The fantasmatic narrative of ‘sustainable development’. A political analysis of the 2030 Global Development Agenda

Tellería, Juan; Garcia-Arias, Jorge

doi:10.1177/23996544211018214

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“…Beyond that, differences for instance in socioeconomic status do not feature. This demonstrates the policies' ambition to mask divisions and establish, consolidate and depict German society as a seemingly homogenous group, with no internal antagonisms (see Telleria and Garcia-Arias, 2021 for similar rhetorical mechanisms in the 2030 Agenda). Interestingly, the beatific aspect of the leisurely life serves both as a prelude to the horrific dimension, in that it shows what is at stake, and it shows the good life German's will have after adapting to climate change in accordance with the government's plans.…”

Section: Scientificity As the Saviour: Fantasies Of Objectivity And R...mentioning

confidence: 83%

“…A number of studies have explored the fantasmatic support structures of public and policy discourses. These have focused on the health and age care sector (Fotaki, 2010; West, 2011), on education policy (Clarke, 2015), foreign policy (Eberle, 2016), transport planning (Griggs and Howarth, 2013), urban, regional and spatial planning (Gunder, 2014; Gunder and Hillier, 2009; Sjöstedt Landén et al, 2017) and the 2030 Global Development Agenda (Telleria and Garcia-Arias, 2021). These studies have often tended to use material that is ‘disproportionally charged’ or invested with affect, such as news media discussions (Chang and Glynos, 2011; Eberle, 2016; Sjöstedt Landén et al, 2017), sheer ‘unrealistic’ planning visions (Gunder, 2014) or ‘polemic’ speeches of politicians (Bloom, 2016).…”

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Exploring the affective dimension of climate adaptation discourse: Political fantasies in German adaptation policy

Remling

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Critical adaptation research has documented how climate change adaptation responses largely tend to maintain rather than change the status quo. Building and expanding on these literatures, this article draws on poststructuralist discourse theory, specifically its notion of political fantasy, to explore further how these prevalent techno-managerial approaches to adaptation operate and what it might be that makes them seem appealing. Based on an exploratory, qualitative analysis of how affect (emotions) and fantasy are at play in the German government discourse on adaptation, the article discerns four specific forms that fantasy takes in official documents: (1) fantasies of control and preparedness, (2) fantasies of objectivity and reason, (3) fantasies of a shared sense of place, and (4) fantasies about ‘the good life’. These support the common narrative for how to adapt to climate change in the German context – primarily in a way that does not challenge or change the social order. The findings show that German adaptation policy is sustained and legitimised by fantasmatic elements that seek to speak to a-rational desires and provide important affective anchor points for collective identification, especially those evoking a shared sense of place. In other words, the German adaptation policy discourse is not constructed only at the level of rational argumentation, but very much so on the level of affect. In demonstrating this, the article makes the case for placing political fantasy into the analytical and theoretical vocabulary within critical adaptation research.

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Section: Scientificity As the Saviour: Fantasies Of Objectivity And R...mentioning

confidence: 83%

Section: Methodological Strategy and Empirical Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the affective dimension of climate adaptation discourse: Political fantasies in German adaptation policy

Remling

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…The two sections of the Agenda as described above contain statements that, if not accompanied by the assumption of responsibility and actual plans of action, risk remaining empty, rhetorical statements of principle-also defined by the doctrine of the 'fantasmatic narrative' 37 or 'unsustainable lightness'. 38 Using a critical lens, we will illustrate how the legal sciences, and in particular the administrative law on the environment, can offer tools for concrete implementation strategies to give substance to the declarations and objectives of the Agenda.…”

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The New Horizons of Law and Science through the Lens of 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda: Some Emerging Issues

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Murray

2023

EPL

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The complex sustainability challenges of the 21st century need to be addressed through integrated interdisciplinary approaches, combining science, law, and ethics with concrete, timely, and effective solutions. This study offers a legal framework and a case study to the needs posited by the Agenda 2030 on sustainable development. Starting from an analysis of the first part of the Agenda, the article unfolds by exploring the possibility of defining environmental compliance through environmental responsibility, environmental duties, and the virtuous case of agroecology. The case study focuses on a climate-smart practice applied to the sea and delves into the environmental, nutritional, and health benefits of the marine biomass from Northern Norway. The theoretical framework and the case study will emphasize the importance of systemic approaches to sustainability for putting integral ecology models into action.

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“…Given significant critiques of sustainable development and its effects on Indigenous peoples and peoples of the Global South – including thinkers Harmony with Nature cites (e.g., Escobar, 2012) – the continued reaffirmation of Rio in 1992, Johannesburg in 2002, Rio+20 in 2012, and the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals is a stark contrast. The 2016 preamble (A/RES/71/232) adds to this trend by aligning Harmony with Nature to the SDGs and to UN commitments on international financing agreed to in Addis Ababa in 2015, the latter of which has been criticised for privatising aid and perpetuating inequality (Telleria & Garcia‐Arias, 2021). Another stark contrast for Harmony with Nature is that every December's resolution after 2015 references the “people‐centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals” without reference to the non‐anthropocentric, Earth‐centred impulse of Earth jurisprudence.…”

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Of kin and system: Rights of nature and the UN search for Earth jurisprudence

Schmidt

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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Since 2009, the United Nations programme on Harmony with Nature has sought a new philosophy of global environmental governance known as Earth jurisprudence. This paper examines how Harmony with Nature has advanced Earth jurisprudence to unite Indigenous legal traditions, rights of nature, and mounting evidence from Earth system science regarding anthropogenic forcing on the planet. It does so through a policy analysis of annual UN reports, resolutions, and dialogues with international experts. Situating Harmony with Nature in the broader intellectual heritage of Earth jurisprudence and contemporary efforts to address anthropogenic forcing on the Earth system in the Anthropocene, I argue that Harmony with Nature operates at the juncture of two powerful ways of ordering relations, knowledge, and obligation: kin and system. The critical analysis shows how a new geography of global environmental governance has been produced within the constraints of the UN precisely by scaling Indigenous kinship to the planetary diagnoses made by system‐based planetary sciences. The resulting form of Earth jurisprudence in Harmony with Nature holds important, cautionary lessons both for understanding how Indigenous legal traditions are made to comport with UN sustainable development programmes and for contemporary efforts to transform governance to meet the pressing demands of global environmental change.

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The fantasmatic narrative of ‘sustainable development’. A political analysis of the 2030 Global Development Agenda

Cited by 15 publications

References 45 publications

Exploring the affective dimension of climate adaptation discourse: Political fantasies in German adaptation policy

Exploring the affective dimension of climate adaptation discourse: Political fantasies in German adaptation policy

The New Horizons of Law and Science through the Lens of 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda: Some Emerging Issues

Of kin and system: Rights of nature and the UN search for Earth jurisprudence

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