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Contradiction, intervention, and urban low carbon transitions.
- Source :
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Environment & Planning D: Society & Space . Jun2015, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p460-476. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- This paper presents an analysis of contradictions in urban low carbon transitions as engines of change. Following Kojève's reading of contradiction in Hegel's oeuvre, I argue that contradiction is a constitutive feature of low carbon interventions. This is an alternative to conventional readings of contradiction as a provisional encounter of opposites in which one will eventually cancel out the other. I unpack the concept of contra diction in three ways: first, by displaying a Hegelian-inspired understanding of contradiction in relation to change, time, and desire; second, by explaining how inherent contradictions can also be read in relation to the excesses that characterize the deployment of methods of calculation in low carbon interventions; and third, by situating these contradictions within the overall dynamics of carbon governance and purposive attempts to bring about a low carbon transition. The paper explores the practical implications of this analysis in a case of low carbon interventions in social housing in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The case study shows that, if contradictions are at the heart of low carbon interventions, contradiction analysis may provide a direction towards broader reconfigurations of social and technological practices and generate a desire to change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *EMISSION control
*CARBON offsetting
*CLIMATE change
*ENVIRONMENTAL policy
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02637758
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Environment & Planning D: Society & Space
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 108752011
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1068/d13050p