In defence of civilisation: Terrorism and environmental politics in the 21st century

Welsh, Ian

doi:10.1080/09644010701211981

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“…20. Much of the recent debate on the securitisation of environmental issues (e.g., Dalby, 2009;Deudney, 2006;Floyd, 2008;Schlosberg & Rinfret, 2008;Trombetta, 2008) and on ecoterrorism (e.g., Vanderheiden, 2005Vanderheiden, , 2008Welsh, 2007) can productively be interpreted along these lines. 21.…”

Section: Sustainability Research and The Governance Of Unsustainabilitymentioning

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The Politics of Unsustainability: COP15, Post-Ecologism, and the Ecological Paradox

Blühdorn

2011

Organization & Environment

112

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More spectacularly than ever before, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Fifteenth Session of the Conference of the Parties (UNFCCC COP15) summit in Copenhagen in December 2009 exposed the limitations of established approaches to, and institutional arrangements for, international climate and environmental politics. It illustrated the paradoxical simultaneity of, on one hand, the wide acceptance that to mitigate climate change and achieve sustainability rich consumer societies, in particular, need to radically change their established values, lifestyles, and social practices, and on the other, a profound inability and unwillingness to implement such change. Conceptualising the form of ecopolitics on display (not only) in Copenhagen as the “politics of unsustainability,” this article looks for explanations for the apparent impasse in contemporary ecopolitics and explores the practices that help advanced modern consumer societies to cope with the paradox of wanting to sustain the unsustainable. Adopting a social—theoretical approach rooted in the European tradition, the article focuses on one particular explanatory factor that in the prevalent context of environmental depoliticisation is receiving too little attention: the sociocultural norms underpinning all ecopolitics.

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The Politics of Unsustainability: COP15, Post-Ecologism, and the Ecological Paradox

Blühdorn

2011

Organization & Environment

112

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“…One of the most documented attempts has been the ratification of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. Passed primarily to establish the Serious Organised Crime Agency (for an overview, see Segell 2007), a Statutory Instrument of the 2005 act also prohibits unlicensed protests around Parliament within the radius of one kilometre (Welsh 2007, 367). Moreover, these restrictions on protest extend far beyond Parliament across the Thames to areas not populated by government buildings.…”

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Public Spaces of Dissent

Roberts

2008

Sociology Compass

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This article looks at some recent developments in the relationship between public space and dissent. The article does this by firstly distinguishing between dissent and resistance. Dissent is based broadly around disagreements between individuals in particular groups and contexts against a perceived grievance of some sort. As a result dissent can arise in a variety of contexts, especially within everyday life, popular culture, and with small acts of defiance against frustrations one experiences. These acts can also assume more overtly political modes in the form of resistance as when people demonstrate in the streets. The distinction is therefore useful because it helps us understand how the state and other governance mechanisms adopt policies and strategies to pre‐empt dissent and thereby prevent dissent from spilling over into resistance located in particular places. The article will examine how the state and governance have changed the way in which they pre‐empt the formation of spaces of dissent in order to effectively regulate them in the pre‐ and post‐9/11 climate. Taking examples from the USA and the UK, the paper explores these points through global social movements, law and dissent, planning and designing dissent, and the surveillance of dissent.

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Human rights and genomics: science, genomics and social movements at the 2004 London Social Forum

Welsh

Plows

Evans

2007

New Genetics and Society

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In defence of civilisation: Terrorism and environmental politics in the 21st century

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

The Politics of Unsustainability: COP15, Post-Ecologism, and the Ecological Paradox

The Politics of Unsustainability: COP15, Post-Ecologism, and the Ecological Paradox

Public Spaces of Dissent

Human rights and genomics: science, genomics and social movements at the 2004 London Social Forum

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