Haste (eBook, ePUB)

The slow politics of climate urgency
Redaktion: Haarstad, Håvard; Johnson, Eleanor; Kjærås, Kristin; Grandin, Jakob

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: UCL Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800083318
• Artikelnr.: 67060457

Autorenporträt

Håvard Haarstad is professor in the Department of Geography and director of the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen.