Emily Boyd
Professor, Docent
An emerging governmentality of climate change loss and damage
Author
Summary, in English
Loss and damage is the “third pillar” of international climate governance alongside mitigation and adaptation. When mitigation and adaptation fail, losses and damages occur. Scholars have been reacting to international political discourse centred around governing actual or potential severe losses and damages from climate change. Large gaps exist in relation to understanding the underlying power dimensions, rationalities, knowledges, and technologies of loss and damage governance and science. We draw from a Foucauldian-inspired governmentality framework to argue there is an emerging governmentality of loss and damage. We find, among other things, that root causes of loss and damage are being obscured, Western knowledge and technocratic interventions are centred, and there are colonial presupposed subjectivities of Global South victims of climate change, which are being contested by people bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. We propose future directions for critical research on climate change loss and damage.
Department/s
- LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
- LU Profile Area: Nature-based future solutions
Publishing year
2023-01-11
Language
English
Pages
33-57
Publication/Series
Progress in Environmental Geography
Volume
2
Issue
1-2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Topic
- Human Geography
- Climate Research
Keywords
- Climate governmentality
- loss and damage
- power
- rationality
- subjectivities
- UNFCCC
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2753-9687