Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance: (De)constructing the Greenhouse (Interventions)

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Synopsis
Global climate change is perceived to be one of the biggest challenges for international politics in the 21st century. This work seeks to fuse a global governance perspective together with different interpretive approaches, offering a novel way of looking at international climate politics. Equipped with a common interpretive tool-kit, the authors examine different issue-areas and excavate the contours of an overall pattern – the depoliticisation of climate governance. It is this concept which represents the overarching theme connecting the different contributions, addressing issues such as how the securitization of climate change conceals its socio-economic roots; how highly political decisions and value-judgements are couched in the terms of science; how the reframing of climate change as a matter of economic calculation and investment narrows the scope of political action; and how the prevailing concentration on technological solutions to climate change turns it into a mere administrative issue to be tackled by experts. Highlighting the depoliticisation of highly political issues provides a means to bring the political back into one of the most important issue areas of 21st century world politics. The editors have assembled a series of 14 interpretive inquiries into discourses of global climate governance which aim to flesh out an interpretive methodology, demonstrating the value it offers to those seeking to achieve a better understanding of global climate governance. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, political theory and climate change.
Copyright:
2013

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ISBN-13:
9781135924126
Related ISBNs:
9780203385579, 9780415521888, 9780415521888, 9781138909304, 9781138909304
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Chris Methmann and Delf Rothe and Benjamin Stephan
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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Edited by:
Chris Methmann
Edited by:
Delf Rothe
Edited by:
Benjamin Stephan

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