Ephemera May 2012: The atmosphere business |
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ephemera: theory & politics in organization
volume 12, number 1/2 The atmosphere business Issue editors: Steffen Böhm, Anna-Maria Murtola and Sverre Spoelstra The contributions collected in this special issue of ephemera question the underlying ideologies and assumptions of carbon markets, and bring to light many of the contradictions and antagonisms that are currently at the heart of ‘climate capitalism’. They offer a critical assessment of the political economy of carbon trading, and a detailed understanding of how these newly created markets are designed, how they (don’t) work, the various actors that are involved, and how these actors function together to create and contest the ‘atmosphere business’. In 5 notes, 6 articles, 1 interview and 3 book reviews, some of the most prominent critical voices in debates about the atmosphere business are brought together in this special issue.
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Table of contents:
editorial The atmosphere business Steffen Böhm, Anna-Maria Murtola and Sverre Spoelstra notes Privatising the atmosphere: A solution or dangerous con? Mike Childs Carbon markets after Durban Oscar Reyes A dark art: Field notes on carbon capture and storage policy negotiations at COP17 Gökçe Günel Durban’s conference of polluters, market failure and critic failure Patrick Bond The people’s climate summit in Cochabamba: A tragedy in three acts Tadzio Mueller interview Critiquing carbon markets: A conversation Larry Lohmann and Steffen Böhm articles Capitalizing on chaos: Climate change and disaster capitalism Robert Fletcher The prey of uncertainty: Climate change as opportunity Jerome Whitington Carbon classified? Unpacking heterogeneous relations inscribed into corporate carbon emissions Ingmar Lippert A colonial mechanism to enclose lands: A critical review of two REDD+-focused special issues Joanna Cabello and Tamra Gilbertson Mapping REDD in the Asia-Pacific: Governance, marketisation and contention Rebecca Pearse Planting trees through the Clean Development Mechanism: A critical assessment Esteve Corbera and Charlotte Friedli reviews The ‘third way’ for climate action Siddhartha Dabhi Carbon trading in South Africa: Plus ça change? Peter Newell Can capitalism survive climate change? David L. Levy www.ephemeraweb.org |