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Who's afraid of the ecological apocalypse? Climate change and the production of the ethical subject
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Fagan, Madeleine (2017) Who's afraid of the ecological apocalypse? Climate change and the production of the ethical subject. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19 (2). pp. 225-244. doi:10.1177/1369148116687534
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148116687534
Abstract
Contemporary representations of environmental futures often feature disastrous, apocalyptic and catastrophic scenarios, particularly in film and popular culture. One site in which this representation is prominent is in the climate change debate, where such narratives in relation to the environment can be found not only in popular culture, but also governmental statements (Brown, 2009; Huhne, 2011; King, 2004; Obama, 2010; Stern, 2006) and academic literature produced by Politics and International Relations (Caney, 2010; Dobson, 1999; Gardiner, 2009; Garvey, 2008; Hiskes, 2005; Page, 2007). Whilst disastrous scenarios are of course not new in the construction of political and ethical possibilities, the climate change debate has arguably occasioned an intensification of such scenarios and an increased interlacing of them into political and ethical narratives - to the extent that Mike Hulme (2006) argues that recent years have seen the birth of a 'new environmental phenomenon' of 'catastrophic climate change'. However, despite the ubiquity of such dire warnings, they seem to have motivated relatively little action by citizens on climate matters (Hulme, 2009).
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences J Political Science > JZ International relations |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Environmental disasters -- Moral and ethical aspects , Ethics, Climatic changes, International relations, Political science | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Politics and International Relations | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1369-1481 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 May 2017 | ||||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 December 2016 | ||||||||
| Volume: | 19 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 225-244 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1369148116687534 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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