Dancing to the Rhythms of the Fossil Fuel Landscape: Landscape Inertia and the Temporal Limits to Market-Based Climate Policy

Carton, Wim

doi:10.1111/anti.12262

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“…Again, the indefatigable efforts by fossil fuel interests to undermine or weaken possible climate policy are obvious examples here and need no elaboration, though temporal deferral operates in more subtle ways as well. As I have argued elsewhere, market mechanisms such as carbon trading in many ways fulfil the same function (Carton 2016(Carton , 2017. While this temporarily fixes the regulatory problem, it does little to solve the underlying challenge posed by increasing greenhouse gas emissions.…”

Section: Theorising a Spatiotemporal Fix To Climate Changementioning

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“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay

Carton

2019

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Models suggest that climate change mitigation now depends on negative emissions, i.e. the large‐scale removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This assumption has been criticised in the climate policy literature for being unfeasible and unjust. This article asks how critical scholars can make sense of, and contribute to these debates. It suggests that negative emissions can be conceived of as a spatiotemporal fix that promises to defer the devaluation of fixed capital. But the negative emissions example also challenges us to broaden our conception of how the socioecological contradictions of capitalism can be “fixed”. I outline three ways in which it does this by highlighting the significance of a predominantly temporal fix, the role of hegemonic, sociopolitical interventions involving multiple actors, and the possibility of safeguarding existing production processes. I conclude that spatiotemporal fixes to climate change should be seen as part of a wider political economy of delay in devaluing carbon‐intensive accumulation processes.

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Section: Theorising a Spatiotemporal Fix To Climate Changementioning

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“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay

Carton

2019

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“…Nature-society geographers have engaged both Marxist-inspired political economy and poststructuralism theories/concepts to (separately) evaluate how energy projects are assembled (Bouzarovski et al, 2015;Yenneti, Day, & Golubchikov, 2016), financed (Baker, 2015;Hall, Foxon, & Bolton, 2016;Knuth, 2018;Merme et al, 2014;Newell & Phillips, 2016;Schmidt & Matthews, 2018), constructed, and discursively framed (Hommes, Boelens, & Maat, 2016;Kuchler & Bridge, 2018) and how these practices impact processes such as governance (McCarthy, 2015;Muinzer & Ellis, 2017) and urbanization (Bulkeley, McGuirk, & Dowling, 2016;Dowling, McGuirk, & Maalsen, 2018 (Baka, 2017a;Rignall, 2016;Yenneti et al, 2016). In contrast, work on energy systems in the Global North have largely focused on the political economic logics of developing and operating energy and emissions trading markets (Bridge & Bradshaw, 2017;Carton, 2017;Kama, 2014). Nature-society geographers have also studied imaginaries of energy futures/transitions and how imaginaries intersect with political economy (Angel, 2017;Burnham, Eaton, Selfa, Hinrichs, & Feldpausch-Parker, 2017;Hommes et al, 2016;Kuchler, 2017).…”

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The evolving borderland of energy geographies

Baka

Vaishnava

2020

Geography Compass

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Energy geographers have characterized energy as a borderland topic because of its ability to straddle and interconnect different geographic concepts and debates. In this review, we evaluate how the borderland of energy geographies has been emerging in recent years by analyzing scholarship on energy published in top geography journals and a leading energy studies journal, Energy Research & Social Science. In part 1 of our review, we evaluate how the borderland of energy geographies is evolving by mapping the geographic range of empirical studies, the processes and types of energy systems being researched and the key geographic concepts/theories engaged across the four main sub‐fields of geography. We find that energy geographies scholarship has primarily centered on the Global North, remains focused on the extractive and production phase of energy development and is evolving across and within three of the four sub‐fields of geography. Energy transitions, governance, justice, space, and landscape are key topics and concepts examined. Notable underrepresentations include a relative lack of energy geographies scholarship within physical geography, as well as limited studies that engage geographic concepts to study the transportation sector, unconventional energy development and the food‐energy‐water nexus. In part 2, we identify three broad research themes to expand the frontier of energy geographies: (a) geographies of energy knowledge production, particularly indigenous knowledge; (b) materializing energy, especially through engaging political‐industrial ecology; and (c) advancing geographic thought by critically assessing how studying energy advances/challenges/transforms core geographic concepts and debates. Collectively, our review demonstrates that energy geographies have established firm footing within and across geography. Deepening engagement with emerging trends elsewhere in geography and the social sciences will not only help to better conceptualize what a geographic perspective on energy means but will also help to make clearer sense of the rapid economic, social, environmental, and political transformations currently underway within the global energy system.

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“…The key political question today centers on the capacities of democratic states or alternative forms of ‘planetary sovereignty’ to address the crises engendered by carbon-based life (Wainwright and Mann, 2013, 2015). It is tempting to conclude that carbonized democracy and the embeddedness of the ‘fossil fuel landscape’ prevent political constructions of a post-carbon future (see Carton, 2017). Beuret (2017) explores how the global framing of climate change forecloses a political solution through national states.…”

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Resource geography II: What makes resources political?

Huber¹

2018

Progress in Human Geography

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What makes resources political? We often imagine that politics is something done to resources (i.e. larger contestations over access to and control over resources). In this second “progress report”, I question whether resource politics is simply about fighting over stuff. How does the materiality of resources themselves shape broader conceptions of “the political” in general? I highlight the role of resources in shaping three central meanings of the political or politics. First, the commonsense ideology of politics as electoral contests over political power. Second, the state – as the sphere of “the political” – is constructed as a geographical entity based on a specific form of territoriality. Third, the nation-state reflects a complex political duality: both an institutional state apparatus and a cultural imaginary of shared nationhood. I conclude with some thoughts on the need to expand the terrain of the political in resource geography.

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Dancing to the Rhythms of the Fossil Fuel Landscape: Landscape Inertia and the Temporal Limits to Market-Based Climate Policy

Cited by 22 publications

References 44 publications

“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay

“Fixing” Climate Change by Mortgaging the Future: Negative Emissions, Spatiotemporal Fixes, and the Political Economy of Delay

The evolving borderland of energy geographies

Resource geography II: What makes resources political?

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