In search of climate politics / Matthew Paterson, University of Manchester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paterson, Matthew, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

In what ways is climate change political? This book addresses this key - but oddly neglected - question. It argues that in order to answer it we need to understand politics in a three-fold way: as a site of authoritative, public decision-making; as a question of power; and as a conflictual phenomenon. Recurring themes center on de- and re-politicization, and a tension between attempts to simplify climate change to a single problem and its intrinsic complexity. These dynamics are driven by processes of capital accumulation and their associated subjectivities. The book explores these arguments through an analysis of a specific city - Ottawa - which acts as a microcosm of these broader processes. It provides detailed analyses of conflicts over urban planning, transport, and attempts by city government and other institutions to address climate change. The book will be valuable for students and researches looking at the politics of climate change.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms

1 Introduction

1.1 Why Focus on a City? And on Ottawa?

1.2 Why We Need to Search for Climate Politics

1.3 How I Explore Climate Change As Political

2 In Search of Climate Politics

2.1 Politics in Existing Framings of Climate Change

2.1.1 System Adjustment and Maintenance Frames

2.1.2 Systemic Inequalities and Contestation Frames

2.1.3 System Transformation Frames

2.2 Thinking Politically about Climate Change

2.2.1 Conceptualizing Politics

2.2.2 Politics As Multidimensional

2.2.3 Depoliticization and Repoliticization

2.2.4 Tensions in the Politics of Climate Change: Purification vs. Complexity

2.2.5 Shaping Climate Change Action: Cultural Political Economy

2.3 A Summary

3 Making Climate Policy in the City of Ottawa

3.1 From the Toronto Conference to Amalgamation: Climate Leadership in Ottawa

3.2 Amalgamation and the Stalling of Climate Policy in Ottawa

3.3 Conclusions

4 Networked Governance and Carbon Accounting in Ottawa

4.1 The Partners for Climate Protection Programme and Municipal Climate Governance in Ottawa

4.2 The PCP and the City of Ottawa

4.3 Carbon Accounting beyond City Government: Carbon 613

4.4 Conclusions

5 Complete Streets and Its Discontents

5.1 Mobilizing for Complete Streets

5.2 'Three Extra Minutes': Conflicts over the Main Street Complete Street Project

5.2.1 Revisioning Old Ottawa East

5.2.2 Transforming the City's Reconstruction Project

5.2.3 Opposition to Main Street as a Complete Street

5.2.4 Community and Place in Old Ottawa East

5.3 Conclusions

6 Intensifying Conflicts: Agonism and the Politics of Urban Spatial Transformations

6.1 Introduction.

6.2 Density, Intensification, and Low Carbon Transitions

6.3 Studying Intensification in Ottawa

6.4 Political Economy: Intensification As Spatial Fix

6.5 Competing Narratives of Intensification

6.6 Heritage and Height: The 'Character of the Neighbourhood'

6.7 Ambivalence, Intensification, and Low Carbon Transitions

6.8 Conclusions

7 Mapping Climate Experimentation in Ottawa

7.1 The Patterns of Climate Governance in Ottawa

7.2 Public Initiatives on Energy Demand and Infrastructure

7.3 NGO Initiatives Using Information Sharing and Capacity Building

7.4 Private/Community Initiatives on Energy Supply

7.5 Conclusions

8 The University of Ottawa: Strategic Energy Management, Experimentation, and Repoliticization

8.1 Context

8.2 Setting Targets and Managing Progress

8.3 Experimental Initiatives

8.4 Participative Climate Governance

8.5 Fossil Fuel Divestment and University Politics

8.6 The Politics of Low Carbon Universities

8.7 Conclusions

9 Renewing Democratic Politics: The Ottawa Renewable Energy Cooperative

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Promoting Renewable Energy Cooperatives in Ontario and Ottawa

9.3 OREC: Origins and Current Projects

9.4 OREC's Business Model

9.5 OREC and the Remaking of Democratic Politics

9.5.1 Participation and Inclusion

9.5.2 Democratic Control and Accountability

9.5.3 Argumentative Practice and Deliberative Quality

9.6 Conclusions

10 Conclusions

10.1 System Change, Not Climate Change

10.2 Beyond Ottawa

10.3 In Search of Climate Politics

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Nov 2021).

ISBN:

9781108985673

110898567X

9781108982207

1108982204

9781108974912

1108974910

OCLC:

1493012820