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Haste : the slow politics of climate urgency

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  1. Haste : the slow politics of climate urgency / edited by Håvard Haarstad, Jacob Grandin, Kristin Kjaerås and Eleanor Johnson.
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  1. London : UCL Press, 2023.
  2. ©2023

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  1. Haarstad, Håvard
  2. Grandin, Jacob
  3. Kjaerås, Kristin
  4. Johnson, Eleanor
Description
  1. xiv, 249 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. What does it mean politically to construct climate change as a matter of urgency? We are certainly running out of time to stop climate change. But perhaps this particular understanding of urgency could be at the heart of the problem. When in haste, we make more mistakes, we overlook things, we get tunnel vision. Here we make the case for a 'slow politics of urgency'. Rather than rushing and speeding up, the sustainable future is arguably better served by us challenging the dominant framings through which we understand time and change in society. Transformation to meet the climate challenge requires multiple temporalities of change, speeding up certain types of change processes but also slowing things down. While recognizing the need for certain types of urgency in climate politics, Haste directs attention to the different and alternative temporalities at play in climate and sustainability politics. It addresses several key issues on climate urgency: How do we accommodate concerns that are undermined by the politics of urgency, such as participation and justice? How do we act upon the urgency of the climate challenge without reproducing the problems that speeding up of social processes has brought? What do the slow politics of urgency look like in practice? Divided into 23 short and accessible chapters, written by both established and emerging scholars from different disciplines, Haste tackles a major problem in contemporary climate change research and offers creative perspectives on pathways out of the climate emergency.
Subject
  1. Climatic changes > Political aspects
  2. Climatic changes > Social aspects
  3. Climatic changes > Government policy
  4. Sustainable development
  5. Climat > Changements > Aspect politique
  6. Climat > Changements > Aspect social
  7. Développement durable
  8. sustainable development
  9. Climatic changes > Government policy
  10. Climatic changes > Political aspects
  11. Climatic changes > Social aspects
  12. Sustainable development
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional formats (note)
  1. Also available via the World Wide Web.