Rancière and Contemporary Political Problems

Valentine, Jeremy

doi:10.3366/para.2005.28.1.46

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“…Rancière's notion of the political is characterized in terms of division, conflict and polemic (Valentine, 2005). Therefore, ‘democracy always works against the pacification of social disruption, against the management of consensus and “stability” .…”

Section: Democracy's Location: the Return Of The Polismentioning

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The Antinomies of the Postpolitical City: In Search of a Democratic Politics of Environmental Production

Swyngedouw

2009

Int J Urban Regional Res

675

592

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The end of the socialist alternative, then, did not signify any renewal of democratic debate. Instead, it signified the reduction of democratic life to the management of local consequences of global economic necessity. The latter, in fact, was posited as a common condition which I am grateful for comments of and discussions with my colleagues in the School of Environment and Development at Manchester University, in particular

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Section: Democracy's Location: the Return Of The Polismentioning

confidence: 99%

The Antinomies of the Postpolitical City: In Search of a Democratic Politics of Environmental Production

Swyngedouw

2009

Int J Urban Regional Res

675

592

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“…Although there is debate as to what constitutes both the political and the post-political (Valentine 2005), points of agreement provide a useful lens through which to view the politics of climate change. The postpolitical context has emerged from the seeming exhaustion of all political models besides liberal capitalism, producing a condition in which antagonistic politics is being replaced by consensual governance (Crouch 2004, Badiou 2005, Laclau 2005, Rancière 2007, Zizek 1999.…”

Section: Climate Action and (Post-)politicsmentioning

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Science and ethics in the post-political era: strategies within the Camp for Climate Action

Schlembach

Lear

Bowman

2012

Environmental Politics

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Despite a peak in activism against climate change in the UK, new environmental direct action networks have not yet received much academic attention. This article takes as a case study perhaps the most prominent of such networks -the Camp for Climate Action -which held several high-profile protest events between 2006 and 2011. Using a theoretical framework which understands society as being distinctly 'post-political' in character, we ask questions about the knowledge claims that form the foundations of radical environmental politics. Drawing on published statements and press releases, as well as from our insights as active participants in the Camp, we analyse the strategy of environmental protest where climate change has become its focus. The Camp for Climate Action was a contested political arena. We argue that this contestation existed over the Camp's strategy in the context of a 'scientised', 'post-political' politics which operated within an ethical framework that prescribed individual responsibility as the primary basis for action.

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“…The ' post-political' is not used to connote the end of politics per se; the formal institutions of government (particularly in the global North) remain important sites of power, political parties continue to be active and elections are held at regular intervals. Post-political theorists (Valentine 2005) argue that the space of the political is contracting in the face of the hegemonic grip that neo-liberal ideas have over public affairs (Catney and Doyle 2011b). The political realm is increasingly limited to managerial concerns over 'what works' (as if these decisions were not themselves 'political') than with the clash of competing alternative principles of social and economic order.…”

Section: Sustainable Development Climate Change and The Postpoliticsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Climate Terror

Chaturvedi¹,

Doyle²

2015

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Rancière and Contemporary Political Problems

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

The Antinomies of the Postpolitical City: In Search of a Democratic Politics of Environmental Production

The Antinomies of the Postpolitical City: In Search of a Democratic Politics of Environmental Production

Science and ethics in the post-political era: strategies within the Camp for Climate Action

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