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Crisis, constitutionalism and the geographies of belonging: Indian eco-politics in the Anthropocene / Tella, Ramya K

Tella, Ramya K	Journal Article
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The Anthropocene – as a geological and cultural epoch – brings with it new modes of articulating environmental crisis and citizenship for peoples in India. This essay illustrates how space, scale and identity can be located within contemporary climate political imaginations through the normative canvas of the Indian Constitution. It argues that by thinking about climate change as a collection of dualisms – past/present, near/faraway, futures/futurelessness – Indian vocabularies of constitutionalism can inform authoritative understandings of crisis and citizenship. The article makes use of empirical material collected between 2016–17 for the author's doctoral research. It argues that Indian climate change elites characterize crisis in distinctive ways that draw attention to the symbolic and material implications of interrogating the shifting geographies of belonging in India. It shows how they make use of a framework of constitutionalism that is simultaneously attentive to the semantics of both planetary and subaltern thinking in the Anthropocene.

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Indian Constitution ; Eco - Politics ; Climate Crisis ; Anthropocene

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Rational irrationality and simulation in environmental politics: the example of climate change / Humphrey, Mathew

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Do western publics make 'demands' for environmental policy that they have no desire to see enacted? The thesis that they do has been put forward recently by advocates of the 'post-ecologist' paradigm such as Ingolfur Blühdorn. Taking the example of climate change, this article assesses survey results that provide indicative evidence that such 'simulative' demands may exist. I suggest that such demands are, however, best explained through conceptual tools available from game-theoretic and rational-actor models of political behaviour, in particular rational ignorance and rational irrationality, rather than with the societal-level accounts preferred by Bluhdorn and others.

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Climate Change ; Environmental politics ; Eco - Politics

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