Disaster Making in the Capitalocene

IF 3.9 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environmental Politics Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI:10.1162/glep_a_00655

S. O’Lear, Francis Massé, Hannah Dickinson, R. Duffy

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Abstract

Abstract We live in a new normal of increasing, crosscutting, and shifting patterns of disasters fueled by large-scale environmental change, from floods to wildfires to pandemics. Our intervention in this forum piece makes the case that disasters, and responses to disasters, must be understood within the context of the global political-economic system of capitalism. We situate disasters, their making, and their politics within the Capitalocene and argue that disasters and the physical processes that underpin them are not natural: they are unevenly produced through, and exacerbated by, processes inherent in the capitalist system, with uneven consequences. We suggest that the predominantly technomanagerial approaches to disasters pursued within the neoliberal state and multilateral governance institution system reveal the tensions in addressing the causes of environmental change and the new normal of disasters under capitalism. We argue that through an engagement with the Capitalocene, environmental politics could further contribute to nuanced, critical understandings of disasters and their making in ways that foreground their in/justice implications.

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新世的灾难制造

摘要我们生活在一种新常态中，从洪水到野火再到流行病，大规模环境变化引发了灾难模式的增加、交叉和变化。我们在本论坛文章中的干预表明，必须在资本主义的全球政治经济体系的背景下理解灾害和对灾害的反应。我们将灾难、灾难的产生和灾难的政治置于Capitalocene内部，并认为灾难和支撑灾难的物理过程不是自然的：它们是通过资本主义制度固有的过程不均衡地产生的，并因其而加剧，后果不均衡。我们认为，在新自由主义国家和多边治理机构体系中，以技术管理为主的灾难处理方法揭示了在解决环境变化原因和资本主义下灾难新常态方面的紧张关系。我们认为，通过与Capitalocene的接触，环境政治可以进一步有助于对灾难及其产生的微妙、批判性的理解，从而突出其对司法的影响。

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Global Environmental Politics Multiple-

CiteScore

7.40

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： Global Environmental Politics examines the relationship between global political forces and environmental change, with particular attention given to the implications of local-global interactions for environmental management as well as the implications of environmental change for world politics. Each issue is divided into research articles and a shorter forum articles focusing on issues such as the role of states, multilateral institutions and agreements, trade, international finance, corporations, science and technology, and grassroots movements.