Haste: The slow politics of climate urgency
Edited by Håvard Haarstad, Jakob Grandin, Kristin Kjærås and Eleanor Johnson
UCL Press, 2023
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What does it mean politically to construct climate change as a matter of urgency? We are certainly running out of time to stop climate change. But perhaps this particular understanding of urgency could be at the heart of the problem. When in haste, we make more mistakes, we overlook things, we get tunnel vision. Here we make the case for a ‘slow politics of urgency’. Rather than rushing and speeding up, the sustainable future is arguably better served by us challenging the dominant framings through which we understand time and change in society. Transformation to meet the climate challenge requires multiple temporalities of change, speeding up certain types of change processes but also slowing things down.
While recognizing the need for certain types of urgency in climate politics, Haste directs attention to the different and alternative temporalities at play in climate and sustainability politics. It addresses several key issues on climate urgency: How do we accommodate concerns that are undermined by the politics of urgency, such as participation and justice? How do we act upon the urgency of the climate challenge without reproducing the problems that speeding up of social processes has brought? What do the slow politics of urgency look like in practice? Divided into 23 short and accessible chapters, written by both established and emerging scholars from different disciplines, Haste tackles a major problem in contemporary climate change research and offers creative perspectives on pathways out of the climate emergency.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Why the haste? Introduction to the slow politics of climate urgency
Håvard Haarstad, Jakob Grandin, Kristin Kjærås and Eleanor Johnson
Part I: Climate apocalypse and radical utopias
‘The apocalypse is disappointing’: traversing the ecological fantasy
Erik Swyngedouw
From architectures of capital to architectures of care: the arts of dreaming otherwise in the Oslo Architecture Triennale
Cecilie Sachs Olsen
Extinction Rebellion and the future city
Emma Arnold
The urgency of hope and responses to contemporary crises
Marikken Wullf-Wathne and Kristin Kjærås
Part II: Learning the politics of urgency
Negation, imagination and organisation: rethinking sustainability transitions as a question of popular education
Keri Facer
‘Right here, right now’: immediacy, space and publicness in the politics of climate crisis
Eugene McCann
Carefully transforming our institutions: how they change, how they listen
Scott Bremer and Eleanor Johnson
Experimenting with ecological civilisation on the ground: the green transformation of a resource-based city in China
Ping Huang and Xiaohui Hu
Part III: Countering alienation under rapid change
The good, the bad and the beautiful? The role of aesthetics in low-carbon consumption
Jesse Schrage
Sustainability from the ground: urban gardening with children as means to environmental change
Sofia Cele
Refashioning the supercyclical city
Eleanor Johnson
Environmental injustices unfold in urban sustainability projects in Istanbul
Mahir Yazar
Inclusive sustainability: gaming as a tool for participation in urgent planning
Tarje I. Wanvik and Håvard H. Bjørnstad
Part IV: Contesting the speed of urban change
Small measures, large change: the promise and peril of incremental urbanisation
Andrew Karvonen and Jonas Bylund
Make way for efficiency: sustainable mobility and the politics of speed
Jakob Grandin
The geography of the ‘world’s greenest cities’: a class-based critique
Ståle Holgersen
Climate imaginaries for urgent urban transformations
Håvard Haarstad
Part V: Temporalities of infrastructural change
Periphery everywhere
AbdouMaliq Simone
Reimagining urban innovation
Matthew Cook
Promises and contradictions of digital sustainability in the post-pandemic city
Chiara Certomà
People’s Republic of Energy: rethinking the possible in energy futures
Hannah Knox, Jonathan Atkinson and Britt Jurgensen
Solar spectacles: why Lisbon’s solar projects matter for energy transformation
Siddharth Sareen
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