Whose system, what change? A critical political economy approach to the UK climate movement

Berglund, Oscar; Bailey, David

doi:10.1080/09644016.2022.2156179

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“…The entrenched nature of many of these systems is also producing intersectional awareness of how social and environmental injustices are co‐constituted and reinforced (Sultana, 2022). Consequently, this is also a time of growing protest and social movements that articulate the connection between capitalism, colonialism and climate change, and which call for transformational change across multiple systems of politics, economics, governance and social organisation (Berglund & Bailey, 2021; Simon et al, 2020; Thiri et al, 2022).…”

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Responding to climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand: Universities, neoliberalism and narratives of change

Lomas,

Bond

2024

N Z Geog

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This article investigates how the eight universities in Aotearoa New Zealand are responding to climate change. It employs a mixed methods approach and involves a detailed analysis of the documentation that universities have produced in relation to climate change, supported by a critical discourse analysis and interviews with key actors in universities' climate change response. All universities in Aotearoa New Zealand were found to be mobilising in response to climate change, with targets set for reducing emissions, plans developed, and work programmes underway. These targets are not limited to decarbonization but include ambitions to embed sustainability values across teaching, research and campus life. While these climate change responses contain positive and aspirational narratives grounded in indigenous values, the primary discourses perpetuate neoliberal ideas of reconciliation that suggest no radical change is needed. Universities are further constrained by the impacts of neoliberalism and their need to financially survive within an unsustainable economic paradigm. The research concludes that it seems unlikely that transformational change will be led by universities in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Responding to climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand: Universities, neoliberalism and narratives of change

Lomas,

Bond

2024

N Z Geog

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The Institutional ‘Success’ of the CoFoE via the ‘New Generation’ Citizen Panels: The European Commission Leads the Public-Private ‘Citizen Turn’

Oleart

2023

Democracy Without Politics in EU Citizen Participation

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Data Scaling: Implications for Climate Action and Governance in the UK

Sudmant

2024

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Local actors have growing prominence in climate governance but key capacities and powers remain with national policymakers. Coordination between national and local climate action is therefore of increasing importance. Underappreciated in existing academic and policy literature, coordination between actors at different scales can be affected not only by politics and institutional arrangements, but also by methods of data analysis. Exploring two datasets of GHG emissions by local area in England—one of consumption-based emissions and the other of territorial emissions—this paper shows the potential for a data scaling problem known as the modifiable areal unit problem and its possible consequences for the efficacy and equity implications of climate action. While this analysis is conceptual and does not identify specific instances of the modifiable areal unit problem or its consequences, it calls attention to methods of data analysis as possible contributors to climate governance challenges. Among other areas, future analysis is needed to explore how data scaling and other aspects of data processing and analysis may affect our understanding of non-state actors’ contribution to climate action.

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Whose system, what change? A critical political economy approach to the UK climate movement

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Responding to climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand: Universities, neoliberalism and narratives of change

Responding to climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand: Universities, neoliberalism and narratives of change

The Institutional ‘Success’ of the CoFoE via the ‘New Generation’ Citizen Panels: The European Commission Leads the Public-Private ‘Citizen Turn’

Data Scaling: Implications for Climate Action and Governance in the UK

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