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Fagan, Madeleine (2023) The paradox of anthropocene inaction : knowledge production, mobilization, and the securitization of social relations. International Political Sociology, 17 (1). olad002. doi:10.1093/ips/olad002 ISSN 1749-5679.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olad002
Abstract
This article argues that the Anthropocene produces a paradox when thinking about political mobilization. I show how the knowledge production practices that render the Anthropocene visible and actionable, including planetary boundaries, Earth System Science modeling of earth systems, and geological strata, also circulate a security rationality. This rationality is one that attempts to manage, co-opt, or productively direct processes of becoming, which limits possibilities for mobilization. A lens that assumes political mobilization is a function of increased knowledge, understanding, and evidence contributes to this problem. By starting instead with an understanding of possibilities for mobilization as emerging from social relations, the article highlights the way in which the security rationality circulated by Anthropocene knowledge production risks transforming those social relations into security relations. Netting the planet and the human together through the practices of calculation and representation that make the Anthropocene visible produces a decontextualized, disaggregated, and dispersed subject and so limits possibilities for collective political mobilization.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Geology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropocene -- Political aspects, Climatic changes -- Political aspects, Environmentalism -- Political aspects, Human ecology -- Political aspects, Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Political aspects | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Political Sociology | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1749-5679 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 17 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | olad002 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/ips/olad002 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 November 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 February 2023 | ||||||||
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