Climate Change as Experience of Affect

Roelvink, Gerda; Zolkos, Magdalena

doi:10.1080/0969725x.2011.641344

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“…What is instead needed she states, is to 'articulate a broader concept of agency, both human and otherwise, and to develop explanations that focus on associations and relationships rather than separations' (Head 2008, 373). Similarly, Roelvink and Zolkos (2011) argue that 'there is a need to refigure the concept of the human subject within the post-humanist paradigm emerging in both the social sciences and theoretical humanities' (Roelvink and Zolkos 2011, 44). They further suggest that … a bounded model of human subjectivity and rationality is inadequate for the task of connecting the emergence of progressive ecological practices with the often very personal, mournful and highly emotional experience of witnessing environmental degradation.…”

Section: Decentring the Humanmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…These have emerged from critical engagements with prevailing knowledges on climate change, but do also belong to a literature that is seeking new entrances -empirical and theoretical -to studies of environmental crises and their mitigation (e.g. Demeritt 2001Demeritt , 2006Bingham and Hinchliffe 2008;Head 2008;Hulme 2008Hulme , 2009Hulme , 2010Jasanoff 2010;Head and Gibson 2012;Latour 2004Latour , 2011Wynne 2010;Ganguly and Jenkins 2011;Roelvink and Zolkos 2011;Lorimer 2012;Mahony 2013). As in other current engagements with human-nature relations, the long-standing natureculture dualism in Western sciences is here being challenged and, alongside this, the status of human agency.…”

Section: Decentring the Humanmentioning

confidence: 98%

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On working relations with the citizen

Huse

2015

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

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Why do people resist acting upon climate change? The article approaches this muchdebated question through a study of the failed attempt to implement congestion charging in Tromsø, Norway. Taking this event as its starting-point, the article sets out to examine how climate change is rendered governable and how this in turn affords the citizen rather limited political agency. Arguing that this in itself created resistance towards the congestion charging scheme, the article moves to look at how a specific object sought governed through -the car -can inform ideas of the citizen and its agentic capacities. It is here argued that whilst the concept of relational agency has sensitized political analysis towards the doings of non-human entities, the orientation towards symmetrical accounts of agency has also left more or less unexplored what it is that constitutes the subject. There is, I thus suggest, a need to distinguish between symmetry and sameness and, further, to find ways of teasing out difference that does not simultaneously re/produce asymmetries. Approaching this by way of object multiplicity and affordances, the article concludes with a discussion of how subjectivities can be understood as a 'gathering' of relations and encounters that constantly re-enact the subject. Arguing that this represents a form of 'compression' through which potentials of 'the subject multiple' are made more proximate and thus also concentrated, the article suggests that rather than to work through perceived mechanisms of the subject, authorities should instead work with it.

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Section: Decentring the Humanmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Decentring the Humanmentioning

confidence: 98%

On working relations with the citizen

Huse

2015

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

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“…One means of doing so is to develop a greater appreciation for the embodied, affective and emotional dimensions of the experience of climate change (Head et al . ; Roelvink and Zolkos ; Singh ). The overall challenge is to effectively account for, and in so doing to valorize and legitimate, the diverse range of climate knowledges, practices and experiences, and to recognise that what climate change means emerges through the embodied, practical engagements that people have with their environments (Johnson ; Watson and Huntington ; Bawaka Country et al .…”

Section: For a Hybrid Epistemology: Expanding Climate Perception And mentioning

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Researching the hybrid geographies of climate change: reflections from the field

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2015

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This special section grew out of a series of sessions on 'Mixed methods and hybrid epistemologies' at the Association of American Geographers annual meetings in 2013 and 2014. The five papers that comprise it each examine climate change as a mixed or hybrid entity, and consider some of the theoretical and methodological tensions associated with contemporary climate change research. In so doing, the authors reflect on the challenges of field-based observation and measurement, and they draw on a rich array of conceptual resources in attempting to capture climate's multidimensional character. In this brief introduction, I consider the contributions of the papers in the context of three areas of climate change scholarship: climate knowledge, ontologies of climate and the methodologies of climate change research. Taken as a whole, the collection suggests the value of a methodological and epistemological pluralism, one capable of registering the hybrid character of climate change and coping with the fact that multiple measurements, understandings and enactments of climate may be equally valid.

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“…In this issue we aim to bring questions of the subject and inter-subjectivity to the forefront of affective scholarship. Our central motivation here comes from working on climate change action and in particular our exploration of the affective experiences of environmental degradation that enable subjects to act (see Roelvink and Zolkos, 2011). What interests us in particular is action as guided by a subject's ethical sensitivity to others.…”

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