Revisiting the urban politics of climate change
In: Environmental politics, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 136-154
ISSN: 0964-4016
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In: Environmental politics, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 136-154
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 37, Heft 6, S. 1934-1948
ISSN: 0309-1317
Climate change governance is increasingly being conducted through urban climate change experiments, purposive interventions that seek to reconfigure urban sociotechnical systems to achieve low-carbon and resilient cities. In examining how experiments take effect, we suggest that we need to understand not only how they are made and assembled, but also how they are maintained within specific urban contexts. Drawing on literatures from urban political ecology and the specific debate on urban repair and maintenance, this article examines maintenance in two case studies of climate change experiments in housing in Bangalore (India) and Monterrey (Mexico). We find that maintenance is a crucial process through which not only urban obduracy is preserved, but also the novel and innovative character of the experiment is asserted and reproduced. The process of 'maintaining' experiments is a precarious one, which requires a continuous external input in terms of remaking the experiment materially and discursively. This process causes further reconfigurations beyond the experiment, changing the patterns of responsibility attribution and acceptability that configure the urban fabric.
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In: Global environmental politics, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 1-10
ISSN: 1536-0091
In: Global environmental politics, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 1-144
ISSN: 1526-3800
World Affairs Online
In: Global governance: a review of multilateralism and international organizations, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 141-160
ISSN: 1942-6720
In: Global governance: a review of multilateralism and international organizations, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 141-159
ISSN: 2468-0958, 1075-2846
World Affairs Online
In: Environmental politics, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 42-63
ISSN: 1743-8934
In: International studies quarterly: the journal of the International Studies Association, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 471-493
ISSN: 1468-2478
In: International studies quarterly: the journal of the International Studies Association, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 471-494
ISSN: 0020-8833, 1079-1760
In: Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources; Perspectives on Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics, Ethics, S. 189-213
In: Just sustainabilties: policy, planning, and practice
World Affairs Online
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 132, S. 119-130
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: Global environmental politics, Band 22, Heft 3, S. 81-103
ISSN: 1536-0091
World Affairs Online