Reaction, Resilience, and the Trumpist Behemoth: Environmental Risk Management from “Hoax” to Technique of Domination

Sparke, Matthew; Bessner, Daniel

doi:10.1080/24694452.2018.1549469

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“…Beyond this kind of variegation, the US also illustrates how illiberalism in national governance can transform neoliberal resilience altogether. Even before the pandemic, President Trump's xenophobic ultranationalism, anti-immigrant border-building and denial of climate change science were replacing the resilience plans of the Obama years and Washington Consensus institutions with a deeply reactionary and authoritarian approach of government by (rather than of) crisis (Sparke & Bessner, 2019). It is the chaos created by this same neo-illiberal approach that has now contributed to such disastrous damage to public health resilience in America and, as a result, to a non-fake epidemiology of infection that has proved too fast and too deadly to dissemble as a "hoax".…”

Section: Geographies Of Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualising coronavirus geographically

Sparke

Anguelov

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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This editorial introduces a special virtual issue aimed at providing online access to articles that can contribute to the work of coming to geographical terms with the COVID-19 pandemic. It outlines seven sub-themes of enquiry and analysis that are especially useful for contextualising coronavirus geographically. These are explored in turn as geographies of: (1) infection, (2) vulnerability, (3) resilience, (4) blame, (5) immunisation, (6) interdependence, and (7) care. In each case, connections are made between publications that are included in the special virtual issue and other more recent writings related specifically to COVID-19. In an effort to make these connections as useful as possible to geographers who have been drafted into online teaching in and about the pandemic, hyperlinks are used throughout to highlight additional online resources and reports.

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Section: Geographies Of Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualising coronavirus geographically

Sparke

Anguelov

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…While resilience , climate change , sustainability , and sustainable development are often used interchangeably to suit stakeholder needs, they carry important consequences for subsequent action and prioritization (Jaskulsky & Besel, 2013; Schuldt, 2016; Schuldt & Roh, 2014). Resilience, for instance, is intrinsically reactionary in nature, which can make it a “code word for managing environmental crises selectively and preferentially” (Sparke & Bessner, 2019, p. 535). In a policy context, sustainability and sustainable development are both often defined by the triple bottom line of environmental, social, and economic values (Marchese et al, 2018).…”

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Climate change acknowledgment to promote sustainable development: A critical discourse analysis of local action plans in coastal Florida

Tenali

McManus

2022

Sustainable Development

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Globally, the consequences of climate change have rapidly necessitated local government action to mitigate and adapt to rising sea levels, increased storm frequency, and higher temperatures. Acknowledgement of underlying climate issues, however, varies widely across regions and towns. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), this paper evaluates the climate change acknowledgment of five municipality sustainability action plans (SAP) in coastal Florida and the broader implications for sustainable development. Public pressure, environmental champions, and recent storm events causing infrastructure damage were identified as key factors underpinning coastal climate change acknowledgement. Notably, the plans that admitted the anthropogenic causes of climate change were more optimistic and action focused. By emphasizing local mitigation efforts and opportunities, they were more empowering than those that treated climate threats as inevitable external circumstances. Anthropogenic climate change acknowledgment is thus a powerful tool for local governments to catalyze action when developing their sustainability goals and plans.

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“…A contradictory balance between authoritarian control and liberal market-based freedoms is common in the latest global turn to populism. In the United States, for example, the Trump regime has maintained commitments to the market and neoliberal governance (invoking both as necessary components of "freedom") while rearticulating and reterritorializing these policies in nationalistic terms (24). The Trump administration has resisted what it sees as Obama-era resilience (disaster preparation, climate change action, sustainability) and instead protects specific racial and class-defined communities and managers of capital.…”

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Contemporary Populism and the Environment

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Wolford

Borras³

2022

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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This review engages with literature on authoritarian populism, focusing specifically on its relationship to the environment. We analyze hybrid combinations of authoritarianism and populism to explore three themes from the literature: environmental governance, social and political representations of nature, and resistance. In the environmental governance section, we analyze how governments have increasingly resorted to populist politics to expand extractivism; certain commodities with national security implications have become key commodities to be protected; and borders, frontiers, and zones of inclusion/exclusion have become flash points. In the social and political representations of nature section, we analyze settler colonialism and sacrifice zones as organizing principles for relations with the environment. In our final section on resistance, we review literature highlighting pushback to authoritarian populism from peasant, indigenous, and worker movements. Variants of populism and authoritarianism are likely to persist amid increasing competition over resources as components of responses to environmental and climate crisis. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 47 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Reaction, Resilience, and the Trumpist Behemoth: Environmental Risk Management from “Hoax” to Technique of Domination

Cited by 14 publications

References 24 publications

Contextualising coronavirus geographically

Contextualising coronavirus geographically

Climate change acknowledgment to promote sustainable development: A critical discourse analysis of local action plans in coastal Florida

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