Technopolitical Regimes and Climate Change: A Transcript of an Interview with the Carbon Cycle

Author(s)Barnes, Philip
Date Accessioned2014-06-25T15:50:05Z
Date Available2014-06-25T15:50:05Z
Publication Date2014-05
AbstractDespite the urgent response that climate change demands, debate over climate change policy goes round and round without showing signs that it can rest long enough for action to be taken. Meanwhile, the situation with the atmospheric commons continues to deteriorate. In a desperate attempt to constructively contribute to the climate change debate and break through the morass, this paper engages with Act or Network Theory which affords practitioners the freedom to dialogue with the non-human. The result is a transcription of an interview with The Carbon Cycle. Using the concept of the technopolitical regime, The Carbon Cycle identifies two broadly defined philosophies that humans use to frame climate change policy. The two technopolitical regimes, what The Carbon Cycle calls the Interventionists and the Egalitarians, are informed by conflicting values. According to The Carbon Cycle, humans will need to face the difficult challenge of negotiating a policy response to climate change that lies somewhere between the interventionist and the egalitarian strategies. Depending on the policy approach taken, the implications for society-nature relationships and democratic governance are radically different and are teased out in this conversation.en_US
CitationBarnes, P. (2014, May). Technopolitical Regimes and Climate Change: A Transcript of an Interview with the Carbon Cycle. New Visions for Public Affairs, 6, 31-40.en_US
URLhttp://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/13073
Languageen_USen_US
PublisherNew Vision for Public Affairsen_US
KeywordsClimate changeen_US
KeywordsCarbon Cycle, Theen_US
KeywordsTechnopolitical regimeen_US
KeywordsActor Network Theoryen_US
TitleTechnopolitical Regimes and Climate Change: A Transcript of an Interview with the Carbon Cycleen_US
TypeArticleen_US
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