Navigating transformations: Climate change and international law

IF 1.3 2区 社会学 Q1 LAW
Laura Mai
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Abstract

The global climate crisis response envisioned by the Paris Agreement is commonly understood as demanding transformative change. International law, however, lacks a holistic conceptual framing for making sense of what such change would entail, how it might unfold, and who and what it will involve. Moreover, there has been little critical engagement with the question of what is at stake when invoking the notion of transformation. Contributing to the broader debate about what the climate crisis demands of international law, this article offers a critical conceptual appraisal of the notion of ‘transformation’. Conceptually, it describes transformative dynamics as processes which work towards radically different states of affairs that seem practically impossible under the status quo, but which could arguably be realized if different conditions were in place. Developing an ontology of transformative change, the article identifies heterogenous temporality, the actualization of impossible possibilities, and distributed engagement as three central features of transformations in climate crisis. Having laid the conceptual groundwork, the article then takes a critical turn and foregrounds unresolved tensions that run through transformation thinking. The aim here is to connect to critical discourses and show how these tensions can serve as entry points for international law to meaningfully engage with the notion of transformation. The article closes by offering some reflections on what engagement with the notion of transformation might mean for international law’s disciplinary identity, rationale, and sense of purpose.
驾驭变革:气候变化与国际法
巴黎协定》所设想的全球气候危机应对措施通常被理解为需要变革。然而,国际法缺乏一个整体的概念框架来理解这种变革会带来什么、如何展开、涉及哪些人和哪些事。此外,在援引变革概念时,很少有人批判性地探讨利害攸关的问题。本文对 "转变 "概念进行了批判性的概念评估,为有关气候危机对国际法的要求的更广泛辩论做出了贡献。从概念上讲,它将变革动力描述为努力实现根本不同状态的过程,在现状下,这些状态似乎实际上是不可能的,但如果有不同的条件,这些状态可以说是可以实现的。文章发展了转型变革的本体论,指出异质时间性、不可能的可能性的实现以及分布式参与是气候危机中转型的三个核心特征。在奠定了概念基础之后,文章转而进行批判,强调了贯穿变革思维的尚未解决的紧张关系。这里的目的是与批判性论述联系起来,说明这些紧张关系如何能够作为国际法的切入点,有意义地参与到转型概念中来。文章最后就参与转型概念可能对国际法的学科特性、基本原理和目的感意味着什么提出了一些思考。
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