Governing the Climate.

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Governing the Climate
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Foreword: Order! Order in the House!
Preface
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Introduction On Governmentality and Climate Change
	Introduction
	Climate Change, Politics and the Social Sciences
		Climate Politics and the International
		Reimagining Global Climate Politics
	New Engagements with Critical Perspectives: Governmentality and Beyond
		Making Climate Change Governmental
		Imagining Climate Change
		Advanced Liberal Climate Government
		The Conduct of Carbon Conduct
		Limitations and Frontiers
	Conclusion: A New Contribution
	References
Part I Governmentality, Critical Theory and Climate Change
	1 Bringing Governmentality to the Study of Global Climate Governance
		Introduction
		The Rise of Global Governance Studies
			Global Climate Governance Studies
		Governmentality Studies
			Towards an Analytics of Climate Government
		Conclusions
		References
	2 Experimenting on Climate Governmentality with Actor-Network Theory
		Towards an Actor-Network Theory of Climate Governance?
		Latour on Foucault: Reassembling Climatic Governmentalities?
		The Topology of Climate Governance: A Meshwork of Problematizations
		Trajectories of Climatic Problematization: A Few Empirical Illustrations
			First Problematization: IPCC as World Parliament of Experts
			Second Problematization: Transnational Carbon Markets
			Third Problematization: Urban Climatic Sustainability
		Conclusion: Towards Democratic Climate Experimentations?
		References
	3 Third Side of the Coin: Hegemony and Governmentality in Global Climate Politics
		Introduction
		Articulation: Rendering Forests as an Object of Governance
		Hegemony: REDD+ Becoming the Dominant Approach
		(De)Politicization: The Political Effects of REDD+
		Conclusion
		References
	4 The Limits of Climate Governmentality
		Introduction
		Eco-Governmentality: Statism, Neoliberalism and Liberal Violence
		Global Climate Governmentality
		Agency and Climate Governmentality
		The Ethics of Climate Governmentality
		Conclusion
		References
Part II Cases of Climate Government: Theorizing Practice
	5 Neuroliberal Climatic Governmentalities
		Introduction: Thinking Globally, Acting Neurologically
		Origins – Bounded Rationality and the (Partial) Death of Homo Economicus
		Connections – Barriers to Governing Climate Conducts
		Interpretations – The Neurotic Citizen and the Marketization of Existence
		Alternatives – Climate Conducts and Counter Conducts
		Conclusions
		References
	6 Making Carbon Calculations
		Introduction
		Theoretical Tools for Analysing Carbon Policy and Calculations
		Making Generic Calculative Devices
		Making Individual Calculations
		Benchmarking Calculations
		Offsetting Calculations
		Calculating for Climate Change – Practical and Analytical Considerations
		Acknowledgements
		References
	7 Smart Meters and the Governance of Energy Use in the Household
		Introduction
		The Messy Actualities of Carbon Governmentality
		The Visible Energy Trial
		Carbon as a Weak Rationality of Government
		Carbon-Calculating Individuals?
		Resistance, Rejection and Retraction
		Conclusions
		References
	8 Translation Loops and Shifting Rationalities of Transnational Bioenergy Governance
		Introduction
		Governmental Rationalities and Market Generation
		Design and Operationalization of EU BEG
		Materializing BEG
		Contesting the Results
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		References
	9 Governing Mobile Species in a Climate-Changed World
		Introduction
		Moving Species, Changing World
		Constituting a Global Biodiversity Polity through Calculative Practices
		A New Governable Domain: Making Species into Objects of Governance
		An Example of a National Strategy in a Context of Global Governance
		Concluding Remarks: Governing Complex Spaces
		References
	10 Measuring Forest Carbon
		Introduction
		A Brief History of Forests in International Climate Change Policy
		Governmentality – Understanding the Consensus around Forest Carbon ‘Measurement, Reporting and Verification’
		The Discourse of Forest Carbon MRV
		The Techniques and Practices of Forest Carbon MRV: Part I – Remote Sensing Science
		The Techniques and Practices of Forest Carbon MRV: Part II – Standards
		Summary and Conclusions
		References
	11 Climate Security as Governmentality: From Precaution to Preparedness
		Introduction
		Other Approaches to Climate Security
		Governmentality Studies: From a Categorical to a Topological Analysis
			Categorical Analysis: Modes of Power
			Topological Analysis: Redeployments of Techniques of Different Governmentalities
		Shifting Topologies of Climate Security: From Tolerable Levels of Climate Change to Climate Apocalypse
			Tolerable Levels of Climate Change
			Climate Apocalypse
		The Added Value of a Topological Governmentality Analysis Compared to Other Approaches
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
Part III Future Directions
	12 The Rise and Fall of the Global Climate Polity
		Introduction
		Governmental Techniques and the Bigger Picture
		What is a Global Climate Polity?
		How Did a Global Climate Polity Emerge?
		Beyond the Global Climate Polity?
		References
	13 Climate Change Multiple
		Introduction
		Climate Change Security
		Individualization
		Economic Agenda
		Conclusions
		References
	Conclusion Towards a Critical Social Science of Climate Change?
		Introduction
		Ordering the Social (and Natural) World
		Rationality
		Power
		Politics
		A New Agenda?
		References
Index