DOI: 10.1002/wcc.87
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-79956262459
论文题名: Power, realism, and the ideal of human emancipation in a climate of change
作者: Manuel-Navarrete D
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2010
卷: 1, 期: 6 起始页码: 781
结束页码: 785
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Decision making
; Social sciences
; Adaptive capacity
; Decision making procedure
; Environmental politics
; Global environmental problems
; Incremental changes
; Political thoughts
; Power relations
; Practical problems
; Climate change
英文摘要: Most attempts to formalize climate politics have focused on the reform of current governance regimes, including norms, rules, regulations, political will, and decision-making procedures. Emphasis on reform entails a realist political approach, which only accounts for those incremental changes in power that can be objectively justified in terms of solving practical problems. This paper argues that political realism implicitly supports developmentalist logics of perpetual material growth which are precisely at the root of global environmental problems. Therefore, climate researchers have to move beyond this tradition of political thought, and engage in 'critical theories' and idealist approaches that question contemporary power relations. A few scholars have drawn on critical theory, historical materialism, Foucault, and Gramsci to explore power and human emancipation in the context of global environmental politics. These scholars identify hegemonic structures as essential causes of climate change. Accordingly, current power relations need to be fundamentally challenged, not only whenever extreme poverty averts the basic exercise of adaptive capacities, but, more broadly, whenever modernity and globalization set societies on unsustainable paths. This entails, on the one hand, redefining climate change as an opportunity to transform the structures under which modernity and global capitalism take place. On the other hand, it calls for reinterpreting adaptation within a broader project of universal emancipation from the structures that constrain our essential freedom and, with that, hinder effective and just societal responses to the challenges of climate change. © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76562
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Department of Geography King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Manuel-Navarrete D. Power, realism, and the ideal of human emancipation in a climate of change[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2010-01-01,1(6)