical and Earth Sciences > Geography
• Journal Name: ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
• ISSN: 1492-9732
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2013 The Authors
• First Published: First published in ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 12(1):44-64
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License