Governing the Climate

The first volume on critical social and political studies of climate change for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.

Introduction Johannes Stripple and Harriet Bulkeley; Part I. Governmentality, Critical Theory and Climate Change: 1. Bringing governmentality to the study of global governance Eva Lövbrand and Johannes Stripple; 2. Experimenting on climate governmentality with actor-network theory Anders Blok; 3. Third side of the coin: hegemony and governmentality in global climate politics Benjamin Stephan, Delf Rothe and Chris Methman; 4. The limits of climate governmentality Carl Death; Part II. Cases of Climate Government: Theorising Practice: 5. Neuro-liberal climatic governmentalities Marc Whitehead, Rhys Jones and Jessica Pykett; 6. Making carbon calculations Sally Eden; 7. Smart meters and the governance of energy use in the household Tom Hargreaves; 8. Translation loops and shifting rationalities of transnational bioenergy governance Jarmo Kortelainen and Moritz Albrecht; 9. Governing mobile species in a climate-changed world Juliet J. Fall; 10. Measuring forest carbon Heather Lovell; 11. Climate security as governmentality: from precaution to preparedness Angela Oels; Part III. Future Directions: 12. The rise and fall of the global climate polity Olaf Corry; 13. Climate change multiple Samuel Randalls; 14. Reflections and way forward Harriet Bulkeley and Johannes Stripple.