Towards a climate-resilient America? Tracing climate-resilient nationhoods in US climate politics

IF 2.2 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

SPACE AND POLITY Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/13562576.2022.2063715

Andrew Telford

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT Exploring connections between climate resilience and national identity under the Obama and Trump presidencies, this paper argues that discourses of climate-resilient American nationhood constitute an intersection of neoliberalism, populism and immunopolitics. Under Obama, a climate-resilient America is an adaptive subject that embraces climate-insecure futures; under Trump, the anti-climate resilient national subject is a ‘frankenstein neoliberal’ [Brown, W. (2018). Neoliberalism’s Frankenstein: Authoritarian freedom in twenty-first century “democracies”. Critical Times, 1(1), 60–79. https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-1.1.60] identity grounded in white supremacism. For both of these subjects, albeit in radically different ways, climate-resilient nationhood acts as an immunopolitical drive for self-preservation: a resilient American subject adapts to climate insecurities at the expense of those demarcated as non-adaptive and non-resilient.

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走向一个适应气候变化的美国?追踪美国气候政治中的气候适应型国家

本文探讨了奥巴马和特朗普总统任期内气候适应能力与国家认同之间的联系，认为气候适应能力的美国国家身份话语构成了新自由主义、民粹主义和免疫政治的交集。在奥巴马的领导下，一个适应气候变化的美国是一个适应的主题，它拥抱气候不安全的未来;在特朗普的领导下，反气候弹性的国家主体是一个“弗兰肯斯坦的新自由主义者”[Brown, W.(2018)]。新自由主义的弗兰肯斯坦:21世纪“民主国家”的专制自由。关键时刻，1(1)，60-79。https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-1.1.60]建立在白人至上主义基础上的身份。对于这两个主体来说，尽管方式截然不同，但具有气候适应性的国家身份是一种自我保护的免疫政治动力:具有气候适应性的美国主体以牺牲那些被划分为非适应性和非适应性的主体为代价来适应气候不安全。

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SPACE AND POLITY GEOGRAPHY-

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4.10

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4.20%

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期刊介绍： Space & Polity is a fully refereed scholarly international journal devoted to the theoretical and empirical understanding of the changing relationships between the state, and regional and local forms of governance. The journal provides a forum aimed particularly at bringing together social scientists currently working in a variety of disciplines, including geography, political science, sociology, economics, anthropology and development studies and who have a common interest in the relationships between space, place and politics in less developed as well as the advanced economies.