Description:
Drawing on rigorous analysis of the global climate debate and participant analysis of COP21, this volume will offer readers an original account of the current state of play in the field of global climate governance. It will build upon a collaborative research project on COP21 carried out by a multidisciplinary team of twenty academics.
Review Quotes:
"Aykut, Foyer and Morena have produced a unique volume of rich case studies on the performative function of COP21 in Paris. It drives forward our understanding, in new and unexpected ways, of how the idea of climate change alters political, social and cultural worlds, just as importantly as a changing physical climate is altering the material world. These 200 pages are an important complement to the 3000 pages of the last IPCC report." - Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate and Culture, King's College London, UK
"Globalising the Climate brings together ten fascinating and original takes on key under-discussed elements of the climate change issue and the 2015 Paris negotiations in particular. The volume also brings central Francophone debates to English language readers--an overdue and much-needed contribution." - J. Timmons Roberts, Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology, Brown University, USA
"Only the ethnographic method could give us such a remarkable view of what is arguably the most important diplomatic event since the birth of the United Nations. The authors' descriptions give a vivid understanding of the conundrum of climate diplomacy: it is supposed to cover the whole globe and yet it reduces the globe to a tiny set of documents and issues inside small closed rooms and local events. This is political anthropology at its best." - Bruno Latour, Professor, Sciences Po Paris, France
"In combining critical analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, Globalising the Climate provides the reader with unique insights into climate governance in-the-making and valuable examinations of the many ways in which the warming climate transforms other global debates. Thought-provoking and timely." - Oliver Geden, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin, Germany