| ID | 153736 |
| Title Proper | Aviation and climate change |
| Other Title Information | practising green governmentality across the North-South divide |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Lin, Weiqiang |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article seeks to re-understand climate change in terms of its constitutive state practices. Existing analyses tend to frame climate change as a security discourse, or as a manner of green governmentality normalising the uneven relations between the Global North and South, but seldom is the practical process realising climate change’s logics delineated. Using aviation as an example, this article traces how climate change, as discourse, contingently takes shape through three episodes in aviation’s environmental evolution: a) an initial period of conceptual experimentation and consolidation (1992–2005); b) a major policy break catalysed by the EU ETS that destabilised previous discursive formations (2005–2012); and c) diplomatic attempts to re-gain international consensus following the EU ETS’s extension to aviation (2012–present). These practices will be charted across numerous spaces, including supra-national forums, national governments, technical bodies, consulting agencies, and political summits. By elucidating this geopolitical praxis across the North-South divide, I demonstrate how climate change cannot simply be reduced to a rationality in green governmentality, but must be understood as an outcome of strategic practices among differently positioned states. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol. 22, No.1; 2017: p.129-150 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol: 22 No 1 |
| Key Words | Climate Change ; North - South Divide ; Green Governmentality |